The Shifting Sites of Secularism Cultural Politics and Activism in India Today Rustom Bharucha There can be no one agenda for the secular struggle in India today, but several intersecting, colliding, overlapping agendas that converge and clash around the realities and pressures of communalism, multiculturalism and globalisation. Within the maelstrom of these forces, secularism is at once threatened and resistant, in the process of articulating new dimensions in its philosophy and practice but also struggling to survive in a state of profound instability. If secularism is in a state of crisis, it is also in the making.