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[Column] Why Shame Weighs Me Down This Independence Day
Edited version of this column was first published on National Herald. →
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What Is Nationalism? Rashtravad राष्ट्रवाद क्या है?
I have made a few tweets on Nationalism on Twitter. Here I am presenting a collection of my tweets. Besides gender and public space, gender and nationalism is my other important topic of research and it is becoming more and more important in the wake of the rising hyper masculine aggressive Hindu nationalism in India… →
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Wife Not Husband’s Chattel: SC in Hadiya case – Whose Chattel Hadiya Really Is Then?
25 year old Hadiya’s story is on everybody’s coffee table these days in India. An entire nation is threatened by an adult woman’s right to choose her religion and husband. Last Monday, after eleven months of house arrest under her father’s control, Hadiya (formerly Akhila) for the first time appeared before the testified before a… →
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Race, gender and nation: Case of Afghanistan
How does a woman reconcile and negotiate her cultural identity with the gender identity where her culture is inherently oppressive to women. →
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Why Every Feminist Should Refuse to Say Bharat Mata Ki Jai
Hyper sexualized images of women in Bollywood item numbers strip them off their identity and reduce them to object of sexual gratification. The image of ‘Bharat Mata’ does exactly the same for the nationalist or patriotic gratification of its citizens. →
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My feeling of patriotism in a BJP ruled India
“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ” ~Rabindranath Tagore Every Independence Day and Republic Day I grapple with the concept of patriotism and nationalism. Am… →
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Dr Sanjukta Basu 