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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Art doesnt belong to a single faith, says Academy president

Los Angeles, Feb 7 (PTI) Academy president Cheryl Boone...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary

Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet...

For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence

Perhaps it’s time that we appreciate the exasperation that...

अहिंसा, हिन्‍दू-मुसलमान एका, छूआछूत खात्‍मा और गांधी जी का करामाती चरखा

गांधी जी के लिए चरखा अहिंसा, स्‍वराज्‍य, एकता की...

Russia decriminalises domestic violence

One step towards “traditional values” means two steps back...

Yoga isn’t an all-Hindu tradition – it has Buddhist, even Sufi, influences

Two scholars dipped into 100 texts, and found that...

Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna in Conversation With Nilanjana Roy

This conversation with Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna was...

I was skeptical of the protests at Marina, it all changed when I witnessed it

People finally have become bulls to reaffirm their self-respect,...

‘We who Believe in Freedom cannot rest until it comes’

Full text of legendery activist Angela Davis at the...

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