So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a right balance.
One cynic says that after every election, the new Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes erected by the previous regime.
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class, with their requirement for degrees and skills training.
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
In India it is the season for rediscovering Gandhi, and everyone from politicians to intellectuals are doing it in their own way.
The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and freedom of expression.
Ironically, the message of scientific temper, modernity, secularism resonated more in India when the rate of literacy was low. Distinctions between science and mythology and mythology and history keep eroding.
Thousands of young men have 'disappeared' in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults. But the fight for answers and justice continues.
The State of Israel came into being thirty-one years after the Balfour Declaration, precisely because Zionist Jews were done entrusting their fate to others.
