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Yesterday was International Reading Day. I thought about it for a while and realized that I had a problem. I have never had a reading year that felt so fragmented. When the year began, I was reading philosophy. Considering it was my birth month, that was perhaps an unusually gloomy way to celebrate being alive. Yet it made sense. Over the last few years, my reading has increasingly shifted toward philosophy, politics and history. Somewhere along the way, those three areas qui

The recent political storm around Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remarks on Sanatana Dharma once again exposed how impossible it has become in India to separate religion from ideological performance. His earlier speech, where he compared Sanatana Dharma to social diseases that needed to be eradicated, triggered outrage across the country, especially among Hindutva organizations and North Indian political commentators who immediately framed the statement as an attack on Hinduism itself.