Communalism in Gujarat; beyond the ugly practices of organised religion; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [What Communalism in Gujarat Looks Like]( Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta [“Modi is a strong leader. He can take decisions quickly. See how he showed Pakistan its aukaat (status),” Manorama Kundariya, a middle-aged woman in Rajkot said, while talking about about the army’s surgical strike on a terrorist camp across the LoC as one of Modi’s achievements. Bashing Pakistan and defaming Gujarati Muslims almost always happens together, as if they have some sort of organic linkage. A large section of middle class Hindus base their understanding of nationalism on huge doses of Islamophobia, a campaign aggressively pursued by the Sangh parivar, especially in urban Gujarat. The most important part of the reasoning for Modi’s popularity in Gujarat, according to many, was the muscularity he displayed against Muslims.]( [December Ought to Be a Month of Remorse and Introspection for Hindus]( Apoorvanand [Is it dharma to oust someone from their holy place?]( [Beyond the Ugly Practices of Organised Religion]( Avijit Pathak [Why is it that everything is upside down, and all that happens in the name of religion is divisive, oppressive and morally repugnant?]( [Is Economics Really Robbing Poor Women of Their Reproductive Rights?]( Nilakantan R.S. [In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy suggests that the entire edifice of modern economics was built to serve a conspiratorial purpose.]( [In Final Lap, Modi is Grappling With a Race That is Wide Open]( Kinsgshuk Nag [The party feels the first phase of voting did not go well and is looking to its rhetoric on Pakistan for a decisive edge in the second.]( [To Continue Seeking Padmini Is to Miss the Point Once Again]( Ramya Sreenivasan [We need to ask why the Rajputs of Rajasthan and Gujarat did not protest a series of Hindi films on their history made since the 1950s, but now protest every single film they believe usurps their monopoly.]( [By Linking Ahmed Patel and Pakistan, Modi Is Deflecting From the Real Issues in Gujarat]( Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta [A worsening agrarian crisis and rising unemployment has morphed into concrete political anger against the BJP – a matter that the party hasn’t addressed in its election campaign.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](