Color Coding of Communal Politics

Ram Puniyani As per the reports from Ahmadabad (12th April 2015) the uniform at Shahpur School, where most of the students are Hindus, is saffron and the color of uniform in Dani Limda school where almost all the students are Muslims, the color is green. This is absolutely shocking! One knew that the ghettoization of Muslims in Ahmadabad is probably the worst in the country but whether the things will go this far was unbelievable. The process of communalization which...

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A Class Utopia in the Rāmāyaṇa

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya An imaginary land of heart's desire is known as utopia (literally, no-place, but actually meaning 'a happy place', eutopia) in Latin. Originally it is the title of a book written by Thomas More (1478-1535) in 1516. Uttarakuri was such a place in ancient India. This imaginary land was located beyond the Himalayas (for further details see Appendix A below and R. Bhattacharya, 2000, 2004). There were also wistful references to uchronia (literally, no-time, but actually meaning 'happy times'. euchronia) or the Golden Age...

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