धार्मिक कट्टरपन
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...
November 11, 2016
राजीव यादव यूपी में सामाजिक व राजनीतिक संगठन ‘रिहाई मंच’ के सक्रिय नेता हैं. मानव अधिकारों के उल्लंघन के मुद्दों को पूरी सक्रियता के साथ उठाते रहे हैं. भोपाल में कथित सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं के कथित एनकाउंटर पर भी इन्होंने ज़ोर-शोर से सवाल उठाएं और विरोध में लखनऊ में प्रदर्शन का ऐलान किया. अभी प्रदर्शन की तैयारी ही कर रहे थे कि पुलिस ने इन्हें पकड़ लिया और मारते-पीटते पुलिस चौकी ले गई....
November 11, 2016
Congress has already granted wide power to the president to alter immigration rules, so he will not need congressional approval.
Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Candidate Trump was never particularly specific on the policy details of how the Muslim ban would work. But with President-elect Trump set to take office in January, and his pledge to implement the ban on day one now...
November 11, 2016
Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country -- Rightwing Jewish leader Naftali Bennett
Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, recently boasted that the national-religious camp, though only a tenth of the population, held “leadership...
November 10, 2016
Twenty four hours of having Donald Trump as the president elect and the streets of the United States of America (USA) look different. Shaun King, an American civil rights activist shared a number of screenshots of women sharing their experience of racism, misogyny and religious intolerance by Trump supporters, on the very next day of the election.
A Muslim woman, in...
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...