OPINION
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...
It’s time for India to confront Hindutva
BY: Aijaz Zaka Syed A Pakistani friend of mine, who has always had a soft corner for India and has...
Marginalised from school
BY: Shashi Tharoor Although the recent Budget session of Parliament was appallingly disrupted by the ruling party’s surrogates and Question...
Student protests: What to do?
The widespread student protests unfolding in the Kashmir Valley seemingly have no end in sight and with the triggers and...
Shaken to the core in Kathua
BY: Zoya Hasan & Farida Abdulla Khan The tragic and gruesome rape and killing of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua,...