Issue 142

The Unexpected Verdict
Postmortem of the NDA Defeat and the Congress Victory
MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR

Relics, Religion and Rivalry
The Return of the Dalada
DOLORA CHAPELLE WOJCIEHOWSKI

Of Kunti and Satyawati
Sexually Assertive Women of the Mahabharata
PRADIP BHATTACHARYA

In Letter, Not in Spirit

Tokenism Marks Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh
NAZMUNESSA MEHTAB

Rejoinder: An Alarmist Reaction
Distortions in the Name of Political Correctness
J.K. BAJAJ

The Life and Times of Bharat Mata
Nationalism as Invented Religion
SADAN JHA

Poem: Ode to Her Legs
SALEEM PEERADINA

Short Story: The Vidya Tree
NIDHI S. ASTHANA

Readers’Forum

The Girl From Kathua

About the Book:

On January 10, 2018, a little girl allegedly disappeared in Kathua district of Jammu province. Even before her body was recovered a week later, a sinister narrative was launched alleging that the girl was abducted, gang raped and killed by ‘RSS-minded’ Hindus in a Hindu temple. Talib Hussain, a PDP-Hurriyat activist with criminal antecedents led the campaign, in which Patwari Sanji Ram was declared as the ‘mastermind’.

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