communal violence
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Bad blood overflows in Baksa
On killings of teenage boys in Baksa, Assam, the author argues the state must protect all residents whether migrants or not, that majorities must learn tolerance, and proposes freeing women…
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Vultures of Calcutta take Direct Action
Presenting photographs of Kolkata in August 1946, the post notes that every community accused of excess pleads amnesia, that no one has been held at fault for the Great Calcutta…
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Gandhians with Guns (savage Avatars)
The poster says Western liberals romanticise tribal ‘sacred lands’, and that the Bodo violence against alleged Bangladeshi Muslim migrants draws on the 1960s Bangal Kheda movement against Bengalis, so civil…
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Army in Bodo-land (31 dead, 1000x flee homes)
On the killing of 31 in Bodoland, the poster argues that parties have exploited migrants for votes, that the violence has acquired an unnecessary religious colour, and that Modi’s call…
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Bodo vs. Muslim battle restarts (Kokrajhar, Axom)
On renewed killings of Muslim villagers in Assam, the poster argues that tribal and upper-caste groups have united against alleged illegal Bangladeshi migrants, wonders about church activists’ silence, and says…
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Gujarat model: a Pakistani perspective
A comment with extracts from a Pakistani traveller’s account of Gujarat: round-the-clock electricity and safe streets for women, but segregated neighbourhoods, anti-alcohol rules and an uneven benefit to the poor.…
