The first lynching
Three years after the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq, there is no remorse in his village. There is a sense of menace.
By: Tavleen Singh Last week, I went to the village of Bishada. On September 28, it will be three years since Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched here by cow vigilantes. My reason for going to Bishada was to see if there was remorse, regret or sadness about what happened. The lynching forced out of the village […]
AMERICA’S NEW PLOY TO INTENSIFY THE GENOCIDE OF AFGHANS
By: Mushtaq Hurra Erik Dean Prince, the founder of controversial security agency ‘ Blackwater ‘ is trying to persuade US President Donald Trump to privatize the security endeavors of Afghanistan. Blackwater is the brainchild of Erik Prince who belongs to a billionaire family of USA and is a former navy SEAL officer. He managed to […]
The IHRA anti-Semitism definition won’t protect Israeli apartheid
History will judge Israel's apologists the way Theresa May is now judged on apartheid South Africa.
By: Shahd Abusalama The UK Labour Party’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) anti-Semitism code in full, including its list of 11 examples, means it now considers calling Israel “racist” a potentially racist act. But the reality is that since the foundation of Israel – beginning with David Ben-Gurion’s “Drive them out!” order […]
‘Dear Comrade Gautamji’: on the Navlakha case
As the authorities summon the spectre of a Maoist threat, here’s what the Navlakha case shows us
By: Sanjay Kak When police picked up Gautam Navlakha from his home in New Delhi two weeks ago, it was part of a string of simultaneous arrests from across the country. Sudha Bharadwaj was picked up from nearby Faridabad, Arun Ferreira from Thane, Vernon Gonsalves from Mumbai, and Varavara Rao from Hyderabad. Colour by number […]
The scourge of corruption in Kashmir
By: Abid Ahmad Shah Kashmir which is known as the Switzerland of Asia and hogs the crown of the Indian Union, being the land of reshis, saints, sadhus, pirs, fakirs, etc. is today under the grip of looming corruption. Corruption has assumed the form of an unholy perpetuating institution, under the facade of false power […]
Absence on the bench
Judiciary has become another institution where Muslims are more and more under-represented
By: Christophe Jaffrelot , Gilles Verniers While the percentage of Muslims in prison has never been higher — 21 per cent — the proportion of Muslims convicted — 15.8 per cent — is closer to their share of the population (14.2 per cent in the 2011 Census). This indicates that many Muslims arrested by the […]
A Decade after the Financial Crisis
By: Nazim Humayoon Ten years ago the world witnessed a huge financial crisis and it shocked and enfeebled the world economy. The financial crisis that occurred in the year 2008, also known as the global financial crisis, is considered, by many economists, as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It […]
A false narrative
The essence of the new narrative is that Modi has ‘destroyed’ the institutions of democracy and that if he gets a second term he will make sure elections are never held again.
By: Tavleen Singh Narendra Modi has made mistakes since he became Prime Minister. Serious ones. And, this column has not hesitated to point them out. But, what I refuse to do is become party to the new narrative of lies being spread by a cabal of leftists, liberals and disgruntled ex-BJP ministers that speaks loudest […]
Inclusive Pakistan
Certain religious leaders and groups are pushing society towards chaos.
By: Muhammad Amir Rana AFTER the despicable Gojra riots in Punjab’s Faisalabad district that targeted Christians living in the area, a few Muslim scholars attempted to grapple with the issue of constitutionalism in Pakistan. The disturbances had badly damaged the country’s image. It was 2009 when Pakistan faced the maximum number of attacks for any […]
The sadness of silence
What has become of the Indian intellectual as storyteller? Is he only an annexe of the state or can he be critical?
BY: Shiv Visvanathan A few months ago, I was at a screening of a documentary on the Bengal Famine. Bengal Shadows, while well-intentioned, was more a pretext for the text that followed. The question was, why was there such a silence about the event, which claimed over 3.5 million people and was one of the […]
