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Padmavati: Time for silent majority to speak

All this mayhem over ‘Padmavati’ roiling India is not really about the imagined romantic encounter between a Hindu queen and a Muslim emperor, as Hindutva hotheads insist.

Rohingya genocide and global indifference

More than six million Jews are said to have perished in the organized mass slaughter, perhaps history’s first, in Germany and across Europe under Hitler. Millions more were forced from their homes and lands of their ancestors.

Can Rahul Rescue the Congress?

What’s Rahul Gandhi having these days for breakfast? The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has been on a roll having discovered, in the words of that whacky hero in movie, Austin Powers, his ‘mojo’. His stinging attacks on Narendra Modi ...

How Indian media targets the victims

I have always been a news junkie of sorts. While everyone in my family has been a compulsive reader, I am not sure when I moved from children’s literature to newspapers and magazines.

Drain the swamp of sectarian hatred

The past week has been one of the deadliest in Afghanistan’s eventful history. It was one of the deadliest even by the tragic standards set in the country over the years. More than 200 people were killed in a series ...

Can BJP's Ayodhya gambit work again?

THE more things change for the BJP and its Parivar, the more they remain the same. When in doubt or facing slightest rough weather, it reverts to the reassuring comfort of its tried and tested Hindutva agenda.

Why Hindutva loves to hate Taj Mahal

ONE of the many zany ideas that had apparently been doing the rounds in the run up to the Partition included the demand to move the iconic Taj Mahal to the promised land of Pakistan.

End of good times for the BJP?

HAS the tide finally started turning against Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? Only months ago, the prime minister whose meteoric rise defying the fame of Gujarat pogrom and numerous court cases surprised many appeared invincible.

Sky is the limit for Saudi women

Change has come to Saudi Arabia. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has decreed that women can drive.

Where are the sanctions against Myanmar?

BY announcing a token aid of $32 million to the Rohingya refugees, the US has at last acknowledged the deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar. Given the overwhelming nature of the crisis, this is like a drop in the ocean. ...