धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 14, 2016
A year after the deadly 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, and France is still grappling with its relationship with its minorities.
Fraternity is often forgotten. Didier Jansen/flickr, CC BY-NC
After it emerged that some of those who carried out the attacks were French nationals, many renewed longstanding criticisms that the outdated French “republican model” of...
November 12, 2016
अगर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के हिसाब से हिंदुत्व जीवन जीने का एक तरीका है तो इस्लाम और ईसाई या कोई अन्य धर्म क्यों नहीं?
भारतीय राजनीति पर इन दिनों भयानक साया मंडरा रहा है। मौजूदा भारतीय राजनीति के प्रमुख खिलाड़ी अपनी पार्टियों, कार्यक्रमों और घोषणापत्रों के जरिये ऐसे मौकापरस्त और वर्चस्ववादी समाज के विचारों को आगे बढ़ाने में लगे हैं, जो भारतीय राजनीति की बहुलतावादी परंपरा के बिल्कुल खिलाफ हैं। ये...
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
A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.
For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was...
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 11, 2016
As human rights defender Khurram Parvez continued to be under allegedly unlawful detention for the 58th day in Kotbalwal jail, unmindful of the wide condemnation of both his detention and the large numbers of illegal detentions in the Valley since July 8 this year, the Jammu & Kashmir (J & K) police on Tuesday has arrested Jammu and Kashmir...
November 11, 2016
Even as we celebrated 'resistance' and ‘democracy’ in ensuring the ban on NDTV ‘was put on hold’ (the Modi regime made this announcement on November 7 after the channel had gone to court and there had been a vociferous outcry on the ban), we Indians have remained mealy-mouthed and silent on the 65 day old ban on Kashmir Reader, a newspaper published from the...
November 11, 2016
Think of the person closest to you, and the place that they hold in your daily life, the bittersweet memories that they create each day in your life, the daily fights and the moments of affection. At times, you fight and simply want to go away from one another, seeking a temporary calm from each other’s absence. You resolve never to call him/her again, or to speak to her/him anymore....
November 11, 2016
A newsroom can often be the most nerve-racking, jarring, or the most fun-filled place for a professional journalist. Given the speed at which news travels these days, it is also a place where decisions are taken in a heartbeat and executed within seconds. In all, the newsroom lies at the heart of any media organisation; be it a website or an old-school newspaper.
Not if you happen to be a...