Opinions

  • Ahmad Patel Barely Survives to Keep Sonia’s Rahul Hopes Alive

    By Saeed Naqvi
    Aug 12, 2017

    Parties fight to advance their mission or when parties face adversity. The Congress fights when chosen leaders are in trouble. A reversal for Ahmad Patel in Gujarat would have been an enormous loss of face for Sonia.

  • Saira Bano & Dilip Kumar; Ustad Dagar; Why does Uttarkhand have so many Langurs?

    By Humra Quraishi
    Aug 11, 2017

    It was obvious that Dilip Kumar hated this intrusion, and in chaste Urdu he said that I should have come only and only with a prior appointment, and they being so very busy here in New Delhi, did not have the time to say even a word.

  • Pope Francis’ efforts to promote inter-religious unity: A lesson for current day India

    By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
    Jul 30, 2017

    In mid July 2017, the Interfaith Coalition for Peace organized a talk at India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), New Delhi by Prof. Father Michael Calabria, Director of the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies at St. Bonaventure Universityof USA...

  • Palestine: Loving resistance calls us to dare more than words

    Jul 06, 2017

    We begin this issue with wise words from an apostle of peace- Mahatma Gandhi. It was 78 years ago when Mahatma Gandhi called on the Jews to abandon military domination and work, instead, towards peaceful co-existence based on good will. It is s...

  • Hardcore Right-wing might prevailing; Who will take on China?

    By Humra Quraishi
    Jul 05, 2017

    New Delhi: I try and avoid going for meets, seminars and conferences on the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley and also the grim realities facing the Muslims in India. The ‘why’ to this is rather simplistic: everyone is well...

  • GST: Have Uniform tax on Accumulated Wealth, not on Income and Expenditure

    By Dr. Javed Jamil
    Jul 03, 2017

    Having a uniform tax at the national level is a welcome move. But the problem is that the world philosophy of Taxation based on taxing Income and Expenditure rather than accumulated wealth is so much tilted in the favour of the rich that it end...

  • Racism and slavery in India: Clubbing exclusiveness

    By Sumit Paul
    Jul 03, 2017

    Delhi Golf Club is in the news for not giving entry to a lady, Tailin Lyngdoh, from Meghalaya because she was not properly attired. In other words, her attire was not in sync with the club's sartorial protocol.  This reminds me of ...

  • Not In My Name — Beware when the faceless citizen resists tyranny

    Jul 03, 2017

    If tyranny comes, can freedom be far behind?

  • My sweet memories of Eidul-Fitr

    By Sumit Paul
    Jun 25, 2017

    My Muslim lady professor of Urdu, who guided and assessed my M. Phil and PhD thesis on Urdu poet Raghupati Sahay Firaq Gorakhpuri's poetry at Islamabad University, Pakistan, still sends me Eidee and new clothes.

  • The unfailing law of the Universe

    By Sumit Paul
    Jun 20, 2017

    A few days ago, I bought four mangoes from a famous mango trader in Poona. His mangoes are famous all over Maharashtra and he also exports mangoes to the Gulf and European countries. But as luck would have it, all four mangoes turned out to be ...

  • Kudos to Pakistani cricket team

    By Sumit Paul
    Jun 19, 2017

    Pakistani cricket team has done it again! In 1992 World Cup, even an incorrigible optimist didn't give a ghost of a chance to Pakistan to clinch the World Cup. Yet it won under the efficient stewardship of Imran Khan Niyazi and stunned...

  • Fear and love cannot co-exist, but what does the Quran say, Love Allah or Fear Him?

    By Sumit Paul
    Jun 19, 2017

    It gets my goat when someone says that he or she's a god-fearing person. 'To be god-fearing is to be god-unloving because fear and love can't co-exist,' said Jiddu Krishnamurthy. Yours truly has been an eternal non-believer, yet...

  • How to solve the Kashmir crisis

    Jun 09, 2017

    There is likelihood of Kashmir facing increased unrest and major violence this summer. Government of India should without delay initiate a dialogue with civil society and moderate groups.

  • Qatar in the crosshairs of the American expansionist, extortionist plans

    By Humra Quraishi
    Jun 07, 2017

    I have fond memories of Qatar. Nah, not that I ever travelled to that Gulf state but in the mid-1980s its envoy to India, Dr Hassan Al Nimah, hosted a series of baithaks at his Tees January Marg home here in New Delhi. It wasn’t any of th...

  • Gau Rakshaks and Mob Justice

    Jun 03, 2017

    The emergence of Gau Rakshaks was a sort of trial made by BJP to check whether the implementation of the ultra-right ideology and violent means would prove successful for the party in the near future.

  • Uttar Pradesh is having a government of questionable validity: need for impartial probe

    Jun 01, 2017

    Selecting small samples to estimate the true value or quality or behavior of a large group has been a widely accepted practice for many years. Over the years, sampling techniques have been improved and made scientific to ensure reliable estimat...

  • Kashmiris will not forget Najma Ji

    May 31, 2017

    Prof. Saifuddin Soz, Former Union Minister, has issued the following statement to the press, today. 31st May, 2017 “Fellow Kashmiris, Today, I want to invite your attention to a situation that you would describe as something s...

  • Anniversary Appeal to PM Narendra Modi

    May 28, 2017

    An irresistible, self-aggrandizing Hindu majoritarian wave which is not just dismissive but positively hostile to minority concerns is sweeping the land. There is a volcano seething below the surface.

  • Capital punishment is no deterrent to crimes

    By Sumit Paul
    May 06, 2017

    People are rejoicing that the four convicts of Nirbhaya Case, that took place on December 16, 2012 in Delhi, will now be hanged after the SC's verdict on May 5. While it cannot be condoned what these guys did to a helpless young woman, send...

  • Two spoons but one plate — Brotherhood beyond faith which scares India’s right wingers like anything

    May 06, 2017

    I really don't know why I was much more comfortable with Abhishek from Mumbai than Dilshad from Karachi or Samer Kawaam from Egypt. Uncle Tiwari's guidance has always stayed with me, I just happen to be Muslim.