Asad Mirza India is celebrating 75 years of its independence. An apt time to reconcile the republic’s gains and losses and also access where the critics of the current government have gone wrong. 15 August 2022, India and Indians have travelled a long way on...
SYED ALI MUJTABA As we approach the 75th anniversary of independence, once again the ‘Bajrangi Bhaijans’ are cornering the Indian Muslims to specify whether they are Muslim first or Indian first. The poor Muslims are unable to tackle this catch-22 question because if...
It was in May 2020 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the clarion call for a Bharat that was 'Aatmanirbhar'. It is important to clarify what this meant and what it did not. While a rough translation of the word is no doubt 'self-reliant', it is nevertheless not...
FRANK F ISLAM I’ve Got a Secret was an American TV panel game show that ran from the early ‘50‘s to the later 60’s. On the show, the panel tried to guess the secret of a contestant by asking a series of questions. More than one-half a century later, we do not have to...
SYED ALI MUJTABA Bibek Debroy a columnist with the magazine ‘The Week’ has written a piece on ‘Who is Kaalee? The fire has seven tongues, and one of these is Kali,’ on July 24- August 4, 2022 issue. His write-up has run into controversy because the illustrators of...
Asad Mirza On her recent visit to India USAID Administrator Samantha Power observed that “headwinds” against democratic rule are “strong” across the world currently, and that there are forces in India and the United States “who seek to sow division… pit...
ANDREW KORYBKO The 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) will take place in Russia's Far Eastern port of Vladivostok from 5-8 September and represents a grand strategic opportunity for India. These two Great Powers have expanded their special and privileged strategic...
AMITA VERMA It was Bismil Azimabadi of Patna who wrote "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qatil mein hai" in 1921, and it was Ram Prasad Bismil who immortalised the lines. The poem became a war cry in India's freedom struggle...
By SYED ALI MUJTABA Chennai: Hindus and Muslims of V Kalathur village in the Perambalur district of Tamil Nadu have amicably decided to bury their century-old differences and joined hands for the development of their place of living, rather than keep fighting over...
Frank F Islam This nation came into being because it won The Revolutionary War fought with Great Britain from 1775 to 1783. The United States of America itself was officially established in 1787 with the signing of the Constitution. In the decades and centuries since...