It Is Time Faisal Devji Is Fired By The Oxford University
I think that Faisal Devji, an author and historian at the University of Oxford, should be fired from his job for writing an ideologically motivated article on the terror threat to India in The Hindu, a leading Marxist More...
Indian Secularism Views Indian Muslims As Pakistanis
Secularism as practised in India is a threat to Indian Muslims as this essay will demonstrate. As per purely academic definitions, there are primarily two meanings of secularism. First, it is a movement of ideas More...
Bihar Debacle: The Way Forward for the BJP
About two years ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party was not even a serious opposition in the nation’s politics. One of the perceptions was that it was acting like the B-team of the Congress, notably supporting More...
Decoding the Habits of the One-Eyed Intellectual
If India were an animal farm, it has been encroached by a class of one-eyed animals, who are better educated and have given themselves awards, live in comfortable homes, drink bottled water, and infest our television More...
Indian Secularism is Colour Blind
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder, while others say they are angry at the murder of the cow. Some people More...
India’s Thought Cops are Angry with Modi
In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef. In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar More...
Saba Naqvi’s Intentional Ignorance on Raza Academy
In the second week of September, a fatwa(Islamic decree) was issued at the behest of Mumbai-based Islamist organisation Raza Academy against Oscar-winner Indian music director A. R. Rahman and Iranian filmmaker More...
Did Hamid Gul Really Offer India Peace?
On 28 August, an article provocatively titled “When Hamid Gul offered India peace” (and without a question mark) was published by the Marxist Indian newspaper The Hindu. Coming soon after the cancellation More...
Sarfarosh to Phantom – Educating Indians About Pakistani Jihad
(A version of this article appeared in Hindi daily, Dainik Jagran on September 2, 2015.) It is in the nature of human beings to live in hope and rosy utopias, which was evident when Indians sat through Salman Khan’s More...
Raza Rumi – When Silence is Murder
In Pakistan, there are liberals and there are fake liberals. An average Indian does not recognize this distinction. The true liberals uphold a sense of ethics and morality in speech and writings and work for the More...