Secular Perspective

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…

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…

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…

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…

Recently the issue of constructing temple of Lord Ram on the disputed site where the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya once stood and was demolished in 1992 is hotly debated. In…

A section of Hindu supremacist organizations are once again mobilizing to demand the construction of Ramjanmabhoomi temple (RJT) in Ayodhya on the spot where Babri Masjid once stood and was…

In the previous issue of Secular Perspective (Vol. XXI No. 21, Nov. 1-15, 2018), we briefly outlined the tension between rights of denominations or any sections thereof under Art. 26 of the…

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…