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The conversion crusade: Competing for people’s souls

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 24, 2015Leave a comment

Free India was born in a tumult of religious hatred. This, and the fact that this country is home to followers of almost every major religion, persuaded members of the Constituent Assembly to exercise great care to protect the freedom of religious belief in the Constitution.

Public dissent and debate are robustly expressed in India

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 23, 2015Leave a comment

The fractures around the fault-lines of ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ in India have again threatened to surface after the release of the 2011 religious census results.

Protect our children, they are living on the edge

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 22, 2015Leave a comment

Three merciless rapes of small children within a week in the country’s national capital, followed by the gruesome burning alive of two children in a village in Faridabad, have once again raised, with painful urgency, the question of how we can make the world safer for disadvantaged and defenceless young children.

Neglect and abuse: The reality of India’s elderly people

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 21, 2015Leave a comment

We often assume that our greatest dangers are from strangers on dark streets or from violent men who might break into our houses.

Modi government: one year of dismantling the welfare state

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 20, 2015Leave a comment

A dominant feature of the first year of Narendra Modi’s leadership is the quiet dismantling of India’s imperfectly realised framework of welfare and rights, covertly, by stealth.

Many degrees of hopelessness in India’s villages

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 19, 2015Leave a comment

The picture of rural Indian life today that emerges from what is probably the world’s largest study ever of household deprivation is sobering and sombre.

Is the govt threatening to dismantle National Food Security Act?

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 18, 2015Leave a comment

It is troubling that the Centre has displayed a casual disregard for laws and court rulings that create a framework of statutory social rights for protecting the vulnerable.

India has become a more unequal society than any other time in its recent history

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 17, 2015Leave a comment

Two most formidable challenges that will engage the peoples and governments of all countries on the planet during the 21st century will be the ways in which they handle inequality and deal with diversity. Historically, India has culturally sanctioned inequalities of gender, caste and class more than any other ancient civilisation.

IMA needs to introspect on state of private medical services

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 16, 2015Leave a comment

School textbooks in recent decades have frequently become battlegrounds for ideological contestation in India. Most textbook wars are to advance majoritarian perspectives on history and culture.

For an idealistic young civil servant it’s a lonely battle

Hindustan Times 2015By harsh_userDecember 15, 2015Leave a comment

The country is both riveted and moved by the extraordinary outpouring of public support, solidarity and goodwill by ordinary people for young IAS officer DK Ravi, found hanging from the ceiling fan in his official apartment.

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