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Here and Now

Say it Maulana before it is too late Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, Chairman of the All India Muslim Personal Board, has spoken to a senior journalist recently. I found some confusion in…
Disgraceful language used in Indian Parliament

It is more than a week since Ramesh Bidhuri, a BJP member of the Lok Saba abused a fellow parliamentarian Danish Ali from the Bahujan Samaj Party, BSP, on the floor of…

Huge jump in Scheduled Castes, and not Muslim, population in Bihar

The most surprising aspect of the Bihar Caste Survey is that the population of the Scheduled Castes—undoubtedly the weakest of all the social groups–witnessed a huge jump when compared to the 2011…
Why Opposition in J&K is so desperate for polls

Why Opposition Parties in Jammu and Kashmir are desperate for all sorts of elections? If some think that it is due to their urge to clinch the electoral battles in their favour, it…
Let’s create youngsters who object to and refuse slapping their classmate

By Asma Anjum Khan #Classroom #Education #Slap #Thappad #Aurangzeb #TipuSultanThat child getting slapped turning into a pulp woke me up again. I know, wake up to sleep again. But while I was…
Frequent elections do not impede pace of development in democracies

If frequent elections come in the way of development of any country and distract the attention of the government machinery (as is being argued by the Bharatiya Janata Party bigwigs) then the…
Challenge in Kashmir is to preserve normalcy

At this point in time when the narrative about Kashmir is that it is just inches away from complete peace and the dividends that are on the way to change the whole…

Dismantling the myth of Muslim population boom in India

By Mohan Rajagopal While at first glance, statistics are considered to be unbiased measures of truth, it remains possible to warp data narratives to suit one’s interests. The politicisation of data is…
Cops groove on Ganesh immersion: social media remains divided

Hyderabad: Amidst heightened security concerns on Thursday, celestial alignment brought together two significant religious events: Milad-un-Nabi and the Ganesh immersion procession. On this day, observers of the procession were treated to an…
Dadasaheb Phalke had to overcome host of obstacles to make India’s first silent film

Dadasaheb Phalke award is the highest honour in the Indian film world. Over the years numerous prominent film personalities have received this prestigious award and this year veteran actress Waheeda Rehman has been…
AIMIM plans to contest polls in Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad: Amidst political turmoil in Andhra Pradesh, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) plans to make a re-entry into AP politics. Telugu Desam Supremo and TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s arrest and…
Donald Trump may lead as main republican challenger to Biden

The question is will Donald Trump be elected as the president of the United States again? Will the US electorate give him the chance to work towards, ‘Making America Great again’, again?…
Canada must take strong stand against pro-Khalistani elements

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a fix. His attempt to nail India down on grounds of “foreign interference” in his country, has turned into a full-blown diplomatic war between Canada…
Politics on Sanatan Dharma

The kind of political storm that was built up around his single sentence would not have been dreamt of even by Udhayanidhi Stalin, Sports Minister of Tamil Nadu, and son of Chief…
We must rethink calling Hyderabad’s Integration into India ‘Liberation’

By Tanvi Rupakula A week before India and Pakistan became independent dominions, the Nizam declared, along with a few other princes, that he would not be joining either nation. This was indeed…