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Look beyond the bias
Boris Johnson might have been cavalier in his attitude towards the burqa. But by raking up an old controversy, is Dhesi reinforcing stereotypes than breaking them? Sardar Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Britain’s first ever Sikh MP, recently targetted the newly-appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson over his remarks about burqa-clad Muslim women. In...
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Politics of moon-sighting
30 May 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
Scattered Sindhi society
06 May 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
Imported jihad
26 April 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
The Easter question
18 April 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
An oath for swachh polls
04 April 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
The rail network dilemma
01 April 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta -
Rajdhani’s bull run
15 March 2019 | Priyadarshi Dutta
Needed, official version Act?
The nation awaits an unambiguous official version of the Balakot strike. Else, there is the risk of media and social media filling up the vacuum with fake and unsubstantiated news News spread like wildfire on Tuesday (February 25) morning that the Indian Air Force (IAF) had struck at Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror...
Expect the worst in Valley
Asymmetric warfare, like the one India faces in Kashmir, abounds in bloody surprises. The enemy is theologically motivated and democratic discourse is at the bottom of the barrel Cowardly, dastardly and desperate — these are some of the adjectives the Government uses when faced with surprise terrorist attacks on the armed...
An alternate universe
While the free world might have heaved a sigh of relief at the final acquittal of Aasia Bibi, she was just one example of continued victimisation by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws Bibi Aasia Noreen, the Pakistani Christian woman who was on death row for blasphemy, is finally out of the woods....
Vote for world peace
Had it not been for the success of the first general and Assembly elections in 1952, the great experiment of democracy would have failed in India and the world would not have been what it is Sukumar Sen, an Indian civil servant — the first Chief Election Commissioner of India no...
The stellar logic of Kumbh
Calendars can fall victims to the phenomenon of culture and nationalism supplanting astronomical principles that lie at their foundation A perusal of the official website of Kumbh Mela, 2019 — hosted by the Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran, Uttar Pradesh — reveals why this is not a kumbh at all. It mentioned...
