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‘War is creating a hellscape of destruction, destitution, and fear in the world’
On this Gandhi Jayanti, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres focused on Mahatma Gandhi’s message of non-violence, peace, and equality. Voicing deep concern ove...
Your Honour, the Rot Runs Really Deep!
Justice Srishananda of the Karnataka High Court is in the news for the wrong reasons. What has caused tremendous unease is the way he openly referred to a Musli...
Deaths and destruction of war going beyond Palestine
First things first. From the latest news reports the war havoc is furthering… going beyond the Palestinian State, well into Lebanon. No stopping the destruction...
Dissecting Modi-government’s claim of Muslim Welfare under its 3.0 rule
The BJP government has come up with the claim that it has done many things for the welfare of Muslims after completing 100 days in office. The Minister of Min...
Kashmir’s high-stakes polls for low-power assembly
The Union Territory government will have powers similar to a municipal authority, but a lot more than that is on the line.
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections Phase II
The Pir Panjal region of Jammu and Kashmir is nestled against the mighty Pir Panjal Mountain range, which geographically separates it from the Kashmir Valley. T...
A curious twist of fate
A state holiday today, September 23, on account of Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday, is perhaps the only bequest that was deliberately considered worth being retr...
Beauty, Caste and ‘Miss India’ Contests
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his Prayagraj meeting on August 24, 2024 said that “90% Indians do not figure even in the Miss India contest”. As a response to ...
Why is the End of Hindutva Politics and Ideology Historically Inevitable?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar articulated the concept of Hindutva, outlining who is a Hindu in a pamphlet in 1923. “For whatever reasons, Savarkar’s vision was roote...
Bangladesh in Turmoil: Kashmiri Students’ Plight Amidst Political Unrest
“The historical ties between Kashmir and Bangladesh date back to the Mughal era, when a Kashmiri man became the Nawab of Dhaka”
Bangladesh at Crossroads: Anti-India Sentiment, Political Turmoil, and Future of Bilateral Relations
As India rolls out the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), ostensibly to provide refuge to persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries, the policy h...
Beware the politics behind ST Status for Paharis in Jammu and Kashmir
The long-standing demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status by the Pahari community in Jammu and Kashmir was finally granted through an act of the Indian Parliamen...
This Election Spells Freedom Or Death For Kashmir
Kashmir has one chance to win back the autonomy that it enjoyed under Article 370 of the constitution. As the first phase of voting for the assembly polls ends,...
Political Kaleidoscope: Key Contests in 1st Phase of J&K Assembly Polls – Part III
In the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, scheduled for September 18, 2024, (Wednesday), the two regions of Maraz, comprising Anantnag, Pu...
Would Agniveer Ever Be Scrapped?
Truth, as they say, has an uncanny ability of bursting out into the open, unannounced. This seems to have happened with the controversial Agniveer Scheme – the ...
Bangladesh’s Second Revolution: Ousting of Sheikh Hasina and Road to Uncertainty
After nearly fifty years of independence, Bangladesh is witnessing what many have called a second revolution. But this time, the fight is not against a distant ...
Branching out in my childhood
When was the last time I climbed a tree? Are there any big trees at all in my neighbourhood? The questions popped up in my head as I read a paragraph from a boo...
Pagers and Walkie-talkies’ explosions in Lebanon: War expanding beyond the Palestine borders
The war is expanding… targets are on the rise, going well beyond the Palestine borders, towards Lebanon. This week explosions went off in Beirut and several oth...
How BJP Benefits From Engineer Rashid Factor in J&K Assembly Elections?
All political leaders were arrested in 2019 to silence any dissent, but Engineer Rashid was detained under the UAPA and held in Tihar Jail on allegations of mon...
Political Kaleidoscope: Key Contests in 1st Phase of J&K Assembly Polls
In the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, scheduled for September 18 (Wednesday), the two regions of Maraz, comprising Anantnag, Pulwama, ...