BY: Apoorvanand Muslims of India have been feeling more vulnerable and insecure in the first four months of 2018 than ever before. Recent cases of failed justice for crimes committed...

BY: M.K. Narayanan As 2019 and the general election beckon, the situation within the country appears far from reassuring. Several events over the past few months seem to presage that...

BY: Dr Naazir Mahmood A recent visit to Sindh coincided with three important developments which attracted a lot of attention on mainstream and social media. Since they have educational and...

BY: Zarrar Khuhro IT’S a history-making handshake for sure: North Korean leader King Jong-un and his South Korean counterpart clasped hands across the military demarcation line that separates the two...

By: Bilal Ahsan Dar In most societies at most times throughout history, teachers have been among the most respected members of their communities. Sadly, this isn’t the case anymore, atleast...

By: MIR SEENEEN While majority of the people especially the ones constituting the Intellectual Class, have resorted to censorious criticism of students for flooding the streets in demand of justice...

BY: Shiv Visvanathan The recent riots in West Bengal and Bihar have got stuck in the gullet of Indian democracy. These riots are disturbing not only as new rituals of...

BY: Hamid Dabashi On a fine early afternoon in late March a young German-Iranian friend and I walked into the Garage Gallery at the Fire Station in Doha, Qatar -...

BY: Mani Shankar Aiyar I write this as I fly to Thiruvananthapuram on April 24 for the Silver Jubilee National Panchayati Raj celebrations organised by the Kerala Institute of Local...

BY: Mohammed Ayoob The language that gave the country the most popular slogan of the independence movement and produced unmatched patriotic verses during the freedom struggle suffered the most from...