TAPONEEL MUKHERJEE & POORNIMA VARDHAN Indian National Rupee (INR) has not been in news for the right reasons so far this year. It has been dragged down by the perfect storm of international pressures and geopolitical headwinds. However, the current situation is a...
Asad Mirza The reset of diplomatic ties between Turkiye and Israel may result in some new paradigm shifts at the regional level besides helping both to focus more on bilateral economic gains. Recently there have been indications both from Israel and Turkiye...
Syed Ali Mujtaba With senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad gone, the Congress graveyard is full. Even the BJP’s graveyard has little space left for the Congress Cast Away. With only a few men left standing and Rahul Gandhi all set to take the charge, people are...
SAQUIB SALIM In mid-July, two Muslim men killed a tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, in Udaipur accusing him of disrespecting Prophet Mohammad; another man recently stabbed Salman Rushdie in the US on similar grounds, and several others have issued calls to kill Nupur...
Syed Ali Mujtaba Now it’s becoming clearer why the NDTV is taken over by the Adani group. It appears to be a hostile act by the Adani Group where the NDTV was not consulted before the takeover. The hostility emerged after NDTV ran a story against the Adani group...
Asad Mirza Following the Supreme Court’s order in 2017, Muslim religious leaders had shown willingness to outlaw the Triple Talaq – a completely unIslamic practice, but alas even after five years they have not taken any concrete step in this regard. It seems as...
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...
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...