धार्मिक कट्टरपन
December 24, 2016
One of only two functional Hindu places of worship in Lahore, it is a rare example of religious syncretism in the country
Image credit: Haroon Khalid
The turquoise dome of a mausoleum rises from the middle of a congested market in Lahore, its octagonal white building lost among the cycle and cloth shops. This is the shrine of the 16th century Sufi saint Sheikh Abdul Razzaq. Not far...
December 22, 2016
Demonetisation is an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Demonetisation is not merely an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his troupe of sycophants and followers.
The traditional obscurantism of Hindutva, in the glorification of mythology as science, has had serious consequences for education in...
December 22, 2016
[Iraqi Kudistan. Image via edmaps.com]
[In early 2016 Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, proclaimed that a referendum on Kurdish independence would be conducted before this year’s US presidential elections. More recently its prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, has pledged the referendum will be held after the campaign to oust the Islamic State...
December 22, 2016
12 dead and 48 injured on the eve of Christmas, and a Tunisian is a suspect
Analysts are still amazed that a truck, used to carry goods, can be transformed into a weapon by Islamic terrorists. As the Berlin truck attack shows, perhaps anything can be turned into an agent of destruction. But this is not the first incident involving such an unconventional weapon. The Nice attack in France...
December 21, 2016
Following the Delhi High Court’s decisions, the Delhi Police has been searching the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, 65 days after the disappearance of post graduate student, Najeeb Ahmad. The police, eager to police JNU has been combing all hostels, schools, the central library, the forests and...
December 21, 2016
The High Court has also started hearing the appeal petitions on daily basis since last Monday, December 19
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday allowed six victims of the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre to get case papers running into over 1.25 lakh pages free of cost from the registry of the court. Survivors backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),a Mumbai-based civil rights and legal aid group...
December 21, 2016
IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
DISTRICT: AHMEDABAD
MISC. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. OF 2016
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December 21, 2016
A professor of Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages at Shivaji University in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Megha Pansare ostensibly leads a quiet life. She is the President of the District Council of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) in the state of Maharashtra. She is also a noted activist and the daughter-in-law of Comrade Govind Pansare. But most importantly, a year ago, she...
December 20, 2016
The BJP, never far from using inciteful speech to drum up a Hindu-Muslim divide, especially just prior to any polls, does it again. This time one of it's senior leaders dubbed Muslims as ‘un-patriotic’, BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma drove the point nastily home. He was reported as having addressed a gathering in Baghpat on Saturday, December 17, stating that Muslims don...
December 20, 2016
बागपत। यूपी चुनाव से पहले भाजपा सांसद प्रवेश वर्मा ने मुसलमानों को लेकर विवादित बयान दिया है। बागपत जिले में एक कार्यक्रम के दौरान उन्होंने कहा कि मुसलमानों ने न तो भाजपा को कभी वोट दिया है और नहीं कभी देंगे। उन्होंने कहा कि अक्सर हर आतंकवादी मुस्लिम होता है। बीजेपी एक राष्ट्रभक्त पार्टी है और यही कारण है कि मुस्लिम समाज बीजेपी को वोट नहीं करता है। वर्मा ने आगे यहां तक कहा कि उन्हें...