Friday, 30 September, 2022
TopicSecularism

Topic: secularism

Religion is holy – How 1971 made the case for secularism in Bangladesh and India

Neeti Nair -
The idea that Bangladeshi secularism was not opposed to the practice of religion had to be repeatedly explained to Muslim leaders abroad.

Can you beat Modi’s BJP? Not impossible, but only if you win back enough Hindu voters

Shekhar Gupta -
The future challenger to Modi will be somebody who can bring the Hindus and Muslims together again. The Hindus as Hindus, not broken caste groups.

‘Othered’ Muslim in Modi-BJP era: 3 essentials before mounting a political challenge to correct it

Shekhar Gupta -
If the BJP has unchallenged power, as it seems now, do they want one in seven Indians alienated because of their faith? At the very least, this would make for a very imperfect Indian democracy.

Secularism in India has turned into a cliché. It needs revival

Mondeep Borah -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Uddhav Thackeray’s failing trapeze act on secularism-Hindutva has lessons for other parties

+TFP Zainab Sikander -
The crisis in Shiv Sena shows the dilemma in Indian politics today — go the Hindutva way to compete with BJP or keep it Hindutva Lite like AAP or Hindutva Zero like TMC.

‘Zyada secular ho gaye ho’—Indians’ idea of secularism keeps pot boiling for Hindus, Muslims

Irfanullah Farooqi -
In 'Unmasking Indian Secularism', Irfanullah Farooqi, assistant professor at South Asian University, mentions how skewed 'secularism' is in India.

Communal harmony needs ‘sabka prayas’. Indian Muslims also have a part to play

Makarand R. Paranjape -
The best way forward from a crossroads such as the Ram Navami riots isn't victimhood or retaliation. It's reform, rationality and progress.

Secular Islamophobia: How Modi’s BJP bulldozed rivals’ imagination, left them scared to speak for Muslims

Shekhar Gupta -
BJP’s dominance has crushed political skills and imagination of its rivals into rubble. It’s made them Islamophobic in that they’d rather not identify with Muslims in any visible way.

Defenders of Jinnah’s Pakistan must know — being irreligious isn’t same as being secular

+TFP Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
There's no correlation between religiosity and commitment to secularism. Gandhi was deeply religious and secular; Jinnah was irreligious and communal.

Karnataka hijab row shows why Opposition has not been able to mount a defence against BJP

Nikhil Jois -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.
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Koffee With Karan finale saves a boring season. Power has moved from Bollywood to influencers

Nidhima Taneja -
The Koffee with Karan finale was finally entertainment, entertainment, entertainment, after the most boring season in a boycott-Bollywood world.
Priyanka and Sonia Gandhi at a Congress rally in Amethi in June 1991. It was at this rally that Sonia fired the first salvo at the P.V. Narasimha Rao government of going slow on the probe into Rajiv Gandhi's assassination | Praveen Jain/ThePrint

Sonia Gandhi still doesn’t get that meaning of power has changed in India

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Economy

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Modi govt cuts planned borrowing to Rs 14.21 lakh crore for second half of FY23

Reuters -
Centre plans to borrow Rs 5.92 lakh crore in October-March period, compared with Rs 8.29 lakh crore of borrowing in the first half of the fiscal year that will end on September.

Defence

Pinaka is a multiple rocket launcher produced in India and developed by the DRDO for the Army | Twitter/@DRDO_India

As tensions rise with Azerbaijan, Armenia buys Pinaka rockets & ammunition from India

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The government-to-government contract, valued at about Rs 2,000 cr, is learnt to have been signed earlier this month. Supplies to be fast-tracked according to Armenia's requirement.

National Interest

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AAP’s filling a big vacuum in Indian politics. Question is how long it can sustain without ideology

Shekhar Gupta -
If you find admiration for AAP qualified, if not muted among many of the Modi-BJP’s critics, it is because they question it for its lack of ideological clarity. Especially on secularism.

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