Hate & Harmony

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

The RSS and the Freedom Struggle

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‘Teach them a lesson’

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The Sangh’s bloody trail

Hindu communal organisations have always maintained that it is...

Hubli hungama, Hindutva’s hypocrisy

At a press conference in New Delhi in August...

Blood for blood: An extract from Tamas

A young man’s chilling initiation into the world of...

Talaq Talaq Talaq

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‘We need to carry the ulema with us’

  Uzma Naheed Director, Iqra Education Foundation Member, AIMPLB   To begin with,...

Reform! reform! reform!

  Nazma Bibi, Orissa   Nazma Bibi is a 26-year-old Muslim woman...

‘No faith in the Muslim Personal Law Board’

Haseena Khan Co-ordinator, Awaaz-e-NiswanThe All India Muslim Personal Law Board...

‘Triple talaq has no place in the Koran’

Nilofer S. Akhtar Advocate, Mumbai high court, specialising in family...

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