Secularism

Meo Yasin Khan: A Secularist, a Pluralist and a Peace Broker

The Meos of Mewat who suffered so much in the recent violence in Nuh, Haryana, have a history of seeking to live in peace. A writer discovers her grandfather from Mewat who fought for his community…
▶01-Nov-2023
Anisa Rahim
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Book Review

Examining the Making of the Constitution

At the dawn of independence, the liberal traditions that underpin a constitutional democracy were absent in India. How did the framers of the Constitution deal with this challenge?
▶23-Jun-2020
Christophe Jaffrelot

'We are the True Inheritors of the Nationalist Legacy!'

Shaheen Bagh, like other sites of protest against the CAA and NRC, was more a consciousness than a mere physical space. The protesters' ways of imagining religion and nationalism to meet…
▶16-Apr-2020
Asim Ali

Gandhi: A Player of Infinite Games

Even radical dissenters have experimented within some boundaries. Gandhi played with boundaries themselves in nearly every domain of life — politics, sexuality, culture, knowledge. He was uniquely a…
▶26-Sep-2019
Vinay Lal

An Essay for Our Times

Diversity & nationalism are complementary and not antagonistic to each other. The Constitution is built around the principle that Indians can love their country without surrendering any other…
▶12-Aug-2019
Manu S. Pillai