With three Rio-bound athletes publicly restrained from travelling to Brazil to participate in the Olympic Games (one later allowed to travel but not finally cleared for participation, at the time of writing), and a Rs 25 crore haul of party drug ‘meow meow’ by a special cell of Delhi Police … Read More
The recent slitting of a catholic priest’s neck in Normandy (July 26, 2016); the weaponisation of a truck to mow down 84 persons on Bastille Day in Nice (July 16, 2016); the attack on the French football team in the Euro 2016 Final when French President Francois Hollande was in … Read More
In an act of rare intellectual daring, the beleaguered Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir have taken recourse to the Indian Constitution to hit back at the extreme majoritarianism practiced by successive regimes in the State. The Supreme Court has accepted a public interest petition (489/2016) that was rejected by the … Read More
Early in the morning of July 16, as the world woke up to news of an ongoing coup d’état in Turkey, by a group that identified itself as “Peace in the Country Council,” it was soon clear that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would beat back the attempted … Read More
His valiant efforts to defend India’s position on climate change in the face of US opposition at the Paris Conference accounts for Prakash Javadekar’s elevation to Cabinet rank (in the Ministry of Human Resource Development) but does not fully explain his abrupt exit from the Ministry of Environment & Forests. … Read More
Much of the early commentary following Britain’s sensational vote to quit the European Union was conspicuous by an aversion to admit that Brexit represents a revolt of the poor, marginalised working and middle classes that have long been at the mercy of a dehumanizing system of mobile capital aggravated by … Read More
A swift and massive resistance launched by Jammu For India (JFI) has compelled the coalition People’s Democratic Party – Bharatiya Janata Party government to scuttle the Jammu and Kashmir Alienation of Land and Transfer of Property Act by referring the same to a select committee of the Assembly. The Bill … Read More
Cracks are appearing in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government led over the issue of Genetically Modified (transgenic) crops. The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests has revived a committee to consider proposals on new GM crops (Minister Prakash Javadekar bats for the technology on grounds of food security), while … Read More
It would have been fitting for the Government of India to designate the miniscule Hindu community that was brutally driven out of Kashmir valley in 1990 as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on the occasion of the United Nations-sponsored World Refugee Day. Instead, Hindus who fled West Pakistan after the war … Read More
In recent times, two books have captured the essence of the dilemmas and challenges facing the contemporary Muslim world, viz., The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah (2015) and Jihadist Threat to India by Tufail Ahmad (2016). By a strange coincidence, both authors are sub-continental Muslims who … Read More
