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My Request To Hindu Platforms Of All Sorts - by Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday October 11, 2021

Calm, serene, silent faces that avoid looking at cruelty, or wink at it, can only disgrace Hinduism at a time when the global climate seems to be friendly to it.

Opinion: Yes, Hinduism Is Indeed Under Threat

Rajmohan Gandhi | Saturday September 18, 2021

If Hinduism is more than a race, if Hinduism is a set of values needed by people of all races, languages, and colours, please, Mr. Bhagwat, remind your vast following of Rama's superior chariot and its weapons of discretion and self-restraint.

Impact Of Kabul Suicide Attacks On Biden And US

Rajmohan Gandhi | Saturday August 28, 2021

Minute-to-minute developments around the Kabul airfield are impossible to predict, but what happens will have major consequences in the US and in much of the world.

A "Yes Or No" Question For Modi On Partition - by Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Wednesday August 18, 2021

The most crucial words in the first Modi tweet are "our sisters and brothers". Which is why I want to ask him the question spelt out at the beginning of this piece, and why the nation needs a simple "yes" or "no" answer from him.

Opinion: Xi Jinping's Bullet Train Ride At India Border And Our China Policy

Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday July 26, 2021

Xi Jinping's recent bullet-train ride to Lhasa after landing at Tibet's Nyingchi-Mainling airport, right next to the Arunachal Pradesh border, has drawn attention to two things.

Opinion: The Obvious Intent Of The Two-Child Policy

Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday July 12, 2021

Is the two-child policy catapulted by these two into the public discourse a sign of autonomy inside the Hindutva camp, even some sort of indirect challenge to Modi?

India Must Be Aware Of A New Pak Reality - And Its Impact: Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Thursday July 01, 2021

America's withdrawal from Afghanistan is a chance for the South Asian region to look after itself, to look at relations between and within the countries of the region, to ask whether we want peace-and-equality, or intimidation-and-strife.

Opinion: The Defeat Of PM Modi’s Cult Of Personality

Rajmohan Gandhi | Sunday May 02, 2021

A huge victory for an embattled single woman in a wheelchair who stood for an India and a Bengal for all.

Opinion: What To Make Of Amit Shah's Warning After Nuns' Harassment

Rajmohan Gandhi | Thursday March 25, 2021

The ABVP young men who alerted the railway police about the "crime" they were witnessing as their train, the Utkal Express, was speeding along clearly thought they were doing a patriotic duty. When, as a result, two nuns from Kerala plus the two trainees accompanying them were taken off the train at Jhansi, the ABVP vigilantes may have reminded themselves of the heroi...

Opinion: Just Who Is Spoiling India's Image? A View From The US

Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday February 22, 2021

This has not been the best season for New Delhi's "chhavi" managers. Just when freak late-winter storms shook much of the U.S., stories and pictures of Disha Ravi's arrest began to trouble America's significant pro-India community. As one large U.S. network, NBC News, puts it, "A 22-year-old climate activist has emerged as a symbol of the Indian government's crackdown...

Opinion: Trump's Last Days In Power - by Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Friday January 22, 2021

Suspense will no doubt continue in the U.S. But toxicity has gone down noticeably.

Opinion: Trump's Errors Have Raised Questions About Republicans' Future

Rajmohan Gandhi | Friday January 08, 2021

Two other events, also significant for American politics, should be noted. First, the state of Georgia, for decades a bastion of White supremacy, gave Democrats control of the US Senate. Then, on the same day (January 6), top Republicans broke with Donald Trump.

Opinion: Kamala Harris And India's Laws Against "Love Jihad"

Rajmohan Gandhi | Monday December 28, 2020

When the results of the January 6 runoffs are out, we will know whether or not their daughter Kamala Harris will have, as Vice-President and chair, the Senate's casting vote. In either case, she, half-Indian, half-Black, and fully American, will have an important say in the contest between two visions, one holding that your race will determine your status in America, ...

Opinion: "Majority Victimhood" Runs Into Challenges - By Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Friday December 11, 2020

Can a government that parades its democratic credentials endlessly oppose a demand that the people must be consulted before drastic and dramatic changes are imposed on them?

Opinion: What Appears To Have Cost Trump The Election - by Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi | Saturday November 07, 2020

Donald Trump's exit is almost certain. His evident defeat offers a significant lesson: Like other tides of history, an ethnonationalist tide too can recede, or be made to retreat.

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