By: PRAKASH KARAT The Modi government has caved in, in the face of threats of US sanctions regarding oil imports from Iran. At first glance, this would seem improbable, given...

By: Christophe Jaffrelot Sometimes what has not happened needs to be explained as much as what has happened. External Affair Ministers of India and Pakistan, Sushma Swaraj and Shah Mehmood...

By: SAMEER FIDA HUSSAIN These day’s board exams are going on in full swing in Kashmir as well as Jammu division. Earlier, it used to be only secondary school examination...

BY: Irfan Ahmad,  Santosh Mehrotra The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) labour force survey reports that the economic condition of Muslims does not show any signs of improvement despite India...

BY: Imtiaz Alam The message from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China is loud and clear: “no plans to scale back CPEC”; a promise to ‘provide necessary assistance to...

By: Mushtaq Hurra International print and electronic media was caught by storm during the first fortnight of October 2018 not because Viktoria Marinova of Bulgaria was raped and brutally killed,...

BY: Alok Rai I have never had much sympathy for Allahabad nostalgia — you see, I live here, in the midst of its tawdry mediocrity. This nostalgia is an affliction...

By: Khaled Ahmed You can’t help admiring Sayeeda Warsi, born in Yorkshire, on March 28, 1971, to Pakistani immigrants, who became chairperson of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party as Baroness...

By: Muhammad Amir Rana COUNTERING extremism is not an easy job, but the state’s lack of resolve makes it even more complex and challenging. The resolve to stand up to...

BY: Narinder Jitkaur Abdullah Khan’s debut novel, Patna Blues (Juggernaut, 2018, India) – that covers the life of a Muslim young boy Arif, set in the most troubled decade of...