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Why the Taimur hate club is yet another example of people who hate all things muslim

Predictably, the loudest and angriest voices of Hindu-triumphalist Twitter were at it again on Tuesday. What triggered them off this time? Bollywood actor-couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor had the temerity to give their child a name that they liked, instead of going first to get permission from the nearest RSS-shakha.

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Why The Taimur Hate Club Is Yet Another Example Of People Who Hate All Things Muslim

What’s in a name? If it’s Muslim, a lot.

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Khalid Wani &#038; The Blame Game Politicians Love To Play In Kashmir

Have you ever felt a sense that your life is playing in a continuous loop? It’s a suffocating feeling, as if there is nothing you can do to release yourself from a cycle that seems to go on and on. Joseph Heller captured that sense brilliantly in Catch-22—how a person can be trapped by the [&hellip;]

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Why Jayalalithaa Was Only Following In Gandhi, Jinnah &amp; Modi’s Footsteps

What explains the absence of ideology in Indian politics? Why are Indian politicians so quick to shed ideals and values that appear to run deep in our polity? Across the country, a vote-winner is valued over the ideology he or she stands for. In fact, it seems to be the key. Ideology, a firm and identifiable plank, is a detriment in a diverse democracy like ours. A winner needs to divest himself or herself of party ideology if they are to build an aura that brings them repeated electoral success. Their partymen, happy to be taken along for the ride, are content to witness and even aid this undercutting of the same ideology that brought them to politics, in exchange for the pleasures of power.

Why Jayalalithaa Was Only Following In Gandhi, Jinnah &#038; Modi’s Footsteps

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Having To Stand For The National Anthem In A Movie Theatre Is Annoying, Not Patriotic

The worry is that the Supreme Court is only too aware that mandating we stand for the national anthem in movie theatres has nothing, as they have loftily claimed, to do with instilling “committed patriotism and nationalism.”

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India vs England: BCCI’s Three Amigos Shastri, Manjrekar And Gavaskar Are Ruining Cricket Commentary

On the other, you have Sanjay Manjrekar, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri. In your living room. Best part of eight hours a day.

BCCI’s Three Amigos Shastri, Manjrekar And Gavaskar Are Ruining Cricket Commentary

As long as Anurag Thakur &amp; his XI are happy

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Tweets Against UPSC Topper Tina Dabi Show That The Hindutva Hatred For Dalits Runs Deep

Many were angry that Dabi was rich enough to go on holiday in Amsterdam. As the original tweet claimed, the Dalit girl who sneakily knocked out a deserving boy used caste-based reservations when here is evidence that she is from the “creamy layer”. The high-caste boy’s merit is taken for granted, just as Jain’s merit is in acquiring not one or two but four jobs, and travelling to New Zealand to bungy-jump, and Munich to sky-dive.

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Trump’s Inferno &amp; The Five Stages Of Grief We Must Now Live With

Appropriate to the new President of the United States Of America, you begin with anger. I woke up at 8 this morning (9.30 PM Trump Eastern Time, 6.30 PM Trump Pacific), reached for my phone, toggled to Twitter. Already it seemed Hillary Clinton would lose. My first thought – we should kick the Americans out of our country then. Uncharitable, of course. But, in keeping with the new President, I cannot remember before feeling such a surge of xenophobia. This is how it must work for everyone. You don’t want me, mate? I don’t want you. Maybe now I can understand better the xenophobias that rattle around our polity, of caste, religion, of region. Visceral, with little logic to it – my sister is married to an American, for one, and the great majority of Americans in our country seem to be Clinton voters – but for a sleepy red instant I wanted back the country I grew up in, without the debris of American culture and American corporatism washing up to my shoulders, eager to submerge all before it.

Trump’s Inferno &#038; The Five Stages Of Grief We Must Now Live With

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Why PM Modi’s Words At Indian Express’ Ramnath Goenka Journalism Awards Ring Hollow

Readers of the Indian Express were in for something of a surprise on Thursday morning. In the Mumbai edition, most of the available space on Page 1 – an advertisment for a film titled “Dongri Ka Raja” squatted upon the bottom half of the broadsheet – had been devoted to the thoughts of the chief [&hellip;]

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Prayaag Akbar

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Why The Taimur Hate Club Is Yet Another Example Of People Who Hate All Things Muslim

Khalid Wani & The Blame Game Politicians Love To Play In Kashmir

Why Jayalalithaa Was Only Following In Gandhi, Jinnah & Modi’s Footsteps

Having To Stand For The National Anthem In A Movie Theatre Is Annoying, Not Patriotic

BCCI’s Three Amigos Shastri, Manjrekar And Gavaskar Are Ruining Cricket Commentary

Tweets Against UPSC Topper Tina Dabi Show That The Hindutva Hatred For Dalits Runs Deep

Trump’s Inferno & The Five Stages Of Grief We Must Now Live With

Why PM Modi’s Words At Indian Express’ Ramnath Goenka Journalism Awards Ring Hollow

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Prayaag Akbar

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Why The Taimur Hate Club Is Yet Another Example Of People Who Hate All Things Muslim

Khalid Wani & The Blame Game Politicians Love To Play In Kashmir

Why Jayalalithaa Was Only Following In Gandhi, Jinnah & Modi’s Footsteps

Having To Stand For The National Anthem In A Movie Theatre Is Annoying, Not Patriotic

BCCI’s Three Amigos Shastri, Manjrekar And Gavaskar Are Ruining Cricket Commentary

Tweets Against UPSC Topper Tina Dabi Show That The Hindutva Hatred For Dalits Runs Deep

Trump’s Inferno & The Five Stages Of Grief We Must Now Live With

Why PM Modi’s Words At Indian Express’ Ramnath Goenka Journalism Awards Ring Hollow

Prayaag Akbar is a freelance journalist. His first novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in July 2017.