Overt and Covert Racism and Communalism
Irfan Engineer (Secular Perspective April 1-15, 2019) On 15th March 2019, 50 Muslims offering their Friday prayers died and 48 injured when they were gunned down in Masjid al Noor mosque…
India needs democratic governance and not strong leadership
Irfan Engineer (Secular Perspective March 16-31, 2019) After the air strike by Indian Air Force in Balakot, Pakistan on 26th February 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have…
Democracy is the Biggest Casualty in Any War
Irfan Engineer (Secular Perspective March 1-15, 2019) Increased hostility with a neighbouring country or internal conflict on fault lines of religion can always bail out a ruling regime in elections…
Mapping Attitudinal, Symbolic and Structural Violence, Part III
CSSS Team: Neha Dabhade, Irfan Engineer, Suraj Nair, Siddhi Pendke[1] (Secular Perspective February 16-28, 2019) The preceding two sections of the report examined the communal riots and mob lynching that…
Mob Lynching: Changing Patterns of Communal Violence in India, Part II
CSSS Team: Neha Dabhade, Irfan Engineer, Suraj Nair, Siddhi Pendke[1] (Secular Perspective February 1-15, 2019) The year 2018 saw 84 incidents of mob lynching. Mob lynching defined in section I…
A History of Indo-Afghan Relations by Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Centre for Study of Society and Secularism Cordially invites you to the talk on A History of Indo-Afghan Relations By Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi This talk will examine the long-term…
Communal Violence 2018: Locating the Role of State and Changing Nature of Violence
CSSS Team: Neha Dabhade, Irfan Engineer, Suraj Nair, Siddhi Pendke[1] (Secular Perspective January 1-15, 2019) As per newspaper reports, the number of communal incidents all over India in 2018 has…
Aurangabad Communal Violence Fact Finding Report – 2018
A note by Irfan Engineer Communalism and Development Communal politics has been viewed from different perspectives. The left primarily regards religion as opium of people, instilling false consciousness, giving them…
11th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture
Secularism: its meaning and the need for it” by Prof. Irfan Habib “The RSS didn’t participate in the Indian freedom struggle and didn’t contribute in fighting for independence from the…
State of the Stateless: the Tale of NRC in Assam
This ache is the prospect facing and lived by 40 lakh odd residents of Assam today. 40 lakhs of the residents in Assam do not find their names on the…