CONTENTS: Foreword, Preface, Part I: IDENTITY AND POLITICS: Chapter 1: Maintaining and Bridging Identities: The Path from Destructive Division to Creative Cohesion -Kuruvilla Pandikattu, Chapter 2: Memory, Identity and Resistance -Joel Dsouza, Chapter 3: The Phenomena of Passionate Politics in the Indian Public Sphere -V. Sebastian, Part II: INTER-RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNAL DYNAMICS: Chapter 4: Communal Harmony and Conflict: Analyzing India’s Inter-Religious Dynamics -Midhun J. F. Kochukallan, Chapter 5: Gandhi in Post-Consecration Ceremony of Ram Temple -Rajeev Ranjan, Chapter 6: The Hawala Parallel Economy: A Cultural Marker Provoking Othering -Nirmal Savio Paul, Part III: VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Chapter 7: Addressing Gender-Based Violence -Patricia Santos, Chapter 8: State Terrorism and Human Rights Violations: The Unsettling Facts Exposed by the Human Rights Defender Fr Stan Swamy -Benny Chiramel, Chapter 9: Dictates of Neoliberal Capitalism: Exploring the Discourses of India’s NEP 2020 -Vincent Pereppadan, Part IV: PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: Chapter 10: Development of God Image as Understood Through Object Relation: Approach from the Viewpoints of Donald Winnicott and Ana-Maria Rizzuto -Arokiaraj Patrick, Chapter 11: Dynamics of Rumors: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Perspectives -Dolichan Kollareth, Chapter 12: Competency Crisis in Higher Education: Youth Unemployment and Marginality -Ranjit George Part V: DEMOCRACY, POPULISM, AND RATIONAL DISCOURSE: Chapter 13: Majoritarian Politics and the Suppression of Freedom in Democratic India -John Karuvelil, Chapter 14: Populism, Scientific Temper, and Peacebuilding -Binoy Jacob Pichalakkattu, A Message from Anthony da Silva SJ, Publications by Anthony da Silva SJ, Contributors.