“The Cost of Division: From Babur to ballots, how appeasement politics & Waqf Amendment Bill still tear Bharat apart”, Organiser, April 5, 2025:
“Despite clear majorities in Parliament, the fierce opposition to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 reveals how deeply rooted the politics of appeasement remains in our democracy-one that echoes the tragic disunity of our past.
In the vast chronicle of Bharat’s civilizational journey, there exists a recurring tragedy-whenever the nation stands at the threshold of reform, forces emerge from within to resist it in the name of identity, fear, or misplaced righteousness.
The recent passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, though legislatively a success, has exposed once again the old wounds of internal disunity that have plagued this land since the time of foreign invasions. The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed with a decisive mandate-288 votes in favor and 232 against in the Lok Sabha, and 128 to 95 in the Rajya Sabha…….”
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