The Indian Left needs a fresh discourse on ways to solve caste and communal conflicts and not to fall prey to identity politics
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Tanvir Aeijaz teaches Public Policy and Politics at Ramjas College, University of Delhi.
The results of the Bihar election indicate the ugly ghettoisation of Muslim representation
Why has violence been a routine way of practising politics in Bihar
The political foundation in Bihar is caste which carries the burden of its own class
Being surrounded by non-friendly nations makes India more vulnerable to being dependent on the US and the West to counter the China-Pakistan axis. What we need is a robust foreign policy and long-term strategic planning
The challenge to waqf reform is how to build consensus on State oversight of waqf properties without violating minority rights
In the call for ‘nation first’, we are witnessing a sort of ‘pathological homogenisation’ by the State-building elites in India.
The idea of One Nation, One Election seems outlandish since the architecture of the election process doesn’t allow much space for it
Strong and autonomous state governments can offset the antinomies that Indian federalism is in the habit of reproducing
Although the Muslims in India share a few basic Islamic precepts, and in times of extreme communal crisis, act as a single religious community, they are in normal conditions both horizontally and vertically divided vis-à-vis their socially constitutive categories
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