“Bharat Mata Ki Jai”— how valid a measure of nationalism?
2016-06-20
Should nationalism be worn on one’s sleeve? Be expressed loudly and visibly?Continue Reading
1000 non-Kashmiri students leave campus
2016-04-11
New Delhi: More than 1,000 non-Kashmiri students have left the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar following days of tensions between local and outstation pupils over nationalism, sources said on Monday. Around 600 students left the campus on Monday, a day after actor and BJP sympathiser Anupam Kher was forcedContinue Reading
Gujarat education institutes make Bharat Mata ki Jai their rule
2016-04-04
Ahmedabad: Four Gujarat educational institutions run by a trust headed by a BJP leader have made it mandatory for students to write ‘Bharat mata ki jai’ in their application forms to secure admission. The move is likely to fuel the raging debate on nationalism that has led to a confrontationContinue Reading
Not My Idea of India
2015-10-02
Last month, I was reading Nathuram Godse’s statement to the court in his defence of murdering Mahatma Gandhi. The statement published in the form of a book titled ‘Why I killed Gandhi’ had me in a state of shock with Godse’s justification of his intolerance. I was convinced that menContinue Reading