Weekend Reads The Pew Research Centre’s big report on Indian perceptions of religious freedom and national identity is chock-full of ins...
Weekend Reads
- The Pew Research Centre’s big report on Indian perceptions of religious freedom and national identity is chock-full of insights, such as making it clear that most Indians want to prevent inter-religious marriages.
- “These findings, if true, suggest that radical secularism or ‘woke’ politics is unlikely to work politically in India and mainstream politics will continue to pander to conservative values around both caste and religion,” writes Roshan Kishore.
- From prayer to politics, Nitin B writes on how the survey finds substantial differences between North and South India on religious perceptions.
- “After General Bipin Rawat stated that the task of the air force and the navy was to “support” the land forces, it raised a fundamental question: Are the CDS and his army laying the groundwork for an ancient, outmoded way of fighting in the 21st Century (Vedic warfare, if you will) when organised violence is multidimensional?” asks Sujan Dutta.
- Rathin Roy presents a grim view of both the Indian economy and the way it has been run over the last year. “India’s macroeconomic and growth track record, already poor and worsening, has been abysmal across the past year. The growth rate fell from 8.26 per cent in 2016 to 4.1 per cent in 2019. The pandemic caused the economy to contract by 7.3 per...
