Salman Khurshid’s 'Visible Muslim, Invisible Citizen: Understanding Islam in Indian Democracy' (Rupa) gives the view of a political insider into current heated debates around Islam and Muslims in India.
Not only did India not join the ‘Osaka Track’ on free data flow, we even boldly stood up against terror financing and economic offenders who are living in a safe haven.
Pakistan faces world disapproval and the drying of funds over its support to terrorists like Hafiz Saeed. But its moves to 'take action' are impressing no-one.
Tabrez is much more than a statistic of mob lynching. We need to individualize his story, go into each detail of the incident and hold the perpetrators responsible.
Kailash Vijayvargiya’s son Akash Bijayvargiya assaulted a municipal officer with a bat and got a lot of backlash for the same, deservedly so. Hence proved, entitled and privileged politicians can stoop to any low.
The TMC supremo seems absolutely unable to handle either provocations from the BJP or pressures within her own party. Will Mamata Banerjee push the TMC to breaking point?
Yoga Day became all about Narendra Modi once again. It took a tweet by Rahul Gandhi to call this out. But Rahul needs to raise his voice on far more serious issues, and far more often.
This is in response to Sania Ahmad’s piece, “Open letter to my fellow Muslims: Please step out of the ‘we are oppressed’ narrative. Fix what you can!” It's time we stop bashing Muslims for their state.