What’s striking is not just the evasion, but its elegance: a campaign that appears committed to human rights while deferring their application; a stage that…
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How Great can a Nation become?
When a State begins terrorizing its own citizens, how can one expect greatness from its rulers? Can regressive, dogmatic and dictatorial mindsets make a nation…
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‘There is a lot of misinformation about the new Waqf Amendment Bill’
A number of dargahs, graveyards and even mosques are such properties, and they face danger of being declared non-waqf Dr Shujaat Ali Quadri has been…
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Any Seeds of Hope Beneath the Rubble in Gaza?
If I were to issue an educated guess, it would be this: things will get even worse for the Palestinians in the short run. But,…
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‘My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner’
This is a letter by Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, dictated to his friends and family. It is a public letter. He was recently arrested…
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Is this the end of the Pluralistic Secular State in India?
The consecration of the Ram temple, in the presence of the PM and RSS chief, is a sign of the painful reality that the original…
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‘The political climate remains tense’
The protesters have highlighted various incidents including attacks on sex workers, harassment of students over clothing choices, moral policing, and assaults on girls’ football fields,…
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‘There is no question of Jamaat-Shibir coming to power. They are unsafe for the country. And the people have not forgotten their role in 1971’
Bangladesh remains communally harmonious. The allegations of persecution of minorities are baseless. Compared to the past, reactionary groups are behaving more sensitively. In the eyes…
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The Fate of a ‘Patsy’
The battlefields of Ukraine are not shaped by Downing Street pronouncements or Élysée declarations, but by decisions made in Washington and Moscow. The great European…
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Ukraine citizens flee frontline: War stretches for four years
Communities on the frontline of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are being killed, injured and displaced on a daily basis, as the war grinds on…
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