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Hartosh Singh Bal
Hartosh Singh Bal is the executive editor at
The Caravan
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Politics
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Essay
Hindutva’s consolidation of a varna autocracy is destroying the republic
History
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Essay
The Hindu Mahasabha’s mendacious attempt to recreate Ayodhya at Madhya Pradesh’s Kamal Maula mosque
Politics
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Commentary
Any victory in Madhya Pradesh is an RSS victory
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Politics
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News
Diminished in Modi’s shadow, Shivraj seems headed the way of most OBC leaders in the BJP
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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News
A murder, a demolition and the Scindia factor has Narendra Singh Tomar’s back to the wall
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
Modi’s India replaces constitutional values with those of the RSS
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The Sikhs are the proverbial bone stuck in the RSS’s gullet
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Essay
Under Modi, Hindutva provides sanction for crimes against humanity
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The call for banning the Bajrang Dal shows rare electoral courage
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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News
BBC Row: UK report states VHP planned Gujarat violence in advance, Godhra a “pretext”
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
Narendra Modi’s outsized image comes at the cost of a shrinking democracy
Hartosh Singh Bal
Media
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Commentary
How conglomerates corrupt the Indian media landscape
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra means little in the face of the Congress party’s organisational weaknesses
Hartosh Singh Bal
Law
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Essay
How the SIT report gave the Modi government a free pass on the 2002 Gujarat violence
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The buck stopped with Modi in 2002, and it stops with him now
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The Akali Dal no longer exists, and it may be necessary to reinvent it
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
Is there a Khan Market cast of mind?
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The Modi government profits by imposing unmanageable expectations on the farmer protests
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Excerpt
Even in 2016, Jallianwala Bagh renovations did little to evoke the horrors of mass murder
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
How the BJP is using its Hindi-belt playbook in West Bengal and succeeding
Hartosh Singh Bal
Agriculture
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Excerpt
How the Adani Group is poised to control the agricultural market following the farm laws
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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News
Paranoia about digital coverage led ministers to propose media clampdown, monitoring “negative influencers”
Hartosh Singh Bal
Agriculture
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Essay
The BJP government’s efforts to remake India’s agricultural economy for large private players
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The government is playing the same game that once led Punjab to disaster
Hartosh Singh Bal
Agriculture
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Commentary
The Modi government’s response to the farmer protests echoes colonial rhetoric
Hartosh Singh Bal
Media
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Essays
How the media becomes an arm of the government
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
How the Modi government fuels a dangerous vigilantism
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
From the Bhopal gas tragedy to Facebook and Bloomsbury, a history of corporate culpability
Hartosh Singh Bal
Conflict
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Excerpt
1984: When the Delhi Police abetted an attack on another minority
Hartosh Singh Bal
Politics
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Commentary
The Modi-Shah model of governance—stealth, self-aggrandisement and stupidity
Hartosh Singh Bal
Technology
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Interview
After the Harappans, large influx brought steppe DNA into South Asia: Geneticist Vagheesh Narasimhan
Hartosh Singh Bal
Religion
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Excerpt
The Akal Takht’s call to ban RSS reiterates Sikhism’s long resistance to a Hindu Rashtra
Hartosh Singh Bal