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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…

Whitewashing Religious Freedom

By Dr Mike Ghouse India has an impeccable history of welcoming the stranger and giving refuge to the oppressed, rejected and the evicted. She has welcomed Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and the Baha’is.…
August 11, 2018

The menace of drug addiction

By Sameer Ahmad Thoker Addiction is a chronic propensity that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite their harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him/her. Drug abuse refers…
August 11, 2018

A Long Battle Ahead for Media Freedom

By Vagraj Badarayan The storm generated by the ouster of three high-ranking journalists from ABP News got a further boost with the explosive claims made by PunyaPrasunBajpai, one of the three journalists…
August 10, 2018
A masked protester holds a stone in his hand before throwing at Indian security forces during a protest after Eid prayers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 16, 2018. Police and residents say at least one young man has been killed and over a dozen others wounded as protests against Indian rule followed by clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir shortly after Eid prayers. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The nuances of 35A

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta The political legitimacy of the Indian state in Kashmir hangs on a very slender thread. This thread is the legitimacy of the Instrument of Accession, and the negotiations…
August 10, 2018

Don’t shoot the messenger

By Anjali Mehta Since it was introduced to the world in 2009, WhatsApp has become one of the more popular messaging apps with an estimated 1.5 billion users worldwide. It was acquired…
August 10, 2018

Hajj: Origin and Significance

By Syed Abul Ala Maududi Hajj, or the Pilgrimage, is the last among those acts of Worship, which Islam enjoins upon you. Like the prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, it mounds your life…
August 10, 2018

The essentiality of mosques

By A. Faizur Rahman The importance of mosques in Islam has come into focus again. During the hearing of the Babri Masjid case, advocate Rajeev Dhavan asked the Supreme Court to reconsider…
August 10, 2018

The Unprecedented Loneliness

By Arshad Alam Another day another lynching. The numbers only keep increasing with each passing year. According to IndiaSpend.com, since 2010, there have been 87 incidents of cow related violence in India…
August 10, 2018

End of an epoch: on M. Karunanidhi’s death

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi “Jakkirathaiya irunga,” he said in Tamil, over which his command was legendary. “Take care” is how the phrase would translate. But in the way he said it, laying stress…
August 9, 2018

Tehran’s troubles

By Mahir Ali IT may have been more prudent for Donald Trump to make the overture before delivering the ballistic message in capital letters. But then, prudence is hardly a quality anyone…
August 9, 2018
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