The police must answer why innocent Muslims are being implicated in terror cases When in doubt about a terror investigation, blame the most readily ...
06:54 AM, Mar 13, 2013
While much work has been done on exploring and exposing communalism in India, relatively little attempt has been made to understand its conjoined twin, secularism. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 13, 2013
By the late 11th century veneration of the Prophet had begun to assume a visible form in different parts of the by-now burgeoning Islamic world. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 25, 2013
It has been my experience that the best way to deal with political rabble rousers is to call their bluff and bluster. I have never ...
12:16 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Rashid Jahan was a woman of many parts: a brilliant and hardworking doctor, a dedicated member of the Communist Party, a committed political organizer, a ...
12:19 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Muslims are seeking a new narrative in Gujarat beyond victimhood The land of historic Gandhian satyagrahas like Kheda, Bardoli and the Dandi March, Gujarat ...
08:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
6 December 1992. Ayodhya burned, while NaRao fiddled (at a puja)(i). Flash forward 20 years. Today, in the heart of Hyderabad, once celebrated ...
11:22 AM, Dec 06, 2012
A research officer from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences was recently harassed in Hyderabad while he worked on a report on terror cases ...
04:55 PM, Oct 10, 2012
A new lexicon is needed to create a new relationship Old ghosts have a way of re-appearing. Manmohan Singh has warned senior police officers ...
07:22 AM, Sep 12, 2012
The holy month of Ramzan is a period of fasting and prayer, charity and piety, retreat and abstinence. Lasting one lunar month (roughly 29 or ...
09:59 AM, Jul 24, 2012
My first reaction on reading the news that St Aloysius College in Mangalore had restricted the use of burqa was that it was unnecessarily provocative. ...
06:46 PM, Apr 28, 2012
The BJP has just one Muslim candidate among its 403 in Uttar Pradesh where there live 37 million Muslims. It is symptomatic of the party's ...
12:05 PM, Feb 15, 2012
A teary-eyed Congress as election fever heats up in Uttar Pradesh. Two rounds of votes have been polled. Congress continues to cling on to its ...
05:39 PM, Feb 13, 2012
For the last few days, Salman Rushdie is in the news. Some are speaking in his favour and some against. A controversy is on. His ...
06:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
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One would think that the focal point of any university and the experience of being at university is the institution's library. Not for students of ...
07:29 PM, Sep 26, 2011
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Digvijaya Singh's nefarious statements are as worrisome as his boss Rahul Gandhi's silence over them. Is Singh executing a script? In 2003, as Madhya ...
12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2011
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Bihar, in a new, resurgent India, is often presented as a case study of what a positive politics of development and inclusive growth can yield. ...
06:48 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama once commented on George Bush by saying, "He brings out the Muslim in me." Put with all the delicacy and ...
06:31 PM, May 20, 2011
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Since Pakistan has been in the eye of the storm, many books are being published on the future of the state. Not many are objective ...
10:46 AM, May 07, 2011
