By Mujeeb Jaihoon Amid the existential crises of Indian Muslims after Partition, the constitutional assurances given to the collective identity was vital in ameliorating the fears of the Muslim community. While individual freedoms are tenable while interpreting the...
If India fails, the entire subcontinent will fail. Secularism will fail. Tolerance will cease. Multiculturalism will end. I submit that there is no safety in silence. Responsibility rests with us all. DR SAMINA SALIM THE decision to travel amidst a pandemic is not...
By A.J. Philip When I got a job at The Tribune in Chandigarh in 2003, one of the first things I did was to go to my favourite bookshop, ‘Fact and Fiction’, near Priya Cinema at Vasant Vihar and buy the two-volume ‘A History of the Sikhs’ by Khushwant Singh. I hope a...
2022 must not be allowed to be another year of pessimism. RAMZY BAROUD ALTHOUGH 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022, as well. These are but a few of the...
Asad Mirza It seems a paradox. But one of the oldest democracies of the world, the US which has the habit of preaching the world about democracy and democratic traditions, including to the largest functioning democracy of the world i.e. India, it itself is facing a...
Instead of addressing real issues concerning the life, bread and butter of the nearly 12 crore Biharis, the CM is chasing a mirage called prohibition Abdul Qadir BIHAR’S BIMARU journey dates back to mid 1950s when the then rulers employed thousands of semi-literate...
A G NOORANI KASHMIR is in flames today. This is not a characterisation of the violence which has gripped it since 1989. It is far deeper than that. Kashmir fears that the government of India headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is out to foist on Jammu and Kashmir...
All popular Palestinian uprisings of the past were initiated at times when Israel assumed that it had the upper hand, and that people’s resistance has been forever pacified. RAMZY BAROUD WITH Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting...
“Let all religions and other right thinking people unite against the onslaught on family system being perpetrated by the forces of economics in collaboration with political forces!” Staff Reporter “After decriminalization of Homosexuality and adultery three years...
By Frank F Islam The opposite of left is right, the opposite of right is wrong/ So anyone who’s left is wrong, right? Those are lyrics from a song that the brilliant Stephen Sondheim wrote for his 1964 musical Anyone Can Whistle. In 2022, because of the polarization...