Communalism

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Rebel and her cause

If women have been the worst hit by the Islam sought to be imposed on Afghanis, the most determined resistance to the fanatics has also come from an organisation of women — RAWA

Match for the mullahs

They may be small in number, as yet, but RAWA activists are not shy of challenging the fanatics out on the streets

Uncle Sam sins

How do you discover that your friend is, in fact, your enemy? Ask the CIA

And others pay for them 

The US can well–afford its  misadventures since  its always someone else who pays for them — Iraqi women, for example

Bred on hatred, ready for the Bomb

Be it India or pakistan, the state, the mainline...

Will Jammu go to the Kashmir way?

Some among the Kashmiri pandit who had to migrate...

Invitable logic

The communalisation of the militant movement was a forgone...

Who loses in the head-count?

The migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, after...

State and the valley

COUNTER–INSURGENCY sarkari militant groups patronised by the Army, the...

My mind went mad for a day

Elderly Sikhs on the Indo-Pak border share moving accounts...

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