A Money-Making Industry

By SYED KAZIM...

Striving for Solution of National and Community Issues Using RTI

Right to Information is the right of the citizens of the country, under which the citizens can obtain any information from any government body or governmental institution. Many countries in the world came up with new laws regarding this right. In Ind...

Preventing Sectarian Violence Need for a Bill to Prevent Communal and Targeted Violence

RAM PUNIYANI terms the communal and fascist forces’ argument that to define the targeted minority is to divide the nation as a mechanistic one, and underlines the need of debate and passage of Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to...

What It Means to Be a Woman in Kashmir?

WIDOWS AND HALF WIDOWS
Saga of extra-judicial arrests and killings in Kashmir
Afsana Rashid
Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd, D-84 Abul Fazl Enclave-I, Jamia Nagar, New
Delhi – 110 025, India
192 pp / PB
Rs 200 / USD 13
 
Rev...

Badruddin Ajmal Condemns Violence, Calls for Justice to the Victims

In a letter to PM Manmohan Singh on October 4, Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and President All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), condemned the flare-up of communal violence in Rudrapur and surrounding areas, in the st...

I Saw a Muslimah at Peace with Herself

By NAZEEHA BINT RENARD...

THE SYRIAN UPRISING US Follow a Failed path

United States ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm and, oftentimes, anger.
When he made a highly touted appe...

Understanding the Revolution

By FEROZ SULTAN...