It is ironical to see the TIME International cover story reporting Modi among the polarising figure in Indian politics and placing him for votes for the upcoming TIME 100 issue. However, despite all hyped the picture which lies beneath is ugly and dirty enough to include people like Modi to even consider even for this poll, forget about including him in the TIME 100 issue. Modi is a man whose hand is dipped badly in the state-sponsored 2002 Gujarat genocide. In order to get ...

The recent ruling by the Darul Ifta – the fatwa department of the renowned Deoband seminary – that talaq uttered three times by an inebriated man on a mobile phone invalidates a marriage, is very unfortunate.  For all Muslims, the Qur’ān and the Sunnah are sacrosanct and they alone should form the basis for the so-called ‘fatwas’.  The Qur’ān instructs: “And if you have reason to fear that a [married] co...

Indeed the Bihar government’s characterisation of Forbesganj police firings as a minor incident that did not merit CBI inquiry is highly condemnable. This deep and insensitive assertion was seen by the said government in its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court in response to the notice seeking the state’s response for a CBI inquiry into the last year’s Forbesganj police firing incident. This incident occurred last year in June when four civilians were killed including a 10-...