Nikah halala, the demeaning practice of forcing a woman to sleep with another man in a brief marriage before she can return to the husband who regrets divorcing her, is an abomination that must be abolished along with the freedom of instant divorce (triple talaq) granted to Muslim men in … Read More
Major General Gagandeep Bakshi (retd.) is possibly India’s most famous thinking and talking military veteran, certainly the most popular with the resurgent nationalists. Author of several well-researched books on military strategy, he is best known for his forceful articulation of the national interest on prime time news on several channels. … Read More
Will Kannur district of Kerala become the first city outside the States of Jammu & Kashmir and Manipur where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) might be imposed owing to the growing lawlessness and targetted killings of Hindu activists by goons belonging to the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist … Read More
Amidst media speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping would bat strongly for “all-weather friend” Pakistan at the BRICS-BIMSTEC summit in Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the sting out of any potential rebuke this might entail with a game-changing arms acquisition from Russia. While Saturday’s $ 5 billion S-400 ‘Triumf’ … Read More
The reorganisation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir could well begin from the backward Ladakh province as local leaders of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, opposition National Conference and Congress, as well as heads of various religious and cultural organisations and civil society groups, have united to urge Union … Read More
Addressing the people of Pakistan from Kozhikode, Kerala, on September 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpened his diplomatic offensive by highlighting its internal vulnerabilities and urging citizens to ponder the events of the past seven decades: “Your rulers are misleading you by singing songs on Kashmir and reading out scripts written … Read More
