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‘As a Dalit, I was ready to die for RSS, but they wouldn’t even touch food I had cooked’

by admin|19 October 202219 October 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer October 19, 2022 This is one of a handful of episodes during the recording of which I wept. Bhanwar Meghwanshi, a Dalit, was fanatically devoted to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), ready to go to war for its...

Can the Bharat Jodo Yatra revive the Congress and Brand Rahul?

by admin|01 October 202201 October 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer October 1, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Gandhi undertook the Dandi March as part of the Salt Satyagraha more than 90 years ago to energise the freedom struggle and...

Audio podcast: ‘When it comes to hate, people don’t want neutrality; they want an echo chamber’

by admin|10 November 202110 November 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 10, 2021 The politics of hate can be traced back to Partition and even before that but only now has it become so rabid and a matter of pride. Sachin Garg, bestselling author, media columnist and TEDx...

Heroism and compassion amid the horrors of Partition – Part 2

by admin|17 September 202117 September 2021|All Indians Matter

Bibi Amtus Salam ending her 26-day fast after the signing of the peace pledge in Sirandi. Photo credit: MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence This is the final installment of a two-part series on the acts of courage, which symbolised the...

Heroism and compassion amid the horrors of Partition – Part 1

by admin|16 September 202116 September 2021|All Indians Matter

Mahatma Gandhi (above) surveying a post-riot scene in the aftermath of Partition. Photo credits: Gandhi Research Foundation This is the first installment of a two-part series on the acts of courage, which symbolised the syncretic heritage of the subcontinent, amid...

Hate and violence in India, Part 3: Cauldron of communal violence bubbling over (audio podcast)

by admin|24 February 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

This concludes the three-part series on communal strife in India over the decades. Ashraf Engineer February 24, 2021 Perhaps never before have majoritarian forces been on the ascendant in this manner. One of the results of this is the systematic...

Why the RSS needs to invent a Sanghi Gandhi

by admin|11 January 202111 January 2021|All Indians Matter

Tushar Gandhi, January 12, 2020 The book released by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. The ideology that murdered Mahatma Gandhi is now desperately attempting to bastardise his principles. On January 1, 2021, Mohan Bhagwat, the supremo of the Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh...

Audio podcast: One year of the CAA

by admin|21 December 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer December 21, 2020 AUDIO CLIP Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. It’s been a year since the Indian government introduced the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, which sparked protests across the...

India’s unending pandemic of hate

by admin|23 June 202023 June 2020|All Indians Matter

Tushar Gandhi June 24, 2020 Hate has been a human trait forever. Hate is unique – it destroys the hater much more than the object of hate. Anger is a manifestation of hate, Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) said that anger is...