By Syed H. Hashmi At a time when the country is passing through a crisis of existential identity, it is incumbent upon the nation to rise to the defence of ideals of an enlightened and civilized concept of nationhood. Our venerable ancestors fought with all the might...
By Dr. Danish Lambe In an Islamophobic political atmosphere, the role & responsibility of minority departments in secular parties and Muslim politicians is to guide and lead the nation towards brotherhood, peace, and justice, as well as to preserve the...
By Saroor Ahmed Without getting engaged in the Hejab debate, the need of the hour is to make a dispassionate relook on practice of school uniform. This is because the concept of school dress is fast losing its real spirit. Instead of being a symbol of equality,...
Syed Ali Mujtaba The recent communal clashes reported during the Ram Navami festival from the different parts of the country suggest that the Hindu zealots have taken over the law order in their hands. They unleashed a reign of terror on the Muslim minority and there...
Maxim Mironov MADRID – When the war in Ukraine began, I was shocked to learn that most Russians apparently supported President Vladimir Putin’s aggression. I experienced a similar feeling when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election. My family was living in...
RAMZY BAROUD WHEN Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement be struck, Israel appeared on the list. The other...
By Frank F Islam 2021 was a trying year in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic and political polarization persisted. The economic divide between the wealthy and others widened. Inflation skyrocketed. One other thing that skyrocketed in 2021, which received far less media...
The whole hijab controversy, as usual, seems like a ploy to implement larger agendas in the sinister plans to convert India into an insular, Hindutva-dominated (essentially Brahminist) society. Shaj Hameed MUCH has been said about the hijab ban in Karnataka at the...
Ramazan this year coincides with the Great Lent, as observed by the Orthodox Christians that a majority of Ukrainians and Russians are. JAWED NAQVI WE are now into the month of Ramazan, a period of piety and self-reflection for Muslims, though one can’t tell that by...
RAMZY BAROUD WHEN a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to that of Daesh. In a rare admission...