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I understand that these liberal and leftwingers are aiming their hate towards the Conservative Indians. But it does seem to smear the whole country and diaspora too. There was a video

📚 Research is rarely linear. Let your past work be part of your future thinking.

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What struck me about this article is how this reflects what happened in India with the BJP mastering the new way of politics #SouthAsiaSky

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

Can you imagine the horror of being forcibly deported from your home AND then forced to walk through forests to get back to your home country. Shame on both India and Bangladesh. #SouthAsiaSky

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India not only strikes the Pakistani side of Kashmir but also hits targets in Punjab! 😳 #SouthAsiaSky

Pakistan suspends 1972 Simla Agreement day after India freezes Indus Waters Treaty The agreement said that both countries would respect the Line of Control established after the 1971 war.

This is escalating VERY quickly

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‘We ran for cover’: 26 tourists feared dead in Pahalgam militant attack The attack was ‘much larger than anything’ directed at civilians in recent years, said J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

This is something we havent seen for some time.

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Debut of Pasmanda Muslim in Modi ministry possible in the next reshuffle NEW DELHI: Amid Opposition criticism over the lack of a Muslim face in the Union ministry, the BJP-led NDA government is reportedly looking to address it in the

But reading the article, if a Muslim IS included in the cabinet, they are talking about just adding at Minister of State level, not in the Cabinet proper.

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PM Modi and Muhammed Yunus to meet in Bangkok, in a possible turnaround for ties PM Modi to meet Bangladesh Chief Advisor Yunus at BIMSTEC summit amid tensions, potential meetings with Nepal and Myanmar leaders.

While in news from South Asia … will this lead to friendlier relations?

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With the Waqf Bill, the state brings a legal bulldozer to minority rights It sidesteps constitutional guarantees to sanction state intervention into the religious affairs of a community, barely concealing the intent to dispossess.

This is a careful and systematic analysis of the further dismantling of secularism in India

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State-sanctioned Demolitions In Palestine And India Despite different historical contexts and scales of demolitions by Israel and India, the similar nature of discriminatory and targeted demolitions mandates a comparison

A comparison between state-sanctioned demolition in Palestine and India.

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How Hindutva’s politics of renaming burdens Indian Muslims with imaginary historical guilt The changes in the names of cities and streets are projected as an act of reclamation – a Hindu conquest over destructive Muslims.

Decorative nationalism in India

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“The message of the renaming is that regardless of your place of birth, your religion decides whether you are the primary or a secondary citizen of India. Muslimness is treated as more important than Indian-ness.”

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Hindi belt opposition parties support delimitation, disagree with ally Stalin On delimitation, the INDIA bloc’s Hindi belt members seem to have more in common with the BJP than Stalin.

As I tell my students on #POLI3068, federations with a large number of units/states will create flexible coalitions

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More on language politics in #India

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Can Indian Muslims be represented only by Muslim leaders? Muslim communities define themselves as secular voters, expressing economic and social concerns, without giving up their collective identity, shows research.

Must read by Hilal Ahmed

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It appears that the unfair treatment of Muslims by state authorities has been so normalised that many Muslims do not think it can even be reported to authorities.

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Branded ‘love jihad’, locked up by police: Ankita and Hasnain’s five-month ordeal to get married The interfaith couple have been put through a Kafkaesque tribulation in their attempts to marry under the Special Marriage Act.

“Rathore & Ansari’s 5-months legal struggle to get married is a cautionary tale of how the entire state apparatus is now bent on preventing interfaith couples – especially those where the man is Muslim and the woman Hindu – from getting married.”

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Amit Shah counters Stalin’s Hindi imposition claims, urges Tamil education push The remarks come amid a spat between Stalin and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the three-language mandate in the National Education Policy.

'The Centre has withheld Rs 2,152 crore in funds to Tamil Nadu under the Samagra Shiksha scheme. Pradhan earlier said the amount would not be released unless Tamil Nadu implemented the National Education Policy and adopted the three-language formula.'

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Cabinet reshuffle: 27 new members join federal cabinet President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday administered the oath to new federal ministers, state ministers, and advisors...

New cabinet appointed in #Pakistan

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Building a ‘second republic’: students who led Bangladesh revolution launch political party Jatiya Nagorik party, popular among the country’s vast youth, could shift electoral landscape but needs to show democratic, secular credentials

New political party formed in #Bangladesh will be interesting to see how their programme develops, how they are structured and how they organize.

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Using the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social coding of liberal democracy in Asia for my lecture next week. Striking how far India has dropped since 1990.

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Tycoon profited after India relaxed border security rules for energy park Exclusive: Military experts raise concerns over change to protocols on Pakistan border to allow project that was handed to billionaire Gautam Adani

Why am I not surprised to see Adani profited by this?

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Bangladeshi protesters destroy ex-PM’s family home symbolising independence Property from which Sheikh Hasina’s father declared break from Pakistan attacked due to link with authoritarianism

Passions still running very high in #Bangladesh

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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...

“Censor Board … low tolerance for anything remotely challenging the government, the Hindu nationalist establishment, Hinduism or socio-cultural practices deemed to be Hindu. “

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Yo flipándolo mucho el sábado en la expo del Museo Nacional de Antropología #MNA

🇮🇳 "Caminos místicos: tradiciones vivas del arte de la India"
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Hoy se realizan rituales ceremoniales, a los que se les llama pūja. En la #SaraswatiPooja se ofrecen a la diosa flores de mostaza y caléndula🌼🏵️ Los días cada vez son más largos, la naturaleza está despertando del letargo del invierno y se invoca a la diosa

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Mosque Surveys and the Memories of Babri Masjid Demolition From Shahi Eidgah in Mathura to Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, each mosque survey is an echo of the Babri Masjid’s legacy. Each destruction not only reshapes Indian history but also obliterates the memory ...

"The removal or destruction of Muslim architecture, in this understanding, performs the dual role of righting perceived historical wrongs and removing the evidence of Muslim contributions and claims to Indian history" writes Bilal Ahmad.

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What went wrong with ‘Pakistan’s Dubai’? – inside the Chinese initiative that is prompting terror attacks The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project

"Instead it was widely felt that China ultimately intended to use the deepwater port as a strategic military base for its navy and the airport as a resource for its military."

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Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots

‘For the first time, it identifies Hindu nationalist extremism, and Hindutva, as ideologies of concern after unrest in Leicester in 2022.’

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India saw 84% rise in communal riots in 2024: Report Maharashtra reported the most number of riots – 12 out of the total 59, according to a report by the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism.

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Britain told to give India back artefacts in lieu of £52trn in reparations Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’

Well, that's definitely going in my colonialism in Asia lecture next week!

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