Why Modi’s India sounds like Jinnah
As Muslims and Bengali-speaking Indians face questions over language, identity and citizenship, a country constitutionally founded in rejection of the Two-Nation Theory confronts an uncomfortable contradiction.
Utsa Pal
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At Surendranath Law College in central Kolkata, the immediate dispute was over attendance.
But after Mohammadi Tarannum, the college’s vice-principal and teacher-in-charge, left the campus under police protection on September 11 following a roughly 23-hour gherao, a section of students entered her chamber, lit incense sticks and sprinkled Ganga water across the room. They described the act as a ‘purification’ of the office.
Tarannum, who has taught at the institution for 25 years, said students...
Utsa Pal
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