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Podcast: It Is Wrong to Link Rabindranath Tagore With Narrow Nationalism, as Is Being Done Now In conversation with political scientist Sibaji Pratim Basu. Sidharth Bhatia and Sibaji Pratim Basu. Video19/Jan/2021 With the assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, all parties are working full time to win over the electorate. Trinamool Congress, the incumbent in power, is facing a challenge from not just the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress but also an aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP has tried to appropriate Rabindranath Tagore, who is a revered icon for the Bengalis. The party has tried to show him as a nationalist, using some of his writings selectively. ....
Podcast | Women in India Are the Face of Resistance: Aishe Ghosh Students all over India will now have âno option but to protestâ to save education, she believes. Sidharth Bhatia and Aishe Ghosh. Video22/Dec/2020 Early in January, 2020, a masked mob barged into the Jawaharlal Nehru University and began beating up students who were protesting against fee hikes. Several students were injured, among them Aishe Ghosh, a leader from the Studentsâ Federation of India. She had to be hospitalised and instead of preparing an FIR based on her complaint, she was charged with vandalism. One year later, nobody from the group of outsiders who came in has been arrested. JNU went into lockdown and has still not opened, while other institutions have. ....
Podcast: Future Generations Will Never Forgive Us If We Allow India to Become Like Nazi Germany Mander talks about what he saw during the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, and how the middle-classes have completely bought into the communal narrative. Sidharth Bhatia (L) and Harsh Mander. Video15/Dec/2020 Harsh Mander, former IAS officer who is now a peace and social justice activist, has been an unceasing critic of the growing communal atmosphere in the country. He led the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, a journey around India for atonement of the many instances of violence against minorities. In this podcast interview with Sidharth Bhatia, Mander talks about what he saw, and how the middle-classes have completely bought into the communal narrative. He sees the lynchings and laws against so-called âlove jihadâ as part of a long-term plan. âThe social project of marginalising of minorities has been achieved,â he says; now the legal processes are being put into place. ....