Why India’s largest minority is facing a silent and insidious campaign of fear and terror, wonders AIJAZ ZAKA SYED

One of the many blessings of globalisation has been the increasing state contempt for basic rights, rule of law and the so-called due process.  In post 9/11 times, anyone can be picked up from anywhere, tortured and quietly eliminated and nobody, including the victim, would have the faintest idea...

In Kalyan a Muslim youth Bilal Shaikh was slapped with a non-bailable cognisable offence (May 2012) under Section 333, after he jumped the traffic signal. He was assaulted brutally by the police for having arguments with them, suffered a fracture in the right arm and was in jail for eight days. The policemen who beat him up got released with the non-cognisable warrant.

Another Muslim youth Mohammad Amir Khan, 18, preparing for his school exams, was abducted by police, charged with bei...

Last week the devaluation of Indian Rupee in International market hit the headlines. The following day the same newspaper space was filled with the mysterious killing of a terror suspect in Pune’s high security jail.

Although, these two developments have nothing in common except a sense of devaluation. Last few years have been very tough for both – the Indian Rupee and Indian People – to hold their head high.

Let the economists ponder over the devaluation of ...