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Is India Really a Democracy? The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind: Nayantara Sahgal
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Is India Really a Democracy? The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind: Nayantara Sahgal
The author's lament about the attacks on individual rights and freedoms in present-day India.
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How a Minecraft World Has Built a Safe Online Playground for Autistic Kids
The Autcraft community offers a controlled and filtered environment for autistic children to play and socialise.
We Are Living in an India That Has No Connection With Its Modern Political Past
Equal rights and equal citizenship are in tatters, and Indians have been divided into Hindus and 'others'.
Full Text | The Fiery Speech Writer Nayantara Sahgal Wasn't Allowed to Deliver
"Sentiments cannot decide what is right or wrong. In some cases, it is even our duty to hurt sentiments."
There Is No Room for Religious Fundamentalism Among Us
Added to the fallacy of a nation giving itself a religion, is the fact that religion everywhere has been boiled down into laws and rules made by men.
I Cannot Accept Hindutva Because I Am a Hindu
Hindutva is a political invention that has re-defined Hinduism for its political purpose, which is to declare India a Hindu rashtra.
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The Unmaking of India: Why I am Returning My Sahitya Akademi Award
I am doing this in memory of the Indians who have been murdered, in support of all Indians who uphold the right to dissent, and of all dissenters who now live in fear and uncertainty.
Shall We Stay Silent at This Most Unholy of Wars?
We now see Indians turning upon Indians in methodically targeted ways, in some cases with guns or whatever crude weapons they can lay hands on, in some cases with black paint, in some cases with the simple device of numbers known as a mob.
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