A dangerous portent
Some of you must have read the news from two days ago regarding a call by some Muslim leaders to form a “Muslim political front“Â Â that would also align “secular forces”. Quite how a religious...
Category: Identity
The not so “communal” clashes in Assam
For the last few days, I have been following the twists and turns of the “clashes” in Assam with great interest…Not least because I have a very strong personal bond with the region but...
Shabana Azmi is right about one thing…
…Muslims need to look within their own community and build reforms within it. Last weekend, I finally managed to read the entire transcript of the Karan Thapar – Shabana Azmi interview and stumbled upon this bit...
Spot the H-word
Thanks to Sh Nachiketa Tiwari for spotting this and Sh Kak for emailing it to me. Although this is a fairly long excerpt from an exchange of emails re. learning Sanskrit, pl. try and read in full. It shows...
Time to say One Country, One Law
Amidst the flurry of Op-Ed pieces in mainstream (English language) media, suggesting granting Kashmir “complete autonomy (Khushwant Singh) ” or holding a plebiscite (Swaminathan S Aiyar) or a referendum (Vir Sanghvi),  I failed to spot even one...
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