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My column this month in @Mint_Lounge looks at the intertwined legacies of two of the greatest Bengalis who ever lived, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, in the context of a collection of Tagore's stories elegantly translated by Sharmistha Mohanty. @livemint
https://x.com/somakghoshal/status/1918507921735901441?t=eLudg7LK7oudVWeA8eOLEA&s=19
A must read for anyone interested to know the diverse culture and civilizational roots of Bharat. An authentic account, easy reading, without being pedantic, by a discerning observer Kishen singh Chawda, who served under various Rajas in the early part of 20th century.
https://x.com/pawangupt/status/1917947804246499711?t=ezAmLEp46ujSk2V8R1VHtg&s=19
"Svayambodha and Shatrubodha: Hindu View of Self and the World" by Pankaj Saxena is a profound and essential read for every Hindu. This book serves as a vital toolkit, not just for understanding Hindu philosophy but for preserving and strengthening one’s identity in today’s world. Pre-order your copy here: amazon.in/dp/9365473799
https://x.com/sangamtalks/status/1918591493121490955?t=4_KUcHZqFdTUhjgM8LadIw&s=19
#Podcast | In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Sanjana Meshram and Aditya Rawat discussing conservation law in India and how it perpetuates Brahminical environmentalism.
https://x.com/epw_in/status/1918614083697328410?t=IVgZ10GK5GftBQ5-TDZqBA&s=19
[PDF] EXAMINING THE POLITICAL GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE COUNTRY
VB Hans - Al-Shodhana, 2025
… Expressions that indicate support for Hindutva, secularism, and religious beliefs have been marked by voters. It is inevitable that this will prove to be a significant barrier to the success of the democratic process. At the expense of another religion …
[PDF] SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACED BY INDIAN MUSLIMS IN THE MODI ERA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
W Ali, A Alam - ASSAJ, 2025
… of Hindutva. The party leveraged emotional rhetoric to promote the vision of transforming India into a state primarily for Hindus, rooted in a vision of a historically conservative, patriarchal, and ethnically and religiously homogenous past (Stanley …
Book review: Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection, Critical Thought from the Global South
MS Visakh
… religion of Hinduism as a normalized version of Hindutva and Brahmanism. She cites how the … state on religious matters as the roots of the Hindutva project and not its antecedents. On the … Further, Menon’s identification of Hindutva as primarily …
Untangling Colonial Knots: Reflecting on Arghya Sengupta's, the Colonial Constitution-An Origin Story (Juggernaut: 2023)
A Rawat - CALJ, 2025
… the possibility of a Hindutva constitutional imagination. His core thesis for this chapter is that there was no Hindutva-based alternative to the … it endorsed secularism and equal citizenship against the fundamental principles of Hindutva …
[HTML] Is There an Unholy Collusion Between Science and Religion in India? Interrogating Meera Nanda, of the Five Horse Angels
P Bilimoria - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2025
A Mahābhārata kind of textual war has been raging between science (the sciences) and religion (theology and traditional ortho-doxastic systems), for some time now, let us say since the Renaissance period, through Europe’s Enlightenment, to the …
[HTML] RESEARCH MATRIX-2321 7073
RS Patel
… It delves into the rise of Hindutva as a political and social movement, which has significantly influenced the national discourse on religious identity and secularism. The paper also investigates the implications of Hindu nationalism for religious …
[HTML] Khalistan-Zindabad
B Singh
… This minority seeks to create a uniform, stratified caste-based culture, spearheaded with exorbitant fidelity by its Hindutva ideologues. Not necessarily a Sikh voice but a respected historian in the Indian eyes, Kushwant Singh, elucidates …
'Declaration of Faith' and Dissenting Dalit Voices: Two Conflicting Narratives of Lived Religion among Christian Youth in Andhra
AK Mocherla - International Journal of Asian Christianity, 2025
This essay attempts to critically examine the idea of ‘declaration of faith’ in the contemporary South Indian social context, primarily to analyze and bring forth new patterns of social conflict between ‘believed religion’ and ‘lived religion’ in the …
Gender, Women and the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977
G Scott - 2025
… the historical trajectory between these narratives and the gendered discourses of contemporary Hindutva ideologies. 28 This chapter's analysis of the narration of the Emergency is inextricably connected to these historical constructions of the gendered …
[PDF] Transforming Discourse, Driving Change: Gendered Nuclear Identities and the Soviet Union's Shift to Disarmament in the 1980s
L Zatsepina - Millennium, 2025
In the late 1980s, breaking with decades of aggressive nuclear armament, the Soviet Union changed the course of its nuclear policy to promoting arms control and reducing nuclear stockpiles. This significant policy shift requires examination to …
[PDF] The History of the Sen Dynasty of Nepal
NR Subba
My school taught me about Sen's history, but I didn't have the opportunity to compare and analyze it with life and the world. However, it requires time, dedication, study, and experience. I studied the Kirat Limbu culture; I also studied the genealogy of …
[HTML] Political masculinities: crisis, governance, and leadership in Imran Khan's UNGA speeches
R Salam-Salmaoui, S Salam - NORMA, 2025
This study examines how Imran Khan constructs his political masculinity in his 2019 and 2021 UNGA speeches, employing a rhetoric that intertwines Islamic morality, nationalist pride, and transnational justice. Using Hearn’s framework of political …
5 Gendering Energy
L Coupé - Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical …, 2025
Dalit autobiographies are trauma narratives that focus upon the oppression and exploitation suffered by a community. The narrator of Dalit life writing therefore assumes the role of a witness, whose memory and experience reveal subjects who …
[HTML] Merit in China and India: Comparatism Put to the Test
R Lardinois - 2025
1 The wealth of essays on merit and meritocracy is characterized by a double bias: the predominance of studies focusing on the Western world and the importance given to the United States—even if the French case, which is quite different, is not …
Bollywood and Cultural Contestation: Examination of Digital Mobilization Against the Hindi Film Industry
P Bhat, S Mitra, N Narayanamoorthy - Journal of International and Intercultural …, 2025
… For example, we found that numerous Hindutva activists called for the boycott of Bollywood star Akshay Kumar’s release Raksha Bandhan after an old video of the actor surfaced in which he is seen arguing in favor of donating to a charity rather …
Can we all mourn? The politics of mourning and loss
A Chakraborty - Critical Studies on Security, 2025
… Reactionary Hindutva politics have held parliamentary political power at the national level since 2014. The long trajectory of masculinism … The heterosexual, cis-masculine, violent tropes around which Hindutva imagines the future of Indian …
[HTML] “This will destroy Jeev and Jantu”: infrastructures of modernity across water, energy, and land in Jaisalmer, India
S Shokrgozar, A Naik, S Shrestha - Sustainability Science, 2025
In the context of contemporary socioecological crises brought about through the political ontology of colonial capitalism, concerns about planetary conditions and their mounting pervasive impacts continue. Recognizing the rejection of …
Caste-attentiveness
L Bahrainwala - Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2025
In this essay, I critique the field of communication studies and its lack of curiosity about caste as a framework, calling for caste-attentiveness in all critical/cultural scholarship. I reflect on the responses I received to a caste-attentive research talk I …
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