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https://kafila.online/
Websites
Runtime: 862ms
On January 18, 2025, 07:56 AM UTC, https://kafila.online/ was accessible when tested on AS55836 in India.
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<p>How to denigrate India’s historic freedom struggle and humiliate the sacrifices of martyrs, and keep sermonising happily ever after</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-right"><strong>‘</strong><em>Though this be madness yet there is method in it…’</em></p>
<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>–‘Hamlet’, Shakespeare I.</em></p>
<p>The search for the real Independence Day has perhaps become longer in the Hindutva supremacist circles.</p>
<p>Close on the heels of the likes Kangana Ranaut, film actress and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament, who had (in)famously said that “<a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/kangana-says-india-attained-freedom-in-2014-and-1947-was-bheek-triggers-outrage-336839/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">India attained freedom</a> in 2014 and 1947 was ‘bheek’”, or alms and Vikram Massey, another flop Bollywood hero, questioning the freedom of 1947 as “so-called” Independence, has come the news that the <em>numero uno </em>of the Sangh Parivar, Mohan Bhagwat, has joined the ranks.</p>
<p>Speaking on the first anniversary of the Ram Temple inauguration day in Indore (as per the Hindu calendar), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/countrys-true-independence-established-on-ram-temple-consecration-day-rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-3353729?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialshare" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(RSS) chief</a> underlined that this day of consecration should actually be celebrated as “true independence” of Bharat, which faced enemy attacks “<em>parachakra</em>” for several centuries.</p>
<p>As expected, Bhagwat’s remarks have received widespread condemnation in Opposition circles. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has even called it an act of <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rahul-gandhi-says-mohan-bhagwats-remark-that-india-got-independence-after-ram-temple-was-built-amounts-to-treason/cid/2077577" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“treason”</a> and asserted that they were an affront to every Indian. He even underlined that the “[R]SS chief would have been <a href="https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/treason-rahul-gandhi-on-mohan-bhagwats-independence-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">arrested i</a>n any other country” for such controversial remarks.</p>
<p>Looking at the fact that Bhagwat happens to be the supremo of the ‘biggest cultural organisation in the world’, whose ideology drives India today, who has the complete liberty of sharing his pearls of wisdom whenever he deems it necessary, at times even boomeranging on the organisation, it is difficult to imagine that any action would be taken against him, or whether he will be censured for his controversial remarks, which are an attack on the sacrifices and historic legacy of the freedom fighters as also on the Constitution. ( Read the full text here :<a href="https://www.newsclick.in/bhagwat-puran-different-kind">https://www.newsclick.in/bhagwat-puran-different-kind</a>)</p>
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<p><em>(This is the fourth in a series of articles looking back at the Kafila experience over the last nearly two decades. Previous articles in this have been written by <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/16/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-we-should-learn-from-them/">Subhash Gatade</a>, <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/19/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-looking-back-at-a-tumultuous-experience/">Aditya Nigam</a> and <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/28/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-seventeen-years-of-beyonding/">J Devika</a>.) </em></p>
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<p>Time has a funny way of flowing, stopping, or vanishing altogether. Looking back at 2008 I cannot believe it’s been a decade and a half and a little more since I joined a motley group of friends and strangers writing for a collective blog called Kafila., who had in their own way responded to a particular historical and political moment, as <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/19/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-looking-back-at-a-tumultuous-experience/">Aditya</a> has written. At the time, I was ill-informed about the possibilities of online media in general, and in particular, of blogging as a way to Run from Big Media – our tagline. Perhaps it was for the best, since trawling through mine and others’ early essays I am struck by the sheer anarchy of topics on display. My own concerns at this prelapsarian moment ranged from the Disneyfication of childhood in America, to the global media orientalism on the solar eclipse, and student suicides and the seductions of the film industry in Mumbai. Over time, the articles on the blog became more directly political for most of us, a function possibly of the increasing polarisation in the country and region at large. I also developed some pet obsessions – sewer deaths, industrial accidents and deaths in general, and the state of higher education and teacher’s movements in India. On the whole I see now that I wanted to write most about labour. </p>
