अल्पसंख्यांक
November 1, 2016
Only 30-35 policemen were deployed to control a 3000-men strong crowd, which later turned into an unruly mob and vandalised about 100 homes and 10 temple in the district's Nasirnagar upazila
The conjoint idol of Radha and Krishna-- Hindu god and goddess, somehow survived an attack launched on different temples in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar on Sunday, October 30, 2016Dhaka Tribune...
November 1, 2016
Barely four days ago, October 27, 2016 to be precise, addressing a rally at no less a historic spot than Etawah, known for being politically savvy strongman Mulayam Singh’s home turf, BJP’s chief strategist and party president, Amit Shah took us all down memory lane. He told a public rally and through this the voters of Uttar Pradesh (the state goes to the polls in the first...
October 31, 2016
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims
October 31, 2016 is the 141st Birth Anniversary of the Iron Man, India’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
In 1996, scholar and politician, Rafiq Zakaria delivered the Sardar Patel Memorial lecture titled “Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims.” (They were divided in two parts: the first, dealing with the Sardar’s...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
As Sikhs were being massacred in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Zail Singh stood by helplessly, Home Minister Narasimha Rao played cool.
On November 1, 1992, The Pioneer newspaper, then edited by the legendary Vinod Mehta, published a story that Amit Prakash and this reporter had stitched together. Titled, 1984: The Price of Inaction Revisited, we based our story on...
October 31, 2016
The inaction of the police and university authorities is baffling.
It has been more than two weeks since a student – Najeeb Ahmed – disappeared from the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University in the national capital, following a brutal thrashing and threats at the hands of a group of students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The thrashing followed an...
October 31, 2016
The Quranic injunction providing the option to a divorced couple to reunite has been trivialised in ulema-sanctioned common practice to the extent that it is extremely degrading and humiliating to women, defies all standards of human decency.
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Religious and social customs in almost all societies and in all walks of life were constructed by males to give them greater...
October 31, 2016
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व्यापम घोटालेबाज भाजपाई मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह,
जिसने मामले की पोल खोलने की कोशिश करने वाले सत्तर से ज़्यादा लोगों का कत्ल करवाया ,
टीवी पर बोल रहा है कि आइये पहला दिया सैनिकों के नाम जलायें,
जवानों को अपनी सत्ता के लिये मरवा कर फर्जी देशभक्ति का ढोंग देख कर घिन आती है ,
मेरा प्रस्ताव है कि भाजपाई लोग देश के भीतर भाजपा और संघ की फैलाई गई नफरत की वजह से मारे गये...
October 30, 2016
Naroda patiya case: Babu Bajrangi gets 7 day-bail, 14th time since conviction
The Vacation Bench of Justice B N Karia partly allowed Bajrangi’s bail plea by giving him seven days relief from jail against 30 days which he had sought.
Babubhai Patel alias Babu Bajrangi, Courtsey: The Indian Express
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, October 27, three days ago, granted...
October 30, 2016
Many assume I am Muslim as I have a Muslim surname. It says as much about them as it does about our deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset.
Image credit: Sahibzada Masooduzzafar
Every time I join a new workplace or encounter new people, I am more often than not quizzed about my name. Frequently, it is with admiration about its uniqueness, and often, the assumption is that...