'It did not start as a Hindutva slogan.''It started to tease the TMC and slowly it got internalised and the BJP started countering with Jai Shri Ram slogans because Mamata was getting provoked.'......
'Right now, only religious groups of Hindus and Muslims are working on the ground.' 'The government is missing.' IMAGE: Khushi plays with toys in her burnt house, damaged in the communal clashes......
India's majoritarian regime is now making a dangerously fast-paced move towards theocracy, like its western counterpart did a few decades ago, warns Mohammad Sajjad. Photograph: Jitendra Prakash /......
'If they were really serious (about conferring the Bharat Ratna on Savarkar) what were they doing for the last five years?''Why do they have to take so long?''Gandhi himself never got the Bharat......
'The mobilisation is nothing but a political ploy -- a sort of a fixed match between Hindu and Muslim communal forces, towards polarisation, in a run-up to the next election,' argues Mohammad......