<p>When it started, Kafila to me was as a way to run from rigid editorial guidelines, the urgency of 24×7 news cycles and sometimes from one’s own intellectual and journalistic obsessions, to an open pasture where you had the space to explore a range of ideas. It did mean we unleashed ourselves on an unknown audience, but in the sixteen years that have followed since that early pasture grazing, the audience has come through and come back again and again, forming and unforming around authors, ideas, hashtags and events. The inchoate, often anonymous readership and the autonomous, deeply impassioned, even frequently explosive nature of those interactions remain to me the most treasured parts of being part of Kafila. In the posts, the comments section and in guest posts written independently or in response to one of the Kafila authors posts, the conversations would start and continue sometimes for months. Naturally, this was much more the case during ‘peak moments’ – events that the entire country and region was focused on including the IAC/Anna Movement; the Singur-Nandigram events, the Delhi gang rape of 2013 and other equally heinous rapes around the country that suddenly began to capture mainstream media’s attention; the JNU attacks and arrests and protests that followed; the suicide of Rohith Vemula; the CAA protests. </p>
<p>Looking back again, when the disillusionment with big media has not only deepened in these times but been additionally seasoned with suspicion about fake viewerships and bot troll armies, even the worst, most bruising of those reader vs author or reader vs reader fights seems like a gift the readership bestowed unknowingly on us, and on time as it passed. A stupendous archive of public engagement as it stands now – a kind of Kafilore. </p>
<p>Six years after my joining Kafila, the NDA coalition brought the Hindu supremacist BJP to power, and overnight, the sense of urgency in all of these conversations intensified manifold. To us at Kafila, even as we were getting smarter at reading the ground, and managing the technology and logistics of running an online blog, the election of 2014 brought up serious new concerns around media ownership for the mainstream press. Sometimes this had the unintended effect of strengthening the alternate media space and some Kafila members began to write for other blogs; or co-write for them, so we could reach wider and more diverse audiences. </p>
<p>To many readers from around the country and the world, the Kafila homepage may have conveyed a sense of cosiness – as if all 22 of us were not only literally on the same page on the blog, but sharing a giant living room and many cups of tea, thrashing out “the Kafila position” on things. Nothing could be further from the truth. I still – sixteen years later – haven’t met many co-authors, and know them only by their names and posts. Authors didn’t always have the time to read each other’s posts and even the smaller group that handles admin can go weeks without communication. On top of this, the fights! The intense ideological, political, intellectual disagreements that took place amongst Kafila authors – on issues ranging from our political convictions and affiliations to how to deal with anonymous comments and commentators that were becoming exhausting trolls – they are an archive of Kafilore in themselves. I remember sometimes being in a trance of comments, moderation, disputes on moderation, counter-comments and posts and email avalanches that lasted for days. </p>
<p>And looking back now, how else could it be? If we were to run from big media and party politics, we couldn’t legislate these things. We had to work them out case by case however tiring it got. Further, we had to stand behind our word when we said we allowed open disagreement and full free speech. This sometimes meant guest posting an article furiously critical of something we had written. When it happened to me, it was a sobering and humbling experience. And for that reason, likely more valuable than the posts in which I got thousands of views. I was forced to think about my unconscious prejudices, my location, and always, the question of reception in a polity as large and diverse as ours. Sadly, for many, many readers and observers and commentators on the outside, Kafila could never quite shake its image of being a clique. I hope when more histories from this incredible archive of Kafilore are written – both about the blog and the times it was responding to – that image is dented and eventually fades away.</p>
<p>In sum, I don’t think any of us – even the founding members and indefatigable warriors still active on the blog – really understood what a miracle it was to have a non-funded, independent media collective functioning for so long and with such a wide impact. We had our day jobs and daily struggles, and we were often late to the party in terms of catching up with everything that was unfolding in the alternate media space. On the other hand, Kafila was sometimes the first to notice something that mainstream media would later pick up. </p>
