While motherhood may be associated with nurturing bodies and minds, in contemporary Hindu nationalist discourse it also acquires a more active obligation to protect.
Gender perspectives are essential to understanding the means through which populist radical right parties instrumentalize women’s rights, often in profoundly contradictory terms.
Post-democracy is the latest wave of post-communist transformation – the result of state capture and the alienation of citizens from the democratic project.
The court says that a Hindu mob broke the law when it demolished a 500-year-old mosque – but Hindus can now build a temple there anyway. This isn’t the end of the matter.
Did we learn from this that it is necessary to support and encourage citizens who fight for democracy and human rights, to promote their access to the negotiating table? No.
