Illiberal India

Gurcharan Das: What is the future of liberalism in India?

The country’s rapid progress and liberal economy of the past three decades is being undone by its illiberal tilt, democracy slipping.

Gurcharan Das
· Aug 17, 2024 · 09:00 am
With India’s callousness towards Palestine, a little bit of the country’s soul has been washed away

The pervasive insensitivity of the rich and well-off towards India’s own marginalised and minority groups extends to people in the rest of the world.

C Rammanohar Reddy
· Nov 12, 2023 · 09:00 am
In India (as in the world) liberalism and illiberalism have always gone hand-in-hand

Liberal democracy is under siege in India and elsewhere – proponents must distinguish between the right to dissent and intolerance.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
· Aug 05, 2018 · 08:30 pm

A (2004) response to Ram Guha: ‘Hindu liberalism shouldn’t need the crutches of Muslim liberalism’

The reasons for it should be sought elsewhere, particularly in the politics of the Sangh Parivar.

Asghar Ali Engineer
· Mar 21, 2018 · 06:30 am
The vicious attacks on Gulzar actually prove his point

One of India’s most respected artists, Gulzar faced right-wing ire for speaking up in favour of protesting writers.

Shoaib Daniyal
· Oct 26, 2015 · 08:45 am
Hindu extremist group serves notice on another Doniger book

Dinanath Batra of the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti has served legal notice on Aleph Book Company, demanding a withdrawal of Doniger's 'On Hinduism'.

Scroll Staff
· Mar 03, 2014 · 05:22 am

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Illiberal India

Gurcharan Das: What is the future of liberalism in India?

The country’s rapid progress and liberal economy of the past three decades is being undone by its illiberal tilt, democracy slipping.

Gurcharan Das · Aug 17, 2024 · 09:00 am

With India’s callousness towards Palestine, a little bit of the country’s soul has been washed away

The pervasive insensitivity of the rich and well-off towards India’s own marginalised and minority groups extends to people in the rest of the world.

C Rammanohar Reddy · Nov 12, 2023 · 09:00 am

In India (as in the world) liberalism and illiberalism have always gone hand-in-hand

Liberal democracy is under siege in India and elsewhere – proponents must distinguish between the right to dissent and intolerance.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee · Aug 05, 2018 · 08:30 pm

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· Aug 17, 2024 · 09:00 am

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· Nov 12, 2023 · 09:00 am

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