<p>As others have written, the online and independent/new/social media space exploded in the decade that followed Kafila’s establishment. The question of relevance of a blog like this today is always in the air when we meet or communicate, as we did at the recent panels in Bangalore and Delhi looking back at eighteen years of Kafila. Multiple exciting suggestions were offered at these events by long-time supporters or new followers. Kafila may host long-form essays in the future; a podcast or a series of short videos could be in the offing. In any case, Kafila signals a moment in the life of the country/region/world and it made something unknown appear into the light. So we continue to <em>Dissent, debate, create!</em></p>
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<p>[<em>This is the third of the “Reflection on the Kafila Journey” series. The <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/16/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-we-should-learn-from-them/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">first post in this series by Subhash Gatade</a> can be read here and <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/19/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-looking-back-at-a-tumultuous-experience/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the second by Aditya Nigam</a> can be read here.</em>]</p>
<p>I started writing on Kafila in 2007. I met Nivedita at a conference in Delhi where she listened to my research on sexuality and development in Kerala; she took me by the arm gently, persuaded me to start writing in a non-academic but rigorous style, and showed me the possibilities of the new medium. </p>
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<p><strong>Democracy Dialogues Series 35</strong> / <strong>Organised by New Socialist Initiative</strong></p>
<p>Theme : <strong>India’s Federal Democracy @ 75: Is it Secure?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Speaker : Prof Balveer Arora</strong></p>
<p>Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism and Former Professor of Political Science and Rector, JNU<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Time and Date</strong> : Sunday, 5 th January, 2025 6 PM ( IST)</p>
<p>Live Streamed on : <a href="http://facebook.com/newsocialistinitiative.nsi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">facebook.com/newsocialistinitiative.nsi</a></p>
<p><strong>Abstract :</strong>As we celebrate the 75th year of the Constitution, it is important to remember that Indian federalism flowered late. In the initial years, the development of democracy overshadowed the federal provisions of the Constitution. Certain formulations of the Constitution and single-party dominance even cast doubts on its very existence.</p>
<p>Dismissed as quasi, much was made of the preference for the term Union to question even the federal intent of the framers of the Constitution. As India’s federal polity developed, it became clearer that federalism was not merely intended but also an integral part of the basic structure of the Constitution. It was further defined and refined with asymmetrical provisions to accommodate its burgeoning diversity.Is it being denied today?</p>
<p>The federal fact is central to the understanding of contemporary Indian politics. Federalism has imparted resilience to Indian democracy. Traditionally, the concept of federalism involved relationships between central governments and federated units. Defined in legal- constitutional terms as different power distributions between the central government vis-à-vis the states and local governments, they typically limited relationships to those between governments, notably between various actors in the executive branch. We seek to go beyond this framework to look at federalism as a democratic process.</p>
<p>The threats to the federal essence of the polity are many, majoritarianism being the foremost. Majoritarian democracy is incompatible with the federal principle, which is based on the recognition of the right to self-rule for all constituents of the federal polity. Is this under siege today by an integrationist vision that seeks unity through uniformity? How can federal democracy be protected and preserved under these conditions? Can it be made more secure?</p>
<p><strong>About the Speaker</strong> : BALVEER ARORA is Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism and Former Professor of Political Science and Rector, JNU. Earlier, he was a visiting fellow at the National Political Science Foundation, Paris and the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has edited / co edited many books : Here is a list of few of his publications :<br />– Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy<br />– Multiple Identities in a Single State: Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective<br />– Party System in India: Emerging Trajectories ,<br />– Federalism in India: Origins and Development<br />– The Value of Comparative Federalism: The Legacy of Ronald L. Watts<br />– Federalism and Public Health in India: Dissonant Discourses</p>
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<p><em>An expanded version of the presentation at the panel on Kafila held as part of the W.I.P alt.FEST held in Bangalore and Delhi in December 2024</em>. <em>While the first post in this series by Subhash Gatade is linked below in the text, the <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/28/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-seventeen-years-of-beyonding/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">third by J. Devika can be read here</a></em>.</p>
