The past 14 years under Conservative rule have seen officially endorsed right-wing activism fuel the move to Brexit and induce anti-immigration sentiment and growing ‘culture wars’
Ethnographic accounts highlight that people in rural India form deep bonds with their cows. 'Protectors' like the image of a cow but rarely engage with the creature. And those for whom hugging a cow was laughable, failed to see that one person’s pest could be another’s pet
🔴 Mukulika Banerjee writes: Cultivation is a combination of dynamism and stasis, hope and fear, trust and vigilance. The ability to navigate these is what helped farmers succeed in their protest
Amid protests, it is the quotidian lessons of citizenship that have been taught and practised over seven decades that are now being used to express what it is to be Indian
The dream had communicated a message: That if young men armed with just axes, hammers and uncontrollable rage could reduce a 16th-century mosque to rubble as they had done that day, the bare bones of the virtues required to challenge them might lie beyond the boundary of time.
Something has changed in Madanpur and Chishti, as across West Bengal. Simply put, more people seem to be supporting the BJP, a party that has been peripheral to their political vision until now. While support for Trinamool remains strong, the BJP seem to be drawing in support from the traditional Left Front households.
