Secularism

How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Talking songs

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Women of substance

The changing face of the heroine in Hindi cinema:...

Remembering Anthony Gonsalves

Midway through Manmohan Desai’s classic 1977 film about three...

Cinema & Secularism

Man is memory. We are nothing but the sum...

Of human compassion

Adversity, it is said, brings out both the best...

‘We have grown up together; how can we desert them now?’

Ishwarbhai R. Desai, Advocate, AhmedabadIshwarbhai R. Desai, an advocate...

A brave officer the Muslims could trust

Kuldeep Singh, Police Inspector, Jinjar village, Memdavad, KhedaJinjar village...

Chapter I – Introduction

Report of the CABE Committee on 'Regulatory Mechanisms for...

India: Where mass murderers go unpunished

1984: Anti Sikh Riots   In the last several decades, various...

Who’s Rashtra Is it Anyway?

Courtesy: Hindustan Times   THE FLAG-BEARERS of Hindutva, in their task...

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