<p>Kafila was formally launched on 6 November 2006 at a session of the India Social Forum in Delhi, though its first post had gone up a couple of weeks earlier, on 19 October. However, there is a prehistory to the actual formal formation of Kafila which goes back to two earlier movements that had brought many of us together.</p>
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<p>As rightly <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/16/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-we-should-learn-from-them/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mentioned by Subhash Gatade in his reflections</a>, the first of these was the movement against the relocation of polluting/ hazardous industries starting from late 1996. It was this movement that, perhaps for the first time in India brought the issue of workers’ rights into the discourse on urban pollution and environment. It took the discussions on urban planning, linking air and water pollution, zoning, transport policy and questions of workers’ occupational health, outside the charmed circles of urban planners. Initiated by the Indian Federation of Trade Unions, the formation of the Delhi Janwadi Adhikar Manch was the platform that had enabled this by bringing all of us together. </p>
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<p><em><strong>Statement by Naveddu Nilladiddare, Karnataka, a state wide network of organisations and individuals concerned with issues related to women and all human rights</strong></em></p>
<p>The tragic suicides of Atul Subhash and police constable, Tippanna Alagur in Karnataka have once again given rise to volatile debates on the ‘misuse’ of the laws related to gender violence specifically the (erstwhile) IPC 498 A and the Dowry Prohibition Act. It has provoked a PIL in the Supreme Court that seeks reform of these laws to “prevent harassment of Innocent husbands.” It has also given space for irrational and dangerous fears being unleashed by men’s rights organisations and a sensational media about “greedy and exploitative” women who are a threat to the institution of the family with their rapacious demands for maintenance and alimony. Even the Home Minister of Karnataka has legitimised these fears stating that the suicide has “opened up a debate about men’s rights” in the country. These statements and debates betray an ignorance of the processes of law in addition to a denial of violent patriarchy that continues to impact on the lives and deaths of women and men. </p>
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<p><em>Presentation at the panel on Kafila held as part of the W.I.P alt.FEST held in Bangalore and Delhi in December 2024</em>.<em> The <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/19/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-looking-back-at-a-tumultuous-experience/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">second post in the series can be read here</a> and the <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/28/reflections-on-the-kafila-journey-seventeen-years-of-beyonding/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">third by J. Devika here</a>.</em></p>
<p>They were different times.</p>
<p>Times when the space for debate and discussion had not shrunk as we it witness today, when stigmatisation of ‘others’ or ‘criminalisation of differences’ had not yet started; times when one had rarely heard about writers. rationalists or cultural workers coming under murderous attacks in this part of South Asia, just because they dared to speak the truth.</p>
<p>Perhaps it is better to begin from the beginnings.</p>
<p>One still remembers the very first meeting we had at CSDS, Delhi in Aditya’s room to discuss the idea of a blog and its launching. Apoorvanand was there, a young blogger Shivam Vij – was also present ( who became a ‘Guru’ of many of us ‘oldies’ for sometime, who were then taking baby steps in this virtual world of self publishing).</p>
<p>For me it was my first experience to be directly associated with a blog.</p>
<p>None of us had any premonition that we are in for interesting times and would be helping catalyse conversations on various issues of concern among a wide spectrum of writers, activists, scholars and concerned individuals.</p>
<p>All of us had our own teething troubles then, in fact initially I found it extremely difficult even to upload my posts on the blog and had to take the help of a close friend in the IT sector to do it. </p>
<p><strong>What is worth underlining about Kafila</strong></p>
<p>Looking back, one today feels mesmerised the way it could attract people of various shades to contribute for the blog . Thanks to the wide network of contacts of a few among us- the number of admins reached the figure of twenty two . What connected them was their unflinching opposition to communalism, capitalism, casteism, patriarchy etc and their yearning to enhance and enrich the intellectual atmosphere in their own way and promote a culture of discussion and debate in the rest of the society.</p>
<p><em>Nirbhaya </em>movement and the <em>India against Corruption </em>campaign – popularly called as <em>Anna Movement</em> were the two high points when Kafila reached its peak. One can still recall Shuddho returning from a rally in Jantar Mantar and on his way back home, posting an article on the theme which used to gather scores of comments the next morning</p>
