The ideas of “revenge” and “lesson” emerging from the Delhi violence take us back to the killings of 1984 and 2002. The magnitude of 2020 ...
- The ideas of “revenge” and “lesson” emerging from the Delhi violence take us back to the killings of 1984 and 2002. The magnitude of 2020 Delhi riots may be different, but its impact in terms of ghettoisation of Muslims will probably be equally strong, argues Christophe Jaffrelot in Indian Express.
- If history is a guide, then the Supreme Court should don its judicial garb and pronounce on the legality of the Citizenship Amendment Act without fear or favour. In times of conflict, the power of adjudication is the court’s best weapon in protecting individual liberty, writes Arghya Sengupta in Times of India.
- In the wake of the Delhi riots, there is growing suspicion that the BJP is working to a plan. The BJP is emboldened to pursue its partisan agenda owing to the massive majority it enjoys in the Lok Sabha and the fact that Lok Sabha elections are four years away, says former Union Minister P Chidambaram in Indian Express.
- The last nine months – meaning, the period of time when the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi began – have seen Hindutva acquire a new sense of urgency. Even the fig leaf of development is a thing of the past. This, indeed, is Hindutva’s true and unalloyed form, something...
