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
Startling allegations have surfaced from Kairana, a small town in Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, that for the past two years Hindu families have been forced to migrate out of fear of a dreaded gangster, Mukim Kala. Kairana is barely 124 kms from Delhi. The news, broken on June … Read More
Tensions are rising in Jammu province following the Jammu & Kashmir Speaker’s decision to accept a Private Member Resolution by Congress MLA G.M. Saroori for a separate Chenab Valley Hill Development Council, on the lines of the Leh & Kargil Hill Development Council. On May 31, the Speaker also accepted … Read More
The India-Iran-Afghanistan trilateral would be a momentous development even if it did not coincide with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s convincing victory in Assam and gains in other States. The Chabahar port and connectivity project leapfrogs Pakistan’s implacable opposition to an Indian presence in Afghanistan and will transform the Iranian port … Read More
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has triggered deep unrest in large sections of the State with her decision to appoint Siddiqullah Chowdhury as Minister of State with Independent Charge of Education, Library and Parliamentary Affairs. Banerjee had already startled the nation with her decision to take oath of office … Read More
The massive campaign launched by the Hindu community in the United States against an Indophobic narrative that sought to erase the very mention of India from California school textbooks on grounds that “India did not exist before 1947”, achieved a small success when the full membership of the Instructional Quality … Read More
The “green revolution” that India has been following for several decades has contributed an enormous amount of greenhouse gases, mainly nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4), to the atmosphere. A single molecule of nitrous oxide, a by-product of urea usage, when released through a process of denitrification, stays in the … Read More
Yahya Al-Shoghri, filmed while being executed by Islamic State in Raqqa in 2014, repulsed orders to chant “long live the caliphate” as his dying words and retorted “it will be erased.” This epitomized the Syrian resistance to the terror backed by Western and Gulf States for regime change; in the … Read More
“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.” So said Dr B.R. Ambedkar, independent India’s first Law Minister, who is credited with reviving Buddhism centuries after its decimation by iconoclasts. As Ambedkar renounced his Hindu roots in despair over repeated … Read More
On Holi, last month, Muslims in some cities stepped forward to shower festival processions with petals and participate in ‘Holika dahan’, symbolising the triumph of purity over evil. This is not the first time the community has made such spontaneous gestures of goodwill. But it is a time when voices … Read More
