Incomplete Fragments of an Unfinished Period 1 by Sarika Rao, Marianne Keppens, Nele De Gersem and Sufiya Pathan Terrorist attacks by so-called Muslim fundamentalists have been a common phenomenon since 9/11. Even though it is not the first time such an attack has occurred in Europe, with the Paris bombings a general feeling is … Continue reading How Europe Is Succumbing to Terrorism
A Crowdfunding Proposal What The goal of this proposal is to involve you, via crowdfunding, in a very focused project on the past and current problems of bureaucratic and political control of Hindu temples and traditions in India. Context The erstwhile colonial masters of India, the British, had contempt and disgust for ‘Hinduism’, the so-called majority … Continue reading Freeing the Indian Traditions? Government Control of Temples in India and Freedom of Religion
by Garima Raghuvanshy and M. S. Chaitra Rohith Vemula committed suicide on the 17th of January. Since then protests have erupted across the country. International commentators, academics, and university students have raised their voices, demanding action and exclaiming horror against the caste system. Even though it has been abolished officially, intellectuals, Ambedkarites, and other activists assert … Continue reading A Dictator Without Body and Mind – caste censorship in India
Incomplete Fragments of an Unfinished Period 3 By Garima Raghuvanshy and Jakob De Roover On 26 November 2008, three days of bloodshed and horror unfolded in Mumbai as a group of terrorists spread across the city, indiscriminately murdering civilians and striking iconic locations. On 13 November 2015, the attacks in Paris caused a similar spate of … Continue reading Paris, Mumbai, and the Terrorist ‘Assault on Freedom’
Incomplete Fragments of an Unfinished Period 2 By Jakob De Roover and Sarika Rao Nationalism is the ultimate pestilence that has destroyed the flower of our European culture. Thus wrote the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig in his 1942 memoirs. Zweig sent the manuscript to the publisher the day before he and his wife committed suicide. They … Continue reading The Pestilence of Rabid Nationalism
Oh Europa, My Lady, Whither are you Going? An Open Letter, January 2012 My Lady, I wanted to write this letter and share with you my thoughts at the turn of the millennium itself. I could not; I had to wait a full twelve years to be able to do that, a time-frame significant to … Continue reading An Open Letter to Europa
