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By Sudheendra Kulkarni In my relatively short but intense association with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, three things left a deep imprint on me. For a political leader of great eminence, he was unbelievably

In times of turbulence and disruption, a nation is blessed to have a leader who rises to become its moral compass and guiding spirit, providing vision, cohesion and direction to his people.

Modi speaks of the world as one family

By Madhav Godbole Mob lynching has emerged as a formidable threat to the image of India as a civilised country. India has truly become Lynchistan, rather than