अल्पसंख्यांक
November 12, 2016
The targeting of minorities by Islamists anywhere in the Muslim world must be denounced by religious and political leaders in our country
Image: Star/ Focus Bangla
Hundreds of people ransacked temples and vandalized homes of the Hindu minority in the Brahmanbairs district of eastern Bangladesh. Over 100 Hindu homes and 17 temples were vandalised and looted since October 30 in...
November 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?”
Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...
November 12, 2016
There is no one uniform tradition of Sufism, a fact that is little known today.
Image: Reuters
Sprouting from the concrete floor of a madrassa is the bark of the ancient Karir tree that has remained rooted to this spot as the world around it changed. The shade of this tree was the madrassa itself when Baba Farid Shakarganj, head of the Sufi tradition of Chistiya, moved here – a...
November 11, 2016
Today, November 11 is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Maulana Azad. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was 70 years when he passed away on February 22, 1958.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress, in 1923 and again in 1940. This excerpt from his historic address made at...
November 10, 2016
नई दिल्ली। तीन सप्ताह से ज्यादा समय से लापता जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र नजीब अहमद का अभी तक कोई पता नहीं चल पाया है। इसके लिए विवि के छात्र लगातार धरना प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं। आठ दिन पहले एनएसयूआई छात्र नेता सनी धीमान सहित चार छात्र भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे हैं। इसके बावजूद प्रशासन नजीब अहमद के बारे में गंभीर नजर नहीं आ रहा।
भूख हड़ताल कर रहे चारों छात्रों की हालत बिगड़...
November 10, 2016
Contextualizing the Secular Fabric of India and Section 123 of RP Act
The shadow of a sinister ghost lurks over the Indian polity. Opportunistic, even supremacist notions of society are being articulated by major political players and their parties, programmes and manifestos, all working decidedly against the rich tradition of India’s pluralism by narrowly using our religious and caste...
November 9, 2016
The 5-member group of “concerned citizens” led by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has submitted its findings to the Home Ministry in Delhi. This report has been released to the media too, not however receiving the coverage it deserves. The group had visited Kashmir on October 25 for three days during which it met various people from across Kashmir’s ideological divide.
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November 8, 2016
From the ‘Hindu exodus’ in July, to the ‘Surgical Strikes’ in September, to sympathetic noises for Muslim women over ‘triple talaq’ and now vows to end ‘illegal mining’, the BJP appears unsure of what to actually make its poll plank for the forthcoming state assembly polls. Or is simply testing pre-election poll waters as alignments and re-...
November 8, 2016
नई दिल्ली। जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र नजीब अहमद को लापता हुए तीन सप्ताह से ज्यादा समय हो रहा है। इस मामले में विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र और नजीब के परिजन प्रशासन के खिलाफ लगातार प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं। दिल्ली पुलिस प्रदर्शनकारियों को लगातार रोक रही है। दो दिन पहले नजीब की मां को बुरी तरह घसीटकर हिरासत में लिया गया।
देशद्रोह के आरोप में जेल जा चुके कन्हैया कुमार ने अपनी...
November 7, 2016
भोपाल में आतंकवादी गतिविधियों के आरोप में जेल में बंद आठ विचाराधीन कैदियों को कथित मुठभेड़ में मार गिराने की घटना इस तरह की फर्जी मुठभेड़ों के लंबे इतिहास का एक और नया और ताजा उदाहरण है। यह घटना इसलिए भी ज्यादा परेशान करती है कि राज्य सरकार और इसके मुख्य कर्ता-धर्ताओं की दिलचस्पी इस बात का दावा करने में नहीं है कि यह मुठभेड़ असली है। बल्कि वे इस बात पर गर्व...