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Harsh Mander: How cow slaughter bans have annihilated farm, meat and leather livelihoods (opens the original)
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The gentle cow – beloved in the Indian tradition for millenia – has today been weaponised by Bharatiya Janata Party governments and Hindutva mobs. Weaponised for hate and fear, for lynching, for incarceration, for erasure and for mass impoverishment. Cow slaughter is now legal only in eight states, including Kerala, Goa, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura. Most other states under Bharatiya Janata Party governments have seen cow protection laws from the past
In a new book, Harsh Mander looks at the far-reaching consequences of hate speech on social media (opens the original)
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When powerful and extensively financed political parties join hands with social media giants, both benefit formidably. A study by the Tech Justice Law Project (TJLP) that focused on the Jharkhand state assembly elections of 2024 observed that a huge proportion of expenditure on political advertisements was by usually anonymous “shadow advertisers”. Shadow political advertising is undisclosed spending on behalf of a political candidate or party. This is not allowed in Indian law, but still thrive
Harsh Mander: Hindutva’s boycott calls seek the economic erasure of India’s Muslims (opens the original)
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The organised economic boycott of vulnerable and oppressed communities has scarred Indian society for millennia. India’s caste system excluded “untouchable” castes from employment in dignified vocations for since ancient times. This cruel arrangement has trapped them for centuries in want and penury, in illiteracy and in humiliating vocations. The core of the Sangh project is to thrust Muslims into this same depressed zone. Boycotts in history have also been a force for good. The boycott of fore
Harsh Mander: Gurugram’s surrender to majoritarian politics (opens the original)
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Gurgaon over many centuries was little more than a small rural hamlet in the periphery of the towering city of power Delhi. Across the ages possibly its best known resident was Hemu Vikramaditya, a general in the army of Sher Shah Suri who defeated the forces of Humayun and later Akbar. Gurgaon gained some modest standing only as the customary resting place for Akbar’s entourage when they marched to Amber. Its fortunes altered after Independence. Badly singed by the fires of the Partition riots
Harsh Mander: Instagram satyagrahis led India’s great student uprising with humour and courage (opens the original)
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India will never be the same after July 20. Something moved, something changed in a country that had for too long been broken by fear and hate. We saw the beginning of the mending of this fractured land. And this was accomplished by the uprising of hundreds of thousands of young people around the country, young people of every faith, caste, class, language and culture. They were the satyagrahis of the Instagram generation. On July 20, the morning when the protesting students had announced a marc
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