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EditorAugust 16, 2022

SYED ALI MUJTABA The ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ program of the government, which will run from August 13 to 17, on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, has thrown up a maze and irregular thoughts process whose paths is difficult to chart the way. The Tiranga hype has intensified the battle for the real owner […]

EditorAugust 14, 2022

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 the road to democracy during the last 75 years. […]

EditorAugust 13, 2022

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 they say they are Muslim first, they will be dubbed as anti-Indian […]

EditorAugust 10, 2022

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 the kind of self-reliance that India arguably […]

EditorAugust 10, 2022

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 ask investigative […]

EditorAugust 8, 2022

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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 the magazine have put a painting of […]

EditorAugust 6, 2022

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 ethnicities and religions against one another… bend laws and abuse institutions”. […]

EditorAugust 3, 2022

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 partnership in an unprecedented manner. Delhi has decisively acted to become the Kremlin’s irreplaceable valve […]

EditorAugust 2, 2022

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 against the British rule. Ram Prasad Bismil was […]

EditorAugust 2, 2022

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 the communal issues that are blocking their progress for long. The Hindu-Muslim […]

Category: Opinions

Is the power of ‘Tiranga’ being used and abused in India?

Azaadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

India @ 75 – I am a Muslim First or Indian First?

India’s march towards ‘Aatmanirbharta’

It’s No Secret: News in America is in Trouble

Hindutva is finding Hindu traditions offensive: The illustrative case of ‘’The Week’’

Need to counter headwinds against democracy: USAID Chief

Eastern Economic Forum: A Grand Strategic Opportunity for India

A poet-revolutionary who gave India its freedom song

Tamil Nadu: Hindus-Muslims set an example of how to live in peace and harmony

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