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Monthly Archives: October 2016

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‘If Sardarji had been alive…’ How anti-Sikh lynch mobs changed Lachmi’s life on October 31, 1984

Scroll 2016By harsh_userOctober 31, 2016Leave a comment

It would be hard to find a building more burdened with suffering and memory in all of Delhi. And yet, if you walked past it, you would hardly turn your head to look at it again. There was nothing that distinguished it from the tens of thousands of other urban cages anywhere in the country.

Secularism unbound The book raises important questions and compiles numerous views and contestations

Business Standard 2016By harsh_userOctober 25, 2016Leave a comment

SECULARISM India at a Crossroads Madhav Godbole Rupa 441 pages; Rs 995 Madhav Godbole was a civil servant of standing who held several responsible official positions, including that of the Union home secretary.

When an investment banker and an MIT graduate lived like India’s poor on $0.39 a day

Quartz India 2016By harsh_userOctober 24, 2016Leave a comment

Tushar, the son of a police officer in Haryana, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for three years as an investment banker in the United States and Singapore. Matt migrated as a teenager to the United States with his parents, and studied at MIT.

What living below the poverty line taught an investment banker and an MIT grad

Scroll 2016By harsh_userOctober 19, 2016Leave a comment

Tushar, the son of a police officer in Haryana, studied at University of Pennsylvania and worked for three years as an investment banker in the United States and Singapore. Matt migrated as a teenager to the United States with his parents, and studied in MIT.

Scriptwriters Were the True Stars of Hindi Cinema in 2016

The Wire 2016By harsh_userOctober 15, 2016Leave a comment

In a singularly sombre year for the Indian people, Hindi cinema offered some bright sparks in 2016. Some thoughtful, creative and inventive films with unusual themes and real people, were on offer.

Rather than fighting for those displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots, it appears to be parroting majoritarian, communal stereotyping.

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userOctober 5, 2016Leave a comment

It is highly unfortunate that the NHRC report plays into the communal stereotype that dates back to Partition — of Muslim young men sexually harassing Hindu girls.

Muzaffarnagar riots: ‘We had been brothers until yesterday. Where did this hatred come from?’

Scroll 2016By harsh_userOctober 5, 2016Leave a comment

All of 19 years old, Raheem’s voice was steady as he spoke about the uprooting, betrayal and loss his family endured during the communal violence which swept the districts of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli in Uttar Pradesh in 2013.