NC expresses concern over rise in fire incidents across Srinagar
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Saturday expressed concern over the increase in the incidents of fire across Srinagar city, saying apparent inadequacy in infrastructure and have narrated a deep and telling concern. This was, according to the NC spokesperson, stated by the party’s in charge constituencies Habakadal, Shaltaing-B, Lal Chowk Shameema Firdous, […]
Weather improves in Kashmir, mercury dips again
Srinagar: Many parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall while others were lashed by rain, resulting in the drop in minimum temperatures across the Valley even as the weather showed marked improvement on Friday. Several places in the Valley, especially in south Kashmir, received fresh overnight snowfall, the officials said. They said Pahalgam tourist resort in […]
Has the RSS ground shifted?
Mohan Bhagwat’s views about the Constitution, Muslims are radically different from that of his predecessor, K S Sudarshan.
The recent lecture series by the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, which was splashed across front pages nationwide, forcefully raises the question: Is this organisation under its present chief changing its position on critical matters such as the Constitution, the concept of Hindu Rashtra and the treatment of minorities? And if the answer is […]
The ‘fake news’ fiasco
Smriti Irani’s cure is worse than the disease
Has Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Textiles and Information and Broadcasting (I&B), become an embarrassment for the government? Her fake news press release is not the first time she’s stumbled on a banana skin. There have been several earlier occasions and each time she’s thrown the skin herself. Let me recount the facts, and then […]
We’re not all Hindus, but we’re all Indians
So, if today we’re Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, animists or atheists then that’s precisely what we are and its fatuous, mistaken and even offensive to insist that, actually, we’re Hindu because that is the ancient link that once connected us. It’s not.
The argument that we’re all Hindus because, once upon a time, Hinduism was the original and only religion of the subcontinent doesn’t cut much ice with me. Because if you really want to dig back in time and find a common feature that unites all of us, the truth is before everything else we were […]
