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…
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The Secular Perspective is the Centre’s fortnightly magazine, providing timely commentary on current events occurring in India and around the world.
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…
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…
Understanding Interfaith Dialogue: A few Critical Questions
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…
Babri Masjid: What should Muslims do?
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…
Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism – II
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…
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…