Down the ages, a natural tolerance—tinged with faith—has been our subsoil. Why do my friends foist a dry import like secularism upon this rootedness?
Ashis Nandy
Editor
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Hate has become respectable now. But Savarkar and Jinnah had understood this maxim long ago.
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Terror, as the tool of despair or virtue, has ruled our world order
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Politics has blunted the edge of his ideology, making him less dangerous
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Cricket’s newest fall noted, the IPL row will limp off sated TV screens
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Democracy’s new torchbearers would brook no lenience to ‘sedition’
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Absolution for Modi? Maybe a visit to the Ajmer dargah could help.
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Bal Thackeray played a game of violent juvenile pranks as politics
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Muslims see in Asaduddin Owaisi a leader who can fight the BJP on their own terms. Some of that goes back to a historical fact that shadows the AIMIM faintly: its old umbilical links with the Razakars
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The sly interplay between idealism and ideology keeps excess at bay. In these times of ‘total politics’ in India—characterised by a jam-spread of hatred that leaves isolated, targeted individuals meekly facing a gargantuan State—that healthy mutual vigil has been summarily suspended.
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