Across South Asia, the difference between prejudice and collapse is not the existence of hate. Every society has it in varying shades. The difference is whether the majoritarian state internalizes hate against the ‘other’, whether FIRs get diluted, trials get delayed, mobs get garlanded and impunity driven violence against minorities becomes low-cost. When that happens, the poison is not outside the system. It becomes the system.
And perhaps this is precisely what many readers, particularly South Asian readers navigating fractured contemporary lives, have been missing without fully realising it: fiction willing to slow down long enough to notice the fragile, passing intimacies through which people continue surviving one another.
Thurman said that Tibet was not an individual nation-state question but something that goes far beyond that. “It is not about a people yearning for freedom from an invading state. It is about a very valuable society struggling to keep its centuries-old tradition of intellectual evolution alive.” He said that while he was hopeful that the problem would be resolved soon, “and during His Holiness’ lifetime,” it was hard to put a timeframe to it.
The perceived push from a political leadership that has roots in Gujarat, the split in the locally rooted Shiv Sena that was engineered, the resentment it brewed among ordinary citizens and the history of Maharashtra -- which was born on May 1, 1960 after a bitter struggle that split the erstwhile Bombay State into two distinct linguistic states of Maharashtra and Gujarat -- are all complex and contributory factors to the evolving political unrest in middle-class Mumbai.
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Bollywood veteran Dharmendra was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the State of New Jersey in the United States by a Joint Legislative Resolution passed by the Senate and the General Assembly
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A cricket ground to host international matches will soon come up in Kabul, as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday approved a two-acre land for the ground in the capital, TOLOnews reported
Proving the adage age no bar, Renu Singhi, a Jaipur-based sportswoman, chose cycling as her career when she was 51 years old
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His father is in jail, his mother has deserted him and he does not remember the name of his village he is from. For the past few years, nine-year-old Ankit has been living on a footpath and surviving by working at a tea stall in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh
