Will Shabana Azmi please speak up?
Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this extraordinary report of how Muslim women are being denied their freedoms…and the right to development by their own. Excerpts from Swaminathan S Aiyar’s Anjumans...
Author: B Shantanu
W’end Links: “Maccha Yantra”, Amarnath & The Purpose of History
Start this weekend reading about “Maccha Yantra” – which might have been the precursor to the mariner’s compass of today… Next, read former Governor of J&K, Jagmohan’s account of his trek to Amarnath… …and...
Who are these “Christian Converts”?
Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians. Is this not discrimination on the...
Greek Thoughts, Indian Roots?
A few weeks ago, I came across Sanjeev Sabhlok’s article on how (and why) the ideas of liberty – so celebrated in the western world today – may actually have had their origins in...
Correcting “History” – one bit at a time
Yesterday morning, while reading Jamiat has undone its past good work by Javed Ansari, I got stuck at the very first sentence: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is one of countless organisations that claim to represent...
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