Historian Bipan Chandra tells Avijit Ghosh that communalism could have been controlled, even eradicated, if an active educative campaign was carried out against the phenomena in post-independent India ...

The understanding of secularism in India has changed over time with its politics and politicians. While communalism has always been the antithesis of secularism, new strands of communal identity ...

A quasi-academic collection, that reviews the “changing contours” of the violent antagonism between India’s Hindus and Muslims, seeks to revive the debate on communalism “Astonishing thought,” Nehru ...

The discourse and politics of equidistance from majority communalism and minority communalism is flawed because it equates two unequal concepts. The Indian nationalist perspective on this equidistant ...

When a number of eminent historians including Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib termed the National Book Trust (NBT) chairman’s decision to revoke the orders to get “Sampradayikta:”, the Hindi version of ...

Sir: It is not news that every segment of the Nigerian state is in a shambles– from politics, to economy, to education, and even morality. Even religion is not a rescue. The axiomatic definition of ...

One of the peculiarities of Indian political debate is that everyone claims to be secular while accusing others of not being so. Secularism’s hegemony as an idea was made clear by L.K. Advani, when he ...