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By Sayandeb Chowdhury, Anirban Biswas Jayanta Ghosal’s article ‘Among the believers in Bengal’ (IE, March 26) is so full of cocky generalisations and mistaken observations that it needs a riposte. To begin

By P Chidambaram Finally, a political party has found the courage to bite the bullet. For too long we have ducked the issue, declined to face the moral argument, and trotted out

By Mehr Afshan Farooqi This is a marvellous verse, opaque and ambiguous, loaded with Persian izafat [genitive]. One can speculate that Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib ‘rejected’ it for these reasons. Yet, this

By Javed Jabbar Great Muslims of the West: Makers of Modern Islam by Muhammad Mojlum Khan is a valuable book that provides a wealth of information on a subject of great substance,

By NOVY KAPADIA For future generations, India’s runner-up finish, by a narrow margin in the 2017 women’s World Cup in England and the bravado in ousting favourites Australia in the semi-final will

By M.K. Venu It must shock the conscience of any nation that a judicial trial of major terror attack case ends up with the judge lamenting the fact that the prosecution “withheld”

By A.G. Noorani THE death in police custody of 29-year-old Rizwan Asad Pandit in the early hours of March 19 in Srinagar has aroused strong condemnation by unionists, separatists and civil society

By Mohammed Ayoob A debate has flared up, especially after the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala judgment, on whether the state should leave religion alone. I believe in the Indian context, it is more

By Zoya Hasan Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, several political parties opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have rallied around the idea of forming State-level coalitions to block the

By Shekhar Gupta Whether the Rafale deal is a scam or the best thing for India’s defence is for more eminent people to debate. Let me, meanwhile, list four facts emerging from