Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in 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...
Hamid Ansari and Rafiq Zakaria: A Study in Contrasts
Is it appropriate for the Vice President of secular India to speak publicly about the deprivation and discrimination by the state against his community? Is it acceptable for our nation’s Vice President to speak More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies: Book Review
S.N. Balagangadhara Rao, better known as Balu, is Professor of Comparative Culture Studies in Ghent University, Belgium. Balu is a Kannada Brahmin by birth, a former Marxist, and his discourse has a very in-your-face More...
Yakub Memon: What the Media Suppresses
On 15 July 2015, across many media channels in India, we saw something that was never seen before, but which is sure to become more frequent and shriller with each passing year now: that was the reaction of Muslim More...
Ten facts about Bangladesh Minorities: On the brink of extinction
The number of religious minorities including Hindus is declining quickly and dangerously in Bangladesh : from 19.80 per cent in 1971 to 9.00 per cent in 2014. The Bangladesh Government and political parties in More...
Shirin Dalvi shame: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost her job and is being prosecuted by the authorities and persecuted by her own community. Her crime? On 17 January, More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
Gandhi’s assassination and Godse’s truth
Ever since the BJP’s ascension to power, attempts have been made to eulogize Nathuram Godse as a sterling patriot who committed an outrageously bold act in national interest. Hindu nationalists are understandably More...
Amitav Ghosh’s comparison of Narendra Modi and Erdogan ignores history
In the 30 November edition of Times Of India, novelist Amitav Ghosh penned a piece in which he draws a significant comparison between the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip More...