The violence which wracked the western Indian state of Gujarat ten years ago has almost become a metaphor for a particular aspect of India’s contemporary reality. The metaphor is described differently, depending on whether one is a supporter of Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi or an opponent. Read the rest of this entry »
The Secret of Modi’s Success
4 03 2012Comments : 7 Comments »
Tags: Adivasi, Bharatiya Janata Party, Capitalism, Dalit, Democracy, Gujarat killings 2002, Hindutva, indian capitalists, KHAM, Muslim, Narendra Modi, Patidar
Categories : India, Mobilisation and Movements, Politics, Religion, Secularisation, Secularism
How Not to Understand Muslim fundamentalism
2 06 2010Mahmood Mamdani recently gave a talk at the University of Johannesburg, touching on the topics of free speech and bigotry in our contemporary world. He took the example of Mohammed cartoons to make this point. It is a well argued and seemingly persuasive thesis which you can read here at Kafila.
I found that I had some fundamental differences with it and decided to write them out here. Please do read him before you read my response. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: bigotry, blasphemy, Colonialism, freedom of speech, Imperialism, Left politics, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammed Cartoons, Muslim Fundamentalism, Taslima Nasreen
Categories : History, Mobilisation and Movements, Muslims and Islam, Politics, Religion, Secularisation, Secularism, War and Imperialism
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