Has secularism ever fulfilled its mandate in India or has it been sidelined by communal politics?
Caught between a deep citizenry and a political system based on religion, secularism is threatened as an ideal and as a practice.
Indian secularism has had a turbulent history in which political opportunism exchanged secular ideals for power.
Right-wing forces march to the forefront around the world in worrying development
Secularism, in fashionable terms, primarily means the separation between faith and state, yet it has been interpreted all over the world.
Updated: 10 november 2022 15:43
• More than 6,500 migrant employees from Asia, including India, have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the 2022 World Cup 10 years ago. More than a portion of the deaths of migrant employees in Qatar have been attributed to “unknown causes,” “natural causes” or “cardiovascular disease. “The reaction of the World Cup committee is silent on the reimbursement factor and whether the cause of those deaths would be analyzed.
• Sunke Rajaiah, 55, a migrant worker from Kondapur village in Jagtial district, Telangana, expired on 14 April 2014 in a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His circle of relatives waited almost five months to see his mortal remains due to the Covid pandemic and the suspension of flights as a component of the confinement.
• Twelve Indians were among 17 others who died in Dubai in 2019 when a bus, basically carrying tourists from Oman’s Eid, entered a limited lane and hit a low-clearance sign.
Thirteen workers, including Indians, were killed and 14 others injured in Dubai when the minibus they were travelling in collided with a parked truck in 2014. Rashid Hospital and emergency center on Saturdays.
• Five Indian employees were killed in a twist of fate in Saudi Arabia in 2014 when the van they were travelling in overturned due to a tire explosion on a road. Those killed were known as Muhammad Saleem, 32, Muhammed Nawas, 26, Noushad, 26, Thondiyil Koru Sridaran, 35 and Kottiyattil Janardhanan, 40.
• In February 2013, at least 22 migrants were killed when a truck full of gravel with faulty brakes hit their bus.
• Indian worker Athiraman Kannan followed his regime in the hours leading up to his jump from the world’s tallest construction in 2011, Burj Khalifa. Isolated and stressed, he told friends he planned to stop by and settle the matter a few days before his death. Local media said Kannan had been denied permission to take leave, a fee his employer, Arabtec, strongly denies.
Devendra, 27, laying water pipes with two other Indian workers, Gangayya and Bala Lingam, in a three-meter-deep trench at a structure site in Bahrain’s Salmabad region in 2008 when the wall surrounding them collapsed on Saturday. Devendra buried alive and the other two were injured.
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