Opinion - Page 88

By Lukman Harees The future of more than 10 million Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority in (what is now) China, is looking increasingly bleak and grim. The current massive crackdown by the…

By Abul Ashraf New Year marks a whole new beginning. It’s always a mystery, we never know what lies ahead but we always hope that it is not disappointing. For some it…

By Ram Puniyani The index of health of democratic society is gauzed by the feeling of security experienced by the minorities. Similarly one can say that the degree of democracy in a…

By Varghese K. George Any rigid secular approach, unrestrained by considerations of electoral politics, could only lead to disapproval of Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s demonstration of his religious faith and his characterisation…

By Vikram Sampath Much is similar between the Western Wall in Jerusalem and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. During my first visit to Israel last week, I looked at the Wailing Wall of…

By Asad Ashraf It’s a small two room apartment with a tiny hall in it, deprived of sunlight, amid the chaos of narrow lanes and cluster of buildings in the vicinity, this…

By Shafquat Rabbee On December 30, Bangladesh finally held a much awaited parliamentary election. Close to 100 million Bangladeshis voted in 40,000 polling stations across the country. But even before polling began,…

By Michael Safi The world’s largest exercise in democracy looms in 2019. In the beachside towns of Kerala state, the mountain villages of the Himalayas and across the dusty cities of the…

By Dr.Inamul Bashir Social media addiction refers to a compulsive and excessive use of social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, TikTok, QZone, Skype, LinkedIn, Viber, Pinterest, Telegram,…

By Sankarshan Thakur The year that has begun might well turn out to be the most momentous in the memory of our lives, or in the memory of the lives of most…