If you are going to read one piece today, let it be this. A brilliant analogy descriptive of constructs vis a vis our national reality, clear as water, you'd like to read more and dignity deep into realities. Journalistic op ed like this has in it to bring culture of praxis back.

'Travelling through parts of western Uttar Pradesh, where several districts have Muslim populations larger than the state average of 20%, one finds that the mistrust towards Muslims is still fuelling the saffron party’s prospects.' thewire.in/politics/mistr…

“When the economy grows faster, then a pie growing bigger quickly also leads to increasing inequality ... We thought that the free market would take care of it but it has not.” - Nitin Kumar Bharti

yashraj sharma reports on our World Inequality Lab | WID.world study.

aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4…

What Dhruv Rathee is doing towards deradicalisation of the majority is truly commendable

youtu.be/Z1wk1n8peBk?si…

Jews were used as scapegoats and blamed in medieval Europe for causing the plague. Muslims were used as scapegoats during covid in India. And now PM Modi‘s statements have bestowed an official stamp of approval to an informal regime policy of scapegoating Muslims.

By Asim Ali

“Muslims want to take your wealth and destroy you”

Meanwhile, average Indian Muslim:

Apparently this is a real event. And these Aryavarta acharyas will be conducting their discussion in English.

#Opinion | The scapegoating of Sri Lankan Tamils has broadly followed similar patterns as in India, even if the axis of persecution took place more on ethnic rather than religious lines, writes Asim Ali
#ModiGovt #Tamil #srilanka #Rajasthan #Muslims
telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-sc…

Yet another brilliant piece!

Do read..

This tactic employed by Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese Buddhist extremists to target Tamils sounds very familiar 🤔

Great article as usual by Asim.

Interpreting the PM's hate speech through Rene Girard's theory of scapegoating: a mechanism to reinstitute the legitimacy of hierarchical structures of a social order. And the similarities between majoritarian extremists in India & Sri Lanka.

telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-sc…

Remembered this Chris Rock bit..

youtu.be/bZWeFtgEAEk?si…

...From Modi's 2019 interview to Express 👀

the most noise within the anti-bjp section against such ideas will come from an urban liberal elite who claim to oppose the bjp. they just don't like discussing their caste.