Come October 31st 2016: India remembers Sardar Vallabhai Patel who was born on this day in 1875 in Gujarat; he was more famously called ‘the Iron Man of India’. As free India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, he worked tirelessly for national integration, fully convinced that groups likeContinue Reading
Retired Justice of Supreme Court , Justice Markandey Katju wrote (on 26 September 2016) to the Supreme Court judges, “You are aware that one Ikhilaq was brutally lynched by cow vigilantes in Dadri. Instead of severely punishing the perpetrators of this heinous outrage, the police and local judge are proceedingContinue Reading
The talk of a Uniform Civil Code has nothing to do with gender justice. It has entirely to do with a Hindu nationalist agenda to ‘discipline’ Muslims For nearly eight decades, the women’s movement has discussed and debated the desirability and feasibility of a Uniform Civil Code, and has endedContinue Reading
The World Food Day is on October 16) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17Continue Reading
‘When Nawazuddin Siddiqui — one of India’s finest actors — was told not to perform in a Ramleela, I realised how much Hinduism has been hijacked by Hindutva forces in the last 30 years,’ says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
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New Delhi: The “surgical strike” on the terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been considered a mature and unrivalled move by the Indian Army. For a country that is able to handle terrorists brilliantly, shouldn’t handling mosquitoes be only child’s play? What isContinue Reading
The Dalit scholar’s act will be imprinted in the minds of those that rule through the creation and perpetration of velivadas, and those of anti-caste resisters everywhere. The refusal of Velpula Sunkanna, a student of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), to accept his PhD degree from the Vice Chancellor PodileContinue Reading
India, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, ranks 141 among 163 nations in the Global Peace Index October 2 is the birth anniversary of GandhiContinue Reading
India has more than 300 million cattle – a third of the world’s bovine populationContinue Reading
I have tried to capture in my paintings what her presence meant to the destitute and the dying, the light and hope she brought by mere inquiry, by putting her hand over a child abandoned in the street… That is why I try it again and again, after a gapContinue Reading
