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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 89–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
...H. D. S. Greenway REPORTAGE
H. D . S. Greenway is a columnist andform er editorial page editor o f the Boston Globe. He has reportedfrom India fo r
the Globe, the Washington Post, an d Tim e Magazine.
Hindu Nationalism Clouds the Face of India
H. D. S. Greenway...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 45–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ananya Vajpeyi Indian scholar Ananya Vajpeyi examines the way the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is using Sanskrit to advance a Hindu supremacist agenda. She argues that academics need to step out of the ivory tower and resist the government’s manipulation of this ancient language. Copyright ©...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 11–27.
Published: 01 September 2002
... tradition. Whenever anyone challenged
My immigrant Gujarati father is both a lib him about something he wanted to do, he
eral Democrat and a supporter of Hindu fas was fond of retorting, “Why not? I’m free,
cism. This is not as unusual as one might white, and over 21 aren’t I?” daring you...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 93–103.
Published: 01 June 2015
... at the onlookers. A blue banner above the stage reads in Hindi “Viraat Hindu Sammelan ,” or “Hindu Show of Strength.” The occasion is the golden jubilee celebration of the founding of the radical right-wing Hindu nationalist organization, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). A young woman with vermillion applied...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 60–69.
Published: 01 December 2011
... less dependent on a single leader and is quite ecumenical. “I’m a Hindu; my number two is a Muslim.” We ventured an offbeat question. We had been told Keralite Communists consulted astrologers to determine auspicious dates for important decisions. Is this true? A nervous buzz passes through the room...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 March 2003
... year as viceroy of India, he
A melancholy forgotten casualty has won London’s approval for slicing Bengal
been the Red Shirts, a nonviolent, demo into two provinces: East Bengal, comprising
cratic, and secular liberation movement that 18 million Muslims and 12 million Hindus,
once...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 91–99.
Published: 01 June 2014
... community. THE LGBT COMMUNITY NOT ONLY OCCUPIES A SPACE IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY, BUT ALSO IN SOUTH ASIA’S RICH ISLAMIC PAST. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has not fared well since the colonial-era law known as Section 377 criminalized “unnatural” forms of sexual...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 70–77.
Published: 01 June 2004
...: Waiting for Justice
Barbara Crossette
The Indian political system got two unex rewritten with Hindu overtones and Mus
pected jolts in May. First the Congress lims were slaughtered in the BjP-led state of
Party, led by Sonia Gandhi—widow and Gujarat. Many Indians voted for a renewed...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 63–68.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Ho along religious lines by the departing Brit
tel accommodations became so tight that ish, who awarded the predominantly Mus
Indian Punjabis opened up their homes to lim western half to Pakistan and the pre
the visitors, prompting sentimental newspa dominantly Hindu and Sikh eastern half...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 101–110.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., economic interests in Myanmar. Islamophobia has been growing in recent years in India, especially since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. Rising numbers of Muslims in India are being targeted—and in some cases lynched— for eating beef, falling in love with Hindus...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 79–94.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the fortnightly “Past and Present” col
umn for The Hindu of Chennai.
Opening a Window in Kashmir
Ramachandra G uha
We here recall a forgotten incident Other visitors were more celebrated, but
in the history of India-Pakistan rela no other visitor—at least no other male...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 39–46.
Published: 01 March 2000
... powers, but this would also
stan has named its Ghauri missile after a require them to stop evading the responsibil
twelfth-century Muslim military leader who ity for the decision to go nuclear, something
conquered (Hindu) parts of South Asia, In that would work against the mythology of
dia’s...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 11–24.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., was predominantly Buddhist, and the
record of kidnapping and murder in India.4 Jammu region of southwestern Kashmir,
Sheikh subsequently confessed to having which borders Pakistan-held Azad Kashmir,
helped organize a series of attacks for the was mixed Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh.
Jaish: the bombing of Jammu...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 63–73.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... More than 3,000 Tamils
Tamils largely Hindu). perished in the rioting.
In 1972, a new constitution confirmed In his authoritative study of the insur
the preeminence of the Sinhala language, gency, Tigers of Lanka: From Boys to Guerril
and of the Buddhist religion...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 90–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., government, and UN bodies must work together more effectively to prevent human rights violations, it is faith groups and their leaders who need to play a more proactive role in bringing about this change. Be they Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu, more compassion, stronger leadership, and greater courage...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that an the Second World War. Moreover, it is also
tagonists on both sides will seize the mo true— the efforts of Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan,
ment to think afresh about the cycle of vi and their allies notwithstanding— that bit
olence and reprisal that has deepened and ter Hindu-Muslim violence...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2005
... fortified against
and other sympathetic doubters worry about Hindu hegemony always lurks in the back
its future. Stephen Cohen’s book thus serves ground, as if mocking the state that strayed
as a vital aid to both policymakers and from its original purpose. This theme—
scholars. Yet it is more than...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 March 2002
... diversity of parties and leaders. Jawa fying sacred fire.4
harlal Nehru’s Indian National Congress, The imagery, taken from the Hindu
popularly known as the Congress Party, the epics but also invoking those Hindu war
chief legatee and beneficiary of the freedom riors who had later fought the Muslim...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 147–150.
Published: 01 September 2005
...).
Yet it cannot be said that Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims have set a better example.
India is still recoiling from communal riots more than a decade ago that followed the sack
ing by Hindu extremists of a Muslim mosque at Ayodah, said to mark the birthplace of the
Hindu deity Rama. More than...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 97–103.
Published: 01 June 2012
... Hindustani and Urdu—has come from India’s poets and novelists. Many deeply feel that violence done to language is ultimately violence done to literature too. With the disappearance of Hindustani, the forcible separation of Hindu and Urdu became a reality. Each language now has its own unique alphabet...
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