Communal conflict and polarization is on the rise in India and it helps no one. AamJanata endorses unity, tolerance and strict resistance to any attempts to marginalize and polarize Indians on the basis of identity. Indian citizens must be equal under law and their freedoms protected equally. Communal vigilantism perverts the harmonious existence of society and adds stress and paranoia in general to the social atmosphere as well as does untold harm to the opportunistic targets of crimes by vigilante political and religious organizations. Most mob violence and intimidation in India is organized to achieve political ends.
Historical documents establish that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose opposed the Hindu Mahasabha as well as the Muslim League as communal and acted to prevent their growth and membership in the Congress. This is contradictory to the attempts of contemporary right wingers to appropriate his legacy.
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When you begin with a conclusion and backfit “science” to prove it, absurd things happen.The Holy Cow seems to be one such absurdity plaguing India these days. Trumpeting the importance
The Gobar economy. Finding economic value in barren cattle Read More »
In the National Executive (NE) meeting yesterday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) removed Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from their Political Affairs Committee (PAC). This action comes after a long
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Ever since Aam Aadmi Party’s stunning win in Delhi Assembly elections, there is a rash of analysis and advice for Modi government (which has mostly fallen on deaf ears, and
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A year and a half after the brutal murder of Narendra Dabholkar on 20th August 2013, another Communist leader and Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti activist Govind Pansare and his wife Uma been shot in
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Season for questions on how to deradicalize Muslims. Later there will be a season on how to deradicalize Hindus (like much later, five years later). Answer is the same. Treat
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When a woman tweeted the image of a pamphlet allegedly issued by the RSS, dropped at the Shekinah prayer house in Bangalore, she was trolled to the point she got
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This old piece remains among the best on the organized right wing takeover of Indian media. *** What have been the inroads made by the RSS into the media over
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Amaresh Misra, whose profile describes him as “Author, Historian, Film writer and Politician” completely went bonkers on Twitter. Raging against the right wing in the wake of Modi’s speech at
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