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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Rape as a political tool in India

The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua district of Indian-administered Kashmir is a chilling reminder of how sexual assault is used as a tool to instil fear…
April 21, 2018

A moral leadership deficit

This may sound like a rhetorical question but I would strenuously argue it’s not. Indeed, at the moment, for us in India, it’s a particularly pertinent and relevant one. What is the…
April 21, 2018

The banishment of Nawaz Sharif

On April 13, the Supreme Court of Pakistan decided that ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, earlier controversially disqualified from office, would not be able to contest elections for the rest of his life.…
April 21, 2018

The myth of appeasement

In the current debate on the place of the Muslims in India, one variable has not been factored in — their socio-economic situation — as if the dominant repertoire had shifted for…
April 21, 2018

The Hadiya caution

One of the sorriest episodes in India’s judicial history was finally brought to an end in March with the Supreme Court judgment in Shafin Jahan v. Asokan K.M., or the Hadiya case…
April 21, 2018

Marginalised from school

Although the recent Budget session of Parliament was appallingly disrupted by the ruling party’s surrogates and Question Hour did not function most of the time, some things did work, almost on autopilot.…
April 21, 2018

Burqa Is Not Trishul

A recent debate in The Indian Express on the country’s Muslims, triggered by Harsh Mander and taken forward by RamachandraGuha, elicited dozens of responses in a host of other publications. This is…
April 20, 2018

Eyeless in Gaza

Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who…
April 20, 2018
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