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The colourful history of Holi and Islam

Holi was celebrated as Id-e-Gulabi during the reign of Mughal emperors like Shahjahan and Akbar. In Mughal India, it was also called “Aab-e-Pashi” (shower...

Concerned Citizens’ Group demands Ceasefire During Ramzan in J&K

The Concerned Citizens Group has issued a statement appealing for a complete ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir during the holy month of Ramzan. The...

#NotoNetanyahu No to complicity with Israel’s Apartheid

Statement by Activists, Academics and Concerned CitizensImage Courtesy:vosizneias.comIn the coming week, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tour different cities of India along with...

Muslims and I – Vijay Tendulkar

Illustration: Amili SetalvadNoted playwright, VIJAY TENDULKAR, recounts the story of his own life to illustrate how anti-Muslim prejudice makes deep inroads into the psyche...

Long Live the King

Don’t ask me why, but when I saw the image of Dilip Saab receiving the Padma Vibhushan award at the hands of Rajnath Singh,...

From Kauser Bano’s Unborn Daughter

Everything was all right, Amma! The tartness of the pickle you ate, your flavours of the earth, would often reach me… Filtering through your womb, the sun would find...

Modi and Mahabharata

The term society envisages collective community living of human beings. The origin of society preceded the emergence of the state and its limbs of...

Uniform Civil Code or Gender Justice?

Caught between the Sangh Parivar which has communalised an essentially secular concern for a uniform civil code and the orthodox Muslim leadership resistent to any change, the women's movement and other secular-democratic forces seem to have been gripped by - an intellectual paralysis. Unless these organisations de-communalise the demand and shift the focus of the debate to gender justice - not just Muslim, but all personal laws in India are loaded against women - the uniform civil code issue may prove to be a lethal weapon

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