Owaisi retort to Bhagwat: We would protest (CAA) again and again

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remark that “some people misled our Muslim brother” on the CAA evoked a strong reaction from...

Why some “rapes” are by “upper-caste” and others only by “men” if accused are Muslims?

A young girl from Hathras dies after a violent attack on which the jury is still out if it was a rape. A similar case occurs in another Uttar Pradesh district, Balrampur,...

If anything, Facebook has palpably been a Congress card: Here’s the evidence

A report appears in Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It names Ankhi Das, the policy head of Facebook in India as sympathetic to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is accused of...

For a few in the family, the Independence Day carries little meaning

A sudden call from across the border took Gian Chand by surprise. His close relatives, his uncles (Chachas), settled in Pakistan were visiting India to meet their...

Iran’s supreme leader is now tweeting in Hindi; does it signal a thaw on India?

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, current Supreme Leader & Former President of Iran has opened a new official Twitter account in Hindi.

To a Hindu child, Kashmir Valley even in the 70s was a nightmare

It was the summer of 1973, if my memory serves me right, when my father got his transfer orders to Srinagar. My father, working in Central government department, got too...

How erstwhile J and K discriminated for Muslims against non-Muslims

The manner in which the Legislature of Jammu and Kashmir defined "Permanent Residents" (called State Subjects earlier) worked against Hindus and Sikhs arriving here from...