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What was the need for Nupur Sharma to even say it? Just because she said something you didn’t like you’d call for her beheading...

Nirwa Mehta - 14 June, 2022

Just because Hindus don't take to street power and don't run riots or give calls for beheading those who mock our faith, it is they who must be mindful of not hurting others' religious feelings.

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Rangeela Rasool, 295A, partition: History threatens to repeat as demands for a special law to punish ‘gustakh-e-rasool’ grows

Nupur J Sharma - 13 June, 2022

Nupur Sharma, the former BJP spokesperson, has been caught in a dangerous storm after she made certain innocuous comments during a TimesNow debate

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A tale of two Indias: When a sitting CM of state followed rule of land, while an MP’s supporters believe he is above law

Suyash - 13 June, 2022

Two parties - one which claims to have brought democracy to India and the other which is often tainted to have backsided while upholding the same principles showcase different behaviour when real democracy is to be exercised.

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Viral video of kids urinating on photo of Nupur Sharma: What it tells us about patriarchy and the prevalence of rape culture

Sneha - 11 June, 2022

Apart from the "crime of blasphemy", Nupur has committed another crime, against patriarchy, to be born a woman in a highly patriarchal society.

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Tiananmen square massacre: How Beijing’s slaves in India had no sympathies for the victims and abused them as lackeys of the USA

Ganesh R - 11 June, 2022

Come June, the world remembers Tiananmen. Not in China’s official media though. But forget China, it has become a cowboy capitalist state in a fitting tribute to Mao. Let us look at the Indian left.

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A weekend story: Ravish Kumar, Whatsapp University and Jaipur Literature Festival

Abhishek Banerjee - 11 June, 2022

There was this time fairly recently when Ravish ji went on a short break. When he returned, I noticed that he had made a few changes to his studio for prime time.

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Has the disproportionate noise and outrage on Nupur Sharma boomeranged on the Islamists?

NR Nigam - 11 June, 2022

While Islamists in India seemed overjoyed that Arabs have come to their support against Nupur Sharma, there are bigger implications of the way this issue has played out.

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When the State weakens, men become monsters: How long do we have till effigies turn real?

Sanghamitra - 10 June, 2022

The effigy is not real, not an actual person. But while we stare at it, thousands of people are running wild all over India, declaring that they want the real Nupur Sharma hanged, beheaded and brutalised.

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