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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

Breeze from Bangladesh

While Muslim orthodoxy continues to stonewall any attempt at...

Indian Muslims and the bumble-bee

According to all known laws of aerodynamics (science of...

A journey to remember

Perhaps for the first time, women from areas of...

‘India is, to me, a beacon of light on the sub-continent’

Text of Taslima Nasreen’s speech at the Mumbai Marathi...

TALIBAN STILL STINKS

The Taliban remains an extremist regime which undermines global...

WATER ON FIRE

How dare women presume to question their status? That...

‘Sati was a virtue’

The authors of Indian textbooks retain an extremely ambivalent...

Wages of divorce

The Mumbai High Court ruling in early May that...

Shah Bano Lives

 Illustration: Amili SetalvadNearly 12 years ago, an over 70-year-old...

Hindu Hypocrisy

The heavens do not tremble and threaten to crash...

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