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Showing posts with label Indian Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Society. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Muslims ahead on nutrition, health indicators: Status of women, dietary discrimination in other communities

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Firstly, this post is not for those who've no interaction with Muslims but have preconceived notions about the com...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Dealing with Dissent: Term a person 'troublemaker', demolish house or attach property, make entire family suffer

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Unfortunately, it is becoming common to initiate proceedings for attachment of property or ordering demolition of a ho...
Monday, August 03, 2020

Coronavirus shows inequality in 'system': Celebrities get facilities but ordinary citizens run from pillar to post, suffer

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Coronavirus has once again brought to fore the inequalities in the 'system'. That, how it is unfair towards no...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Vilification of Muslims as a political strategy: Majoritarian tendencies and obsession with minority in Indian society

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi A cab driver who was not earning well, even before Coronavirus, still felt that 'all Muslims were poor'. ...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

From Hinduism to Hindutva: How fundamentalism changed religion and society in India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In early 90s, right-wing leaders were addressing a public rally near my house. I was passing by and stopped....
Friday, June 19, 2020

Dealing with 'dissent' in democracies: 'Discredit, defame, destroy' is the strategy but a bad one

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In an ideal or even a functional democracy, there must be freedom to speak up, question and criticise government...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Dirty secrets of Indian media: How newspapers cleverly mould public opinion that eventually hurts citizens, country

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi People often wonder why citizens don't react to injustice or brutalities in India, the way people do in other...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Lack of compassion in society, insensitivity and blaming the 'other' syndrome in India: Sufferings on the Streets during lock down for Coronavirus

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi *That's our society--teenaged girl took father on cycle from Delhi to Bihar--1200 kms. And we're not ash...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Indian society and politics: How 'identity interest' overrides 'own interest', force us to vote for those who endanger our future

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi This post was written after a recent discussion regarding former PM Manmohan Singh, who despite his simplicity,...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Class discrimination: Inherent social prejudices against poor in Indian society

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Two days ago, I was with a friend. He kept blaming 'slum-dwellers' for everything that's bad in the country. When youths pa...