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The Politics Of Hate And Why Gujarat Will Not Do Justice To Bilkis Bano
Nothing in Gujarat is devoid of a political angle in New India. Politics is to Gujarat what Bollywood is to Mumbai. So, those trying to brush off the release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists as a “local decision” smacks of hypocrisy and typical…
TMC Goes All Out to ‘Clean Its Image’ in Bengal as Govt Sends New Rules to Districts to…
The new rules issued state that if money has been disbursed in the name of any project, and is seen utilised for any other purpose, legal action will be initiated against the culprits
Move to India or trust Taliban? Kabul’s Sikhs in doubt, 2 months after IS attack on gurudwara
The 18 June attack has made many in the already-dwindling community want to leave Afghanistan. But the Taliban realises that treating Sikh-Hindu community well may help relations with India. Kabul: In a wealthy quarter of Kabul known as…
Why Taliban wants India in Kabul and New Delhi is upscaling mission
The Taliban and India are joined at the hip by a single date – 15 August. The similarity ends there. The rise and fall of empires have neither diminished Kabul’s beauty, nor its brilliance. On the eve of the first anniversary of the Islamic…
‘What’s there to celebrate,’ Afghans ask as Taliban mark one year in power in Kabul
As former Taliban fighters roamed the streets of Kabul to mark their victory over the old regime, several Kabulis stayed at home out of fear. Kabul: Taliban foot-soldiers were out on the streets in full strength in Kabul Monday to mark…
Making khadi Tiranga: Women in Bengeri down but not out
Disappointed with government’s new diktat allowing the national flag to be made of polyester and in varying dimensions, the women continue to weave the Tiranga in khadi and hope for better days
‘No girl should go through such torture’
She was kidnapped by child traffickers when she was 14. Today, this 17 year old wants to become a lawyer so that she can help the survivors of such heinous acts. This interview will not be easy to read. But read it you must. In doing so,…
‘They Took Printouts of My Photos Without Permission… It Was a Witch Hunt’: St…
"Which rule did I violate? Why did they not do social media evaluation before they hired me?", asked the former professor who claims her images were uploaded before joining the university.
TURNING A BLIND EYE TO TORTURE
When Muhammad Iqbal was picked up in 1998 by the police on a charge of murder, from near his home in Mandi Bahauddin, he was barely 17 years old. Iqbal claims he was not even in the village at the time the said murder was committed and that…
50 Years of Statelessness: The Bengalis of Macchar Colony
Half a century on - 50 years after West Pakistan lost its eastern counterpart - those who had taken the painstaking journey all the way to present-day Pakistan, travelling in a state of starvation and poverty, and hoping for better times to…