Tag: minority community
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Will Rahul seize the day if he goes to Nagpur?
By Amulya Ganguli, If Rahul Gandhi participates in the meeting called by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to discuss the country’s future, he can take the opportunity to seek clarifications on the organisation’s worldview. The replies by the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, to the Congress president’s questions cannot but have an impact on the outfit’s…
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New law not enough to stop mob violence
By Amulya Ganguli, Although the Supreme Court has suggested that a law be enacted specifically to deal with the “new normal” of lynchings, it will be advisable to widen the scope of the legal remedy to include all forms of mob violence, even if doubts are likely to remain about the efficacy of the proposed…
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How can the Congress shed its ‘Muslim party’ image?
By Amulya Ganguli, Ever since the A.K. Antony committee identified the Congress’s Muslim “appeasement” tag as a major reason for its electoral reverses, the 133-year-old Grand Old Party (GOP) has been unable to formulate a clear-cut policy on the country’s largest minority community. In a transparent attempt to shed the derogatory label given by its…
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‘Students divided in name of common school system’
New Delhi : Common schools for everyone will in “no way result” in education of masses, as “students are divided” in schools in the name of uniformity, an academician said on Wednesday. At a meet on ‘Exploring Current Educational Scenario – Issues and Possible Solutions’, Delhi University history professor Vikas Gupta said: “It is not…