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  • India's new normal: rape of forms, of psyches!

    By Humra Quraishi
    Apr 20, 2018

    Yes, today, fascism seems so well seeped in, that even little girls can be raped and gang-raped by men connected to the very system.

  • Judge Loya case: Lack of political focus on RSS gave CJI the opportunity to dismiss petitions!

    By Amaresh Misra
    Apr 20, 2018

    I have read the judgement by CJI dismissing an independent inquiry in the Judge Loya case. It is a revelation.  The judgement skirts the major issue of the mysterious circumstances in which Judge Loya died. Instead, the focus ...

  • Belittling Nehru’s Legacy will Harm India’s Democracy

    By Ram Puniyani
    Apr 17, 2018

    Last few years there is a concerted attempt on the part of the ruling BJP to ignore and undermine the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minster of India, the architect of Modern India. In the international meets his name is deliberate...

  • Dr King had a 'prophetic premonition'

    By Sumit Paul
    Apr 05, 2018

    April 4, 2018 was the 50th year of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's martyrdom. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a white supremacist, on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, US. It's said, and also endorsed by Dr King's wife Coretta Scott ...

  • Ebbing away of sporting spirit is the reflection of a universal moral crisis

    By Sumit Paul
    Mar 29, 2018

    'Ebbing away of the cricketing or sporting spirit is the reflection of a universal moral crisis,' wrote the legendary cricket scribe Ray Robinson of Australia in an article in 1981 when Trevor Chappell of Australia bowled underarm to wi...

  • Indian Muslims in search of a new Gandhi

    Mar 24, 2018

    Being religious along with being a secular patriot is not only a possibility but rather a phenomenon that forms the basis of our Indian history. We don’t need to choose one but need instead to try to be both!

  • Ramachandra Guha, Sadly

    By Abhay Kumar
    Mar 24, 2018

    The discourse of 'modernity' has now been fully appropriated by the majoritarian communalists who use it as a stick to beat Muslims with, as seen in the case of triple talaq.

  • BJP’s Political Ego punctured in UP & Bihar!

    By Nilofar Suhrawardy
    Mar 23, 2018

    Paradoxically, BJP’s defeat also marks its failure to analyse the key factors responsible for its victory from UP last year in the assembly elections as well as in 2014 parliamentary elections.

  • BJP’s Forays in North Eastern States and anti Minority Agenda

    By Ram Puniyani
    Mar 22, 2018

    From last couple of decades one is coming across the pamphlets, leaflets and other material containing the propaganda that Christian missionaries are converting the people at rapid pace; the examples mostly given have been...

  • Communist Liberals, Sadly, Islamophobic

    By Sharjeel Ahmad
    Mar 20, 2018

    Majoritarianism is a grave threat to the secular fabric of India and Muslim conservatism is an offshoot of this same Hindutva Majoritarianism; not vice versa.

  • "Sonia, Sadly" — but Indian Muslims live like kings

    Mar 19, 2018

    Harsh Mander's article "Sonia, Sadly" was published by mainstream Indian media this week. The core message of the article was emphasizing on the assumption that the political parties don't want to associate themselves with the...

  • HAATHI-LAATHI-786 — Dalits-OBCs-Muslims: Understanding UP anew through by election results

    By Amaresh Misra
    Mar 15, 2018

    2019 cannot be fought on the old plank of electoral politics...Will the Congress rise to the occasion? Are the SP-BSP going to develop an anti-liberalization, pro-poor, alternative?

  • Muslims should strategise their political stepping!

    Mar 13, 2018

    We owe this to the majority of the Indians, who continue to be secular, and also owe it to ourselves as a community to stop being mere puppets at play, that continue being exploited for political gains.

  • Tripura Ends CPM Tedium By Trading Decency For False Eldorado

    By Saeed Naqvi
    Mar 10, 2018

    This may sound odd, but the reasons for the rout of the CPM in Tripura are, to some extent, similar to the ones responsible for the decline of West Indian cricket.

  • Thank you, Wonder Woman!

    Mar 08, 2018

    As 8 March approaches once again, I am simply overwhelmed remembering the many women in my life! I stop and wonder whether it is a mere ‘cosmetic’ exercise, a kind of ‘tokenism’ or is there something more?

  • PM Modi’s Muslim outreach: Ground level follow up can garner support

    By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
    Mar 02, 2018

    Modi's speech on the occasion of the Jordanian King's visit to India in the presence of a thousand plus Indian Muslims evokes an aura of a paradigm shift from his erstwhile perceived policy.

  • India Under Hindutva: What standards? Double standards!

    By Humra Quraishi
    Mar 01, 2018

    Double standards all the way, even where as serious a crime as rape is concerned. Different treatment meted out to the rapists if they are from the corridors of power or if they rape whilst communal rioting is on.

  • On Justin Trudeau and Indo-Palestine relations

    By Humra Quraishi
    Feb 22, 2018

    Needless for me to add that a man who can take care of his wife and children is sure to take care of his nation and its people.

  • Valentine's Day has dehumanised love

    By Sumit Paul
    Feb 12, 2018

    'February is the month of love because spring is on us Yet it seems that there's a futile and unnecessary fuss Valentine Day also comes along with message of love But there remains love which's different and far above ...

  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali throws Indian women under bus with ‘Padmaavat’

    By Kaleem Kawaja
    Feb 11, 2018

    From the beginning, the basic purpose of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie Padmaavatwas to promote the right-wing Hindutva agenda. Part of that agenda is to show that most Muslim rulers, who ruled significant parts of India for more than...