Mrittunjoy Majumdar Guha
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Indian pluralism and a pluralistic India for a Brighter Future of Humanity
A speaker at Leicester argues that India has always been a coming-together of disparate identities, so being Hindu and Indian means being pluralistic, defining Dharma as a natural order sustained…
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I am Brown, so what?
A Cambridge Graduate Union sabbatical officer reviews six months in office, then describes how, in formal committees that are polite and nominally inclusive, being the only brown person among white…
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Remembering Peterloo and Jallianwala
After a London event on the Peterloo Massacre, the author notes how the Rowlatt Act behind Jallianwala Bagh echoes Britain’s Six Acts that suppressed reform meetings after Peterloo, and links…
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Manifesto Musings
Opening a planned series on the 2019 election manifestos, the author compares the BJP’s leader-centred, ‘resolution’ style with the Congress’s focus on people and delivery, and asks whether caste, communal…
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A Struggle for True Liberation
The author argues that India freed from British rule in 1947 soon fell back into hierarchy and narrowing ideas of Indianness that broke its pluralism, and links a longer ‘Dharmic…
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A Clarion Call for Change of Culture of Politics in West Bengal
Reports a protest by Bengalis and other Indians at the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square on 19 June 2019 against alleged political violence in West Bengal, urging the Indian government…
