OPEN TO OPINION
The writer is the author of 'Where Stones Speak' and other books.
VOICES
| 5-minute read
Rape of a child is rape of humanity itself
This is not the first time rape has been used as a tool of war to subjugate those who are considered a threat.
VARIETY
| 7-minute read
Glorious history of Delhi's Jama Masjid — the mosque that promised a view of the world
Though it’s still as majestic, I despair at its shoddy state.
ART & CULTURE
| 8-minute read
A brief history of Hazrat Ali - the first male to embrace Islam
His instructions on keeping the army happy, selecting a chief justice are kept in the United Nations as an example.
ART & CULTURE
| 6-minute read
Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti's Urs: Why death anniversaries of Sufi saints are celebrated as weddings
When death is a time to rejoice, and not to grieve.
ART & CULTURE
| 6-minute read
The tall truths about two Red Forts in Delhi
The Lal Qila, as we we see it today, is a mere shell of its former self.
ART & CULTURE
| 8-minute read
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read
Rediscovering chahar-bait, a dying folk music form that travelled from Afghanistan
It has roots in the war poetry of Arabia.
ART & CULTURE
| 7-minute read
Everything wrong with the Muslims outraging over Priya Prakash Varrier's 'wink' song
Enjoy it or ignore it, but don’t waste your energy in outrage.
POLITICS
| 10-minute read
I'm an Indian Muslim. Why must I suffer the acid test and prove my patriotism?
It’s the 'new normal' except that it is neither normal nor should it ever be.
ART & CULTURE
| 7-minute read