Apoorvanand
The writer teaches Hindi at Delhi University.
Articles By Apoorvanand
Why it is necessary to remember and reflect on our history of mass violence
Those baying for the blood of Sam Pitroda must also think about the need to remember and reflect on our history of mass violence and our own thoughtlessness towards it.
Bilkis Bano’s fight for justice, dignity and equality keeps alive the idea of citizenship
Bilkis Bano is the quintessential Indian our Constitution demands us to be. She may be unlettered but she understands the spirit of the Preamble. She understands the weight of the words, “We, the people of India”.
Islamophobia, theirs and ours
Islamophobia continues to run like blood in our veins. We share our lives with those who hate Muslims and yet claim to remain civilised. Unless we first recognise this duplicity, we would not be able to move towards getting rid of this disease.
Namvar Singh defined the contours of Hindu literary culture
Namvar Singh was inarguably the first and the only Hindi scholar and intellectual who commanded the respectful attention of luminaries from the world of social sciences and politics.
A Rotten Compromise
Impasse in Babri masjid case is better than ceding ground to a radical evil.
The cycle of impunity
The court’s lament about the recurrence of mass violence and the absence of laws against it in the 1984 judgment needs to be heard.
A higher exclusion
A survey shows Indian campuses are more inclusive than before, but a lot of ground needs to be covered still
A Lesson To Learn
Government has forgotten that children have a first right to nation’s resources
Kandhamal without closure
A decade after anti-Christian violence took a toll, there are no signs of remorse
Gandhi’s talisman for Rahul
Congress must remember: When in doubt, stand with the persecuted.
For Whom The Bells Troll
The trolls that target Sushma Swaraj are a byproduct of her and her party’s politics
No Hope Of A Dialogue
Optimism over Pranab Mukherjee addressing RSS meet is misplaced
Marx, The Humanist
Karl Marx envisioned a world where humans are not abstracted by societies or commodities
Poetry After Kathua
Let silence, the absence of language force us to look at crime non-poetically
Liberally blinkered
Think about it: Liberals and RSS both want Muslims to shed their Muslimness.
Gandhi’s last battle
Mahatma Gandhi blamed no one, but if the “Hindus and Sikhs insisted on turning out Muslims from Delhi, they would be betraying India and their own faith”.
In defence of the individual
That an individual can source divinity within herself was unimaginable for religious institutions. But for the institution of the nation state, the individual remains as suspect.
Foisting the flag
Orders to madrasas in UP and MP bear a dangerous message of domination.
For J&K, lessons from Chauri Chaura
The lynching of Ayub Pandit must make people of the Valley pause and ask: Is the Kashmiri soul being brutalised ? Kashmiri leaders will have to talk to their people frankly like Gandhi did after Chauri Chaura.
New Army For New India
Relationship between government, army and us is being rewritten, disturbingly so
