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By Zeeshan Rasool Khan Allah Almighty has bestowed Messenger of Islam (pbuh) with an indescribable grandeur. Many Quranic verses are a testament to the eminence of Muhammad (pbuh). One of these verses

By Tariq Ramadan When I started to write a book about the Messenger, it was quite important for me to reconnect the academic work that we have, when it comes to talking

By Patralekha Chatterjee Are citizens and dissenters two separate groups of people? How far will ordinary people be willing to resist when confronted with situations not to their liking? What role does

By Kalpana Kannabiran Privacy was declared as a fundamental right by the Supreme Court in August 2017. Yet, a year later, on August 28, we were witness to searches and arrests that

By K.B.S SIDHU The IAS, the successor of the heaven-born Indian Civil Service of the British Raj, is under an increasing onslaught from the other all-India and central services. The latter has

By Sandeep Bamzai Most people are curious about why Satya Pal Malik was sent as the new governor of Jammu and Kashmir at this crucial time. The general reaction is “Malik, who?”

By Venkatesh Kesari & Seema Mustafa All is not well with the National Democratic Alliance, with the Bharatiya Janata Party finding itself increasingly isolated within. The arrests and raids on activists in

By Nitin Pai Last week, when the US government announced it would “re-programme” $300 million in military assistance to Pakistan, it was only the latest in a series of actions that have

By Suhasini Haidar A year after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his “South Asia policy” for Afghanistan, senior American officials will be in the region for talks this week. Secretary of State

By Sankarshan Thakur Somewhere in his copious meditations on the nature of Soviet Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had made a remark whose truth has far outlasted the life of his oppressor regime. Paraphrased,