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Maha Kumbh Mela Stampede: Why India’s Pilgrimages Keep Turning Deadly
Akash Chopra 3 February 2025

On January 28, 2025, a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, resulted in the deaths of at least 30 people and left hundreds injured. The incident at one of the world’s largest religious gatherings once again exposed the vulnerabilities of India’s mass pilgrimages. While such events are deeply embedded in the country’s cultural and religious fabric, they have increasingly become political battlegrounds where governance failures, political patronage, and infrastructural shortcomings intersect with faith.
Human Rights, Political Theory
The Weaponization of India’s State Against Diversity
Nandini Sundar 3 August 2022

Citizens who are member of societal, ethnic or religious minorities are per se more vulnerable than the rest of a country’s population. That should be the case in India, too. Yet rather than being protected by the State, many of them are facing increasing hurdles, if not outright harassment through public measures. Prof. Nandini Sundar explains how.
Human Rights, International Affairs
India’s State Elections Promise to Consolidate BJP’s Most Troubling Policies
Maria Tavernini 22 March 2022

The landslide victory of Narendra Modi’s ruling party paves the way for his re-election in 2024. Anti-Muslim policies are set to be reinvigorated.
The Militant Revival of Religion
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study 10 March 2015

“Many from my generation believed that religion would disappear,” notes Michael Walzer, editor emeritus of Dissent magazine and Professor at the Institue for Advanced Study in Princeton. “Instead, it came back: politicized, modern, militant and anti-liberal.” In secular nations such as Algeria, India and Israel, we can observe a violent return to religion. What happened? Michael Walzer, interviewed by Reset-DoC, asks: “Was it a mistake not to engage critically with religious culture?”