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Weaponising Religious Festivals to Foment Religious Disharmony and Polarisation

India, Dec. 29 -- The manipulation of religious festivals to foment hatred and provoke communal violence has been a strategy employed by certain right-wing political forces in India for many years. Si... Read More


New Year, Old Justice Abandoning the Vulnerable

India, Dec. 29 -- The new year is around the corner. By the time this piece is read, many of us will be bracing for the first dawn of the new calendar. Some might have already made their way to the hi... Read More


No Rest, Even in Death Christians in India and the Violence at the Graveside

India, Dec. 29 -- On December 15, 2025, in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, a province in the central part of India, the father of Rajman Salam, an elected sarpanch (village headman), was buried accordi... Read More


Depriving Social Justice, Furthering Ideology

India, Dec. 29 -- Renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) into the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural) Bill, dubbed "G RAM G" an... Read More


In the Land of Tagore, Vivekananda, and Gandhi, Freedom of Religion is Under Attack

India, Dec. 29 -- India is fortunate to have given birth to Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and Mahatma Gandhi, who inspired generations not only in India but across the world. Apart from thei... Read More


The Fire of Rationality

India, Dec. 29 -- In the thundering storm of ignorance and fear, Rose a voice, fierce and clear-Periyar, the seer. A flame against the darkness, a sword against the lie, He challenged the shadows that... Read More


Lekhi 1978: Eyewitness to Arunachal's First Christmas

India, Dec. 29 -- I was all of 25 years old and assigned to report on the first Christmas scheduled to be celebrated near the administrative capital at Naharlagun. On Monday, December 25, 1978, the qu... Read More


The Stones Cried Out

India, Dec. 29 -- The instruction came the moment I climbed into the van. "Father, go back and change," my brother said, hands on the steering wheel. "Jeans and a T-shirt. Casuals." It wasn't a sugg... Read More


Fear Not

India, Dec. 29 -- I love the national anthem. You do not question it. You stand up, straighten your back, look noble and sing it with more enthusiasm than talent. I have sung it in school halls, dusty... Read More


Christmas Began When Rome Counted Wrong

India, Dec. 22 -- In the second year of his reign, Caesar Augustus decided the world needed to be counted. Every person, every household, registered and taxed-a grand bureaucratic dream of control dre... Read More