The Citizenship law, which pretended to be a humanitarian exercise, became a parochial, communal act exposing the cosmopolitan pretensions of the BJP.
Shiv Visvanathan
Editor
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A quick history of each of these people makes you wonder at the sanitisation of evil, of how quickly violence and war can be forgotten, writes sociologist Shiv Visvanathan.
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The idea of minority as a category evokes representation, number in stereotyped ways.
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The little Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thornburg has an ethical startup. A child talking climate change. Telling truth to power is an ethical startup, a Jesuit philosopher told the writer.
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The High Court’s decision on Daryaganj was not an act of civic hygiene or crowd control but a sheer cleansing of memory.
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I hope you don’t mind the temerity of this letter. It is written as one scholar to another, one citizen to another...I was aghast to find that Doctor Binayak Sen has been given a life term for sedition...
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