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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali

Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village

My mind went mad for a day

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

Bias on record

Dongri 1 to Police Control: Two military trucks have...

Where is your Allah now?

  The police force in Bombay, in Maharashtra and all...

Isn’t it awful how we refuse to learn from our mistakes?

  On the day (February 16) he presented his 700-page...

Through the prism of prejudice

 Like the average Hindu, the average Hindu policemen also...

Cry Coimbatore

  Thirteen bomb blasts ripped through Coimbatore in mid-February, claiming...

When Lankan nobility invited Nayakkars from south India to rule

Leslie Gunawardana, a leading historian, currently vice-chancellor University of...

Buddha’s Lions and Tamil Tigers

Just opposite the Bandarnaike Memorial Hall in Colombo stands...

‘SC should recall its order’

  'Communalism Combat' requested Mr. H.M. Seervai, distinguished jurist, author...

‘Where then, O Lord, shall we turn’

  Fali S. Nariman            ...

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