<p>It was a period when even the mainstream magazines, publications felt it necessary to pay attention to the debates happening there and gladly rerepublished pieces which had earlier appeared on Kafila or even referred to Kafila post. Another important facet of Kafila was that there were occasions when the views of Kafila admins themselves differed but what was remarkable that it did not create any bad blood or any rancour among us. We continued to remain friends / comrades as earlier.</p>
<p>Perhaps it also had its genesis in the long bonding which had emerged between many of us during various social political interventions in the capital since mid nineties. Campaigns for defence of rights of workers (Delhi Janwadi Adhikar Manch) or struggles against communalism (Aman Ekta Manch) or issue of caste (Durban Abhiyan) etc</p>
<p><em>Anna movement</em> was the high point also because it clearly witnessed a clear division of opinion between us – few of us were completely opposed to the movement for its politics, who felt that it was a RSS inspired movement but others were equally vehement supporters of the movement, who felt that it provided a ray of hope in those times.</p>
<p>Another important point was the impact it could generate across a large sections of people.</p>
<p>It was the year 2014 ( elections were yet to be held) and one fine morning I got a call from an officer associated with a Eurozone country that he wanted to meet me. This gentleman – who was much familiar with Kafila – who had even read the morning article which had appeared in Kafila, felt that someone like me could provide him with necessary details and analysis of the unfolding situation and also the possibility of Modi’s coming to power.</p>
<p>What one observed that influence of Kafila was not restricted to only lefts and liberals, it was also read by the Rightwing.</p>
<p>A close relative of mine – who was then associated with a Hindutva Rightwing organisation but had started having doubts about their project – then had shared with me about the discussion he heard in the ‘family’ office.</p>
<p>He heard two of the seniors talking, ‘ we should learn from Kafila, look how they write and polemicise’</p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><em>Anita Ghai with friends on her birthday in 2021</em></p>
<p><em>Anita Ghai (October 23, 1958 – December 11, 2024) psychology scholar and practitioner, feminist and disability rights activist, taught at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, for about three decades, then moved to Ambedkar University Delhi, from where she retired as Professor. She is the author of <strong>(Dis)embodied Form: Issues of Disabled Women (2003),</strong> <strong>Rethinking Disability in India (2015)</strong> and a significant edited volume <strong>Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experiences (2018)</strong></em></p>
<p>How much I learnt from you, Anita my friend, and how am I performing this unthinkable task of writing your obituary! I feel as if I am writing this for you to read, for you to be gently critical about, because for sure I would have missed a nuance or two while writing about the points at which gender and disability intersect, for you cannot be written about without reference to your thinking and your scholarship. About three decades ago you sought me out to have a conversation on disability, and that destablizing conversation never ever ended. You blew open my theoretical horizons by introducing me to the field of Disability Studies, to the idea of decentering disability from a medical to a social model, to the idea that we are not divided between abled and disabled bodies, but that we all occupy a continuum of being Temporarily Abled Bodies. A sudden fracture, an illness, and within a split second you move from abled to disabled body. You wear spectacles, your hearing is mildly impaired, you have that problem in bending your wrist because of a childhood fall – each one of us is on that continuum. <a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/13/salaam-anita-1958-2024/#more-46559" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Salaam Anita! 1958 – 2024</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kafila.online/2024/12/05/democratic-teachers-initiative-seeks-solidarity-from-wider-community-against-termination-of-faculty-members-in-aud/" rel="bookmark">Democratic Teachers’ Initiative Seeks Solidarity from Wider Community against Termination of Faculty Members in AUD</a></h1>
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<p><em>We are reproducing below a statement by the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative seeking wider support from the university community in the struggle against the termination of employment of Prof Sali Mishra and Prof Asmita Kabra by the Ambedkar University Delhi administration. <strong>Those willing to sign may please do so by clicking on the link at the end of the statement.</strong></em></p>
<p>We express deep shock and rage over the termination of two esteemed faculty members of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University (AUD), Prof. Salil Misra and Prof. Asmita Kabra, and request your solidarity in building a struggle against this unprecedented and grave act of injustice.<br /></p>
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