With the U.S. veto held back at last, the U.N. Security Council, responding to a mounting global cry, finally demanded “an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. True, the council’
Whether Indian or not, cherishers of democracy should know of at least some troubling recent happenings in India.
On February 16, a French journalist who has worked in India for
Let me summarize some of the concerns harboured (or where possible voiced) by Indians as the Indian state took a prominent part in the inauguration on January 22 of an
As a Hindu from India, I feel shaken by a remark by Moumita Alam, a Muslim poet from West Bengal. On December 2 she wrote this sentence in the online
In an email to me, a keen Western scholar of eastern religions raises some important questions. Saying, “It seems to me that diversity, plurality and even relativism are hard-wired
In candid video statements, Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., has asserted that Israel will obliterate Hamas regardless of the Palestinian civilian death toll or Gaza’s
The online Indian news portal, The Wire, carries this report of a shooting inside a moving train (the Jaipur-to-Mumbai express) in the early morning of July 31, about
Commenting on the BJP’s defeat in a crucial regional election in Karnataka, one of India’s southern states, the columnist Mukul Kesavan writes in The Telegraph of Kolkata:
“The
What India is to Asia, Nigeria is to Africa and Brazil to Latin America. In numbers relative to their continent, in the diversity of their populations, and in democratic aspirations,
India: The Modi Question, a two-part BBC documentary shown in the UK during the second half of January, “cannot” be seen in India. The Indian government has invoked emergency
Often still recited in morning assemblies in several government and secular schools in north India, the Hindustani prayer, Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua (literally “Prayer that comes to the lips”
Everyone hanging on to the idea of a democratic and plural India has been heartened by the frank words with which a young Muslim student in a reputed institute of
