OPINION
Between Ai Weiwei and Bashar al-Assad, we wonder
BY: Hamid Dabashi On a fine early afternoon in late March a young German-Iranian friend and I walked into the...
Panchayati raj at 25
BY: Mani Shankar Aiyar I write this as I fly to Thiruvananthapuram on April 24 for the Silver Jubilee National...
Urdu and patriotism
BY: Mohammed Ayoob The language that gave the country the most popular slogan of the independence movement and produced unmatched...
Banning Tuition Centers: Sweeping problems of Education under the carpet?
Education Minister, Altaf Bukhari, is right in saying that “the private tuition centers are proving to be a distraction for...
A summer of gathering discontent
BY: Sanjay Hegde At the First Round Table Conference in 1930, B.R. Ambedkar reminded his audience: “The men who fought...
No more violence in Asifa’s name, please!
Public protests play an important part in the civil, political, economic, social and cultural life of all societies. Protests encourage the development of an...
Fiddling with a WMD
BY: UPENDRA BAXI The Indian Constitution has, among several unwritten basic human rights, the right to have miracles performed...
The Republic of Impunity
BY: P Chidambaram Nirbhaya’s rape and the brutal attack on her in December 2012, and her death subsequently, shook the...
The day of reckoning
BY: Ruchir Joshi Bernardo Bertolucci’s film 1900 (Italian title: Novecento) is an epic, two-part saga that follows two boys, Olmo...
Remembering Allama Iqbal
BY: Peer Bilal Baba & M. Altaf Kumhar Dr Allama Iqbal, a Sialkot born philosopher and poet, studied literature, law...