South Asia Citizens Web

• Sudesh Vaid: A feminist public intellectual

  by Kumkum Sangari, Neeraj Malik, Svati Joshi , Uma Chakravarti, Urvashi Butalia, 1 November 2002
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  The Political Culture of Fascism

  by Jairus Banaji, 7 September 2002
  sacw.net, September 2002
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  India: Newspaper fronpage on Anti Salman Rushdie Riots In Bombay in 1989 (credits: Indian Express )

  14 July 2002

  Image of frontpage of 25 February 1989, Indian Express - on Anti Salman Rushdie violence in Bombay in 1989

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  Appeasing The Hindu Right

  by Sukumar Muralidharan, 16 April 2002

  With the political power gained by whipping up majoritarian hysteria over Ayodhya slowly slipping out of its hold, the Hindutva fraternity is returning to the strategy of rightwing mobilisation. Thus Gujarat burns and Ayodhya simmers.

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  De-Intellectualisation of Education

  by Romila Thapar, 20 December 2001

  What is being referred to as the saffronisation of education is, in effect, the de-intellectualising of education in such a severe way that little of academic value will be left in what comes to be taught in the next few years. Totalitarian ideologies are built on cynicism and the new national curriculum is immensely cynical.

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