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‘The liberal Western order is in a state of crisis due to its internal turmoil. From the Russia-Ukraine war to the conflict in Gaza, the Western world seems to have no answer. But is it only the external circumstances that are to blame? Dr Swasti Rao, columnist and fellow at MP-IDSA, New Delhi probes deep into the factors that have caused a crisis in the West as well as the Global South.

 'Hindu nationalists have done to Hinduism what Khalistanis and Sinhala supremacists did to Sikhism and Buddhism, Hindu exceptionalism became extinct in Ayodhya. Adherents of Hinduism can no longer claim that their faith is inherently unsuited to theocratic machinations. Hinduism in the hands of Hindu nationalists is as much a political tool as Sikhism in the hands of the proponents of Khalistan and Buddhism in the hands of Sinhala supremacists,' says author Kapil Komireddi in his opinion article.

इंदिरा गांधी ने जिन्हें इमरजेंसी में जेलों में कैद किया था उनके वारिस भारत के बुनियादी वैचारिक आधारों की आज नयी परिभाषा गढ़ रहे हैं, उन्हें उसी तरह परास्त किया जा सकता है जैसे 1970 के दशक में इंदिरा को किया गया था.----more----https://hindi.theprint.in/opinion/national-interest/republic-did-not-end-with-the-construction-of-ram-temple-take-a-lesson-from-the-fall-of-bjps-rival-indira-and-the-rise-of-modi/656590/

Legatees of political forces Indira Gandhi locked up during Emergency are now redefining some of India's foundational principles. They can be challenged, just as she was in the 1970s. Watch this week’s National Interest with ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta----more----Read Shekhar Gupta's this week National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/ayodhya-wasnt-republics-end-bjps-challengers-can-learn-from-indiras-fall-modis-rise/1940928/