Opinion

By Asad Mirza  The now month old conflict in Israel has found a new supporter at the global level i.e. the right-wing Hindu nationalists. Though most of them do not have any clue that what is the real cause of...

Following Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984, Jagjivan Ram, a former Congress leader, characterized the general election results as a “vote for Hindu India,” underlining the rise of majoritarian politics. This trend stemmed from Indira Gandhi’s “Hindu card” strategy, which...

By Chris Hedges The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are...

By Dr Mansoor Durrani After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the Israeli occupied...

By Haider Abbas There are hardly ten months now for the next general elections and there may be a declaration of model code of conduct any day as state elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram are to...

A common feature of all Hindutva attacks in India is that the accused of gang rape are never punished, and in the absence of punitive measures, these incidents are repeated from one anti-minority attack to another. By Iftikhar Gilani The viral...

By Harsh Thakor On the morning of Tuesday, June 27 In Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, French neo-fascism was ressurected at a full brim. The police killed a 17-year-old teenager called Nahel Merzouk. The incident occurred after Nahel and his two...

India has slammed the door on China’s biggest Build Your Dreams (BYD) Electronic Vehicle (EV) company from investing here. Why has India done it and has left an open field to Tesla, the US giant and the only competitor...

By Dr M Qutubuddin The events that took place in the desert of Karbala in 680 CE during the battle between Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, and the tyrannical ruler Yazid ibn Muawiya, continue to shape...

By Harsh Thakor On 9th July, we celebrated the 85th birthday of legendary Hindi film actor, Sanjeev Kumar., known as Harihar Jariwala. Sanjeev Kumar penetrated zones of versatility or acting craft, almost unparalleled in Hindi cinema. He was one the very...