Mumbai and Delhi: A Tale Of Two Cities
Moving to Mumbai, India's business capital, after living in the power capital of New Delhi for more than two decades...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Gujarat Riots: The Story Of Hate, Violence And Killing Of Muslims
The recently released BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, has reopened the wounds of Imtiyaz Pathan, who witnessed the brutal...
Anuradha Bhasin’s Book Shatters The Enforced Perception Of Calm In Jammu And Kashmir
Journalist and author Anuradha Bhasin has broken the uneasy silence that has prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir for the past...
Demand To Release Sikh Prisoners Gets Shriller In Indian Punjab
Demands for releasing Sikh prisoners, Bandi Singhs as they are widely known, who are in jail for the past over...
Do We Need Governor’s Office In India And Pakistan?
While in Pakistan, presidents and prime ministers have remained at loggerheads many times, in India, this clash of authority often...
Hindu Nationalism Is Rising In The West. The Governments Are Looking The Other Way.
The West which defeated fascism in the 1940s and established democracies is, unfortunately, shutting its eyes to the rise of Hindu nationalism....
The Do Or Die Moment For India’s Congress And Nehru-Gandhi Family
On the verge of a make-or-break moment, South Asia’s oldest political party, the Indian National Congress, is playing its last...
Remembering Tariq Aziz And Satinder Lambah: Two Diplomats Who Promised Peace Between India And Pakistan
By coincidence, two top former diplomats of India and Pakistan, who had almost brought the issue of Jammu and Kashmir...
Bilkis Bano Case: Why Is Justice Being Denied?
In 2008, after a long trial full of tribulations, 11 rioters were convicted of raping Bilkis Bano during the 2002...
Three Years On, Kashmir Continues To Bleed
Exactly three years after India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and in a constitutional assault, divided the...
Political Representation Of Indian Muslims: Journey From Powerful Kingmakers To Helpless Bystanders
With the exit of sole Muslim member Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi recently from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, for the first...
Activists, Politicians Propose 10-Point Formula To Disentangle India-Pakistan Relationship
At a virtual meeting held recently by the Kolkata-based Centre for Peace and Progress, peace activists from both sides of...
All Preach, No Practice: Modi Pledges Free Speech At G7
On the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Germany recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a chord with the...
Pressure, Self-Censorship, Silence: How The Press In Kashmir Is Censored
A day after a Delhi court’s decision to award life imprisonment to Kashmiri pro-independence leader, Yasin Malik, I was skimming...
How India’s Inclusive Jamia Millia Islamia Leaves Hate Mongers Red-Faced
India’s prestigious educational institution Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) is once again in the news. Two years ago, students of this...
Fringe Hindu Groups New Foot Soldier Of RSS-VHP
Hindu nationalists in India never get tired of demoralising and inculcating a sense of insecurity among minorities. Even before an...
Bulldozers Becomes BJP’s Latest Weapon To Bully, Alienate Muslims In New Delhi
Taking cue from Israeli action against Palestinians, authorities in India used bulldozers to terrorize Muslims in New Delhi in mid-April...
In Another Attempt To Persecute Muslims, Hindu Extremists Object To Azaan On Loudspeakers
In a clear pattern of cases of discrimination against minorities in India, the hijab ban in colleges in Karnataka is...
Ram Navami: Rightwing Hindus Have Hijacked Lord Ram To Instill Fear Among Muslims In Gujurat
Ram Navami – the birthday of Hindu mythological hero Lord Ram – should ideally bring solace and introspection. But, over...
How Communalism Limits Urdu: From The Language Of Hindustan To That Of The Mussalman
From its glorious past interwoven into the first war of independence of the subcontinent in 1857 to becoming the language...
How A Well-Oiled Social Media Machine Gives The BJP An Edge In Electioneering
The electoral victory of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 also announced...
Indian Elections: BJP Punjab Rejects Hindutva, But Uttar Pradesh Drapes Itself In Saffron
Except for the Sikh-dominated Punjab province, voters in the four other states -- Goa, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Uttarakhand and Manipur...
Holier Than Thou: BJP-Ruled States Consider Whether The Value Of A Cow’s Life Exceeds That Of Humans
While in Pakistan a mere suspicion of blasphemy invites vigilante violence, in India the vigilante lynching is reserved for those...
Erasing Nehru: Modi Is Trying To Rewrite India’s History
Indian millennials like myself were used to seeing portraits of India’s icons of freedom, like Mahatma Gandhi and first Prime...
Deconstructing The Fault Lines In India’s Politically Significant State Of Uttar Pradesh
India’s most populated and politically significant state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) was once a skills capital and the industrial base...
Indian Govt Forcibly Takes Over Kashmir Press Club, Journalists Lose A Safe Space
Everywhere in the world, a press club is like a post box for journalists and the first stop for any...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Former Army Officer’s Family Seeks Justice For Son
The family of a former army officer has...
NA Passes Bill Seeking To Limit CJP’s Suo Motu Powers
The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill...