Bharat Mata
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Best of Bharat
X.T.M ends a Delhi trip at a Para athletes event and the Lotus Temple, and reads the visit as showing what a soft but strong Indian superpower looks like.
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Spiritual mothers of South Asia
The author traces the maternal figures in the national songs and anthems of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka back to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s 1882 novel Anandamath, arguing that Bharat Mata,…
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Caste in America
The author argues that Brahmins are the civilisational custodians of the subcontinent and that anti-Brahmin undercurrents in some Dalit-justice coalitions risk cultural erasure, while supporting Dalit rights. He also revisits…
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Mother India is Communal
Responding to Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s tweet calling ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ communal, the author finds the objection absurd and asks why such Muslim liberals police Indian society rather than challenge…
