Down the ages, a natural tolerance—tinged with faith—has been our subsoil. Why do my friends foist a dry import like secularism upon this rootedness?
Hate has become respectable now. But Savarkar and Jinnah had understood this maxim long ago.
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Terror, as the tool of despair or virtue, has ruled our world order
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Politics has blunted the edge of his ideology, making him less dangerous
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Cricket’s newest fall noted, the IPL row will limp off sated TV screens
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Democracy’s new torchbearers would brook no lenience to ‘sedition’
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Absolution for Modi? Maybe a visit to the Ajmer dargah could help.
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Bal Thackeray played a game of violent juvenile pranks as politics
BY Ashis Nandy 5 February 2022
Muslims see in Asaduddin Owaisi a leader who can fight the BJP on their own terms. Some of that goes back to a historical fact that shadows the AIMIM faintly: its old umbilical links with the Razakars
BY Ashis Nandy 28 November 2020
The sly interplay between idealism and ideology keeps excess at bay. In these times of ‘total politics’ in India—characterised by a jam-spread of hatred that leaves isolated, targeted individuals meekly facing a gargantuan State—that healthy mutual vigil has been summarily suspended.
BY Ashis Nandy 11 August 2017
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