Category: Current Affairs

Taslima Nasreen and a deafening silence

Came across a great post by Sandeep on the recent assault on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad. Some things stand out in this remarkable episode: The deafening silence of the liberal activists on the incident...

Why Abu Salem spared SRK

This one is straight from a Hindi film plot – almost. Rediff recently carried an excerpt from Anupama Chopra’s new book, King Of Bollywood titled “When SRK got a call from Abu Salem“. Here is...

A fresh look at Reservations and Quotas

This has been one of my longest posts in the making…taking almost two months since I first started putting down my thoughts on this issue. To a large extent this was because I wanted...

Can Muslims change their religion?

This is good news in as much as it promotes the idea of choice and freedom for each individual to choose his or her own faith… Is this yet another indication of a reformation...