The Modi government’s action might be geopolitically pragmatic, but it will end up unleashing even more toxic competition between Hindu and Muslim religious nationalists.
On 29 May, during a meeting of Muslim bodies in Deoband, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind attacked the ruling BJP for playing divisive politics and reminded it of India's Constitution.
Affiliation drive, says Uttarakhand minister, is being pursued 'mainly to improve the quality of education in these institutions… should not be seen from political lens.
In ‘Claiming Citizenship and Nation’, Aishwarya Pandit writes that Congress workers in UP felt betrayed by their ‘anti-Hindu’ leaders and started drifting to RSS, Hindu Mahasabha.
The Pakistan PM held a discussion on ‘Islam, society and ethical values’. It didn’t address why the Muslim world lags behind on all social and economic development indicators.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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