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Why Is Liberalism a 'Bad' Word for the Right?


Why Is Liberalism a Bad Word for the Right?
If liberalism has become a bad word for the Religious Right, there must be some virtues in the concept and practices of the ideology.
Illustration: The Wire
Society14/Jan/2021
I have been attracted to critical theory all my life, and never dreamt that I would be compelled to defend liberalism, as I intend to do in this piece. Oddly, a philosophy that has been dismissed by the radical Left as tame and status-quoist, has become a term of abuse in the hands of the religious Right.
‘Lutyens Delhi’, the ‘Khan Market gang’, and ‘Urban Naxals’ are contemptuously dismissed as ‘libtards’. The mind boggles. What on earth is the meaning of libtard? The word is clumsy at best and incoherent at worst. The wider question is – why is the Right so scared of liberalism?  ....

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Recalling secular-egalitarian ideology of Kakori martyrs amidst Hindutva 'onslaught'


Recalling secular-egalitarian ideology of Kakori martyrs amidst Hindutva onslaught
By Shamsul Islam. Dated: 12/22/2020 12:10:33 AM
“Unfortunately, India’s current rulers, the mainstream academia and the media have consciously seceded from this great philosophical heritage of the Kakori martyrs. The Hindutva onslaught today is the outcome of our ignorance about the sacrifices of the Kakori martyrs and ideals for which they laid down their lives.”
On August 9, 1925 a group of Indian revolutionaries affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which included Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, RajenderLahiri, Roshan Singh, Manmath Nath Gupta and others waylaid the British Government treasury loaded on a passenger train at Kakori railway station (approximately 20 kilometers from Lucknow) and captured the same. ....

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