Jinnah Alive and Haunting BJP

SOROOR AHMED analyses the Jinnah storm in the shattered cup of BJP and says that the party has two different yardsticks to punish or reward its leaders....

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• Unending Debate on Jinnah

Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan

With elections just around the corner in Afghanistan, it might be timely to reflect on the US engagement with that stricken nation and consider just how much foreign intervention has contributed to the prospect and possibility of free and democratic ...

Mangalore College bans hijab

Sri Venkatraman Swamy (SVS) College, run by the SVS Vidyavardhaka Sangha at Vidyagiri in Bantwal, in the coastal Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, directed Aysha Ashmin, 19, a first year B Com student, not to enter the classroom with a headscar...

Why is Obama Silent when Disaster Returns?

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Burqa Ban in Mangalore Negates Secular Ethos

Except for some professional courses like nursing, medicine, law or management, colleges do not prescribe uniform for students. In matters of dress laissez faire prevails in campuses. But Karnataka’s Dakshin Kannada district (DK in short) is wi...

Complainants are also Under Scanner

The two-member Facts Finding Committee reached Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on August 20 and started the process of probe into ‘the allegations against the Vice Chancellor as also the counter allegations made against the complainants’ ...

A Culture Called Truth

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Hence Islam’s emphasis on truth, whether you call it Sidq, which in some ways you may consider to be small, everyday, even conversational and v...

In Pitiable Disarray

The dismissal of BJP’s veteran leader Jaswant Singh, who held three important portfolios of Defence, Finance and External Affairs, is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in this party-out-of-power. This shows that the BJP’s sharp sli...

A View through a Veil

Freedom, that is precious, cannot be one-sided. If freedom gives a licence to some women for wearing revealing dresses, knickers, bikinis and jeans then how does it stop some other women from wearing their chosen dresses? argues SHAHIN KHAN...