Omair Ahmad

The decision to deploy the military to suppress a rebellion set off by the decades-long suppression of democratic rights has only deepened the problem.

BJP coming to power in 2014 was greeted with enthusiasm by the exiled community.

What stops the government that comes into place in 2019 from continuing down the self-destructive path that we have taken since 2014?

Partition meant that the community's population was vastly reduced, impacting their political influence.

The party has done nothing to hold to account those responsible for graft in IPL or Vyapam scam.

If New Delhi is to challenge Beijing as the principal security provider in Asia it has to show that it can do better.

He has no responsibility in this tragedy beyond that of being a moral and religious teacher.

By focussing on an 'exotic', horrible crime we are overlooking the mundane mass murders that are closer to home, and which are much more dangerous.

The suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust is too great to easily serve as an analogy to anything else.

The most important benefit - jobs - for Indians through this massive infrastructural project is now not going to take place.

It would be presumptuous for us to demand that people move on. But that is not the story I want to end with.

Yelling azadi is well and good, but what is this azadi, is it merely drawing a border on the map?

The public desperately wants change, but even make sacrifices for ill-considered ideas?

Peace is not a joke, nor can it be won by ignoring the serious problems that exist between the two countries.

Since Kejriwal's party has no hidden paymasters to placate, its key incentive is to respond to its base – exactly what democracy is supposed to be about.

The route would promote much more trade in the region. However, there is Kashmir in the middle of all that.

All we received were rumours and stories of one person killed here, another there.

It is hard to believe that prejudice is the main reason that the community is so underrepresented.

From dissident to supplicant, his story is that of how high hopes of dignity are thrown away for money and position.

It seems, left to their own, members of Indian society do not seem to encourage freedom for everybody.

It makes little sense to consider all Muslims can be seen through the lens of faith and ritual alone.

The deployment of the armed forces to quell civil unrest is the passing off of responsibility for political decisions.

Using force over the decades has only led to less and less legitimacy of Indian claims on Kashmir rather than more.

This was their responsibility. This is their guilt.

We have failed Kashmiris at every step, stolen their resources, their rights – and then wonder why they do not love us.

Muslims – who are the principal victims of the violence of the Iraq War as well as ISIS – have a choice.

We can try and build a better, more open, more just world. That is a political challenge, not a religious one.

Is capitalism killing our environment?

We have had to swallow our big talk when confronted with the reality of our capabilities.

It should make you pause and consider how much you have that you do not need.