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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicRight-wing

Topic: Right-wing

‘Excuse to destroy our people’: Far Right groups weaponise coronavirus to further their agenda

Several extremist groups, worldwide, have employed both conspiracy theories and calls for targeted violence against communities to push their Far Right ideologies.

Stretching the Overton Window from Amit Shah to Shaheen Bagh

If we didn’t have Shaheen Bagh, the centre for a populist like Arvind Kejriwal would have been further on the Right.

No soft Hindutva, no Left Revolution, Kejriwal establishing a new centre in Indian politics

If Arvind Kejriwal's pragmatic soft-nationalism does well in Delhi election, then it will offer a template for national and regional politics to counter the BJP’s rise.

Arnab Goswami, stop attacking JLF. It’s not just a political platform for lost Lutyens souls

Republic TV's recent 'debate' on Jaipur Lit Fest was a one-sided, vicious attack on an event that is a hugely successful demonstration of India’s soft power.

For free-thinking JNU, lack of diversity in faculty, students, courses has been a curse

During its formative years, faculty appointments at JNU were made keeping in mind the candidate’s Left leanings. Over time, this didn’t serve JNU well.

Sanjay Hegde can return to Twitter if he deletes ‘objectionable’ post, but he won’t

Hegde’s Twitter account has been blocked twice since Saturday over an iconic 1936 photo of Nazi Germany and for sharing a poem titled ‘Hang Him’.

India’s Right-wing doesn’t mind different voices within. That’s what separates it from Left

Pondy Lit Fest organiser disagrees with Abhijit Iyer-Mitra’s observation that India’s Right needs a ‘binding glue’ to take on narratives set by the Left.

Pondy Lit Fest shows India’s Right-wing has more disagreements within

The 2nd edition of Pondy Lit Fest, attended by leading Right-wing figures like Swapan Dasgupta, Kanchan Gupta and Tavleen Singh, saw huge on-stage fights.

New study reveals people on the Left and Right are more similar than they think

Extremity in either direction can lead us to see the world in black and white, and forget to appreciate those crucial shades of grey in between.

Why Right-wingers and lapsed liberals hate Romila Thapar, the mother of history in India

The dislike for Romila Thapar is embedded in belief that Left-liberal monopoly on scholarship has denied Hindus their rightful place in history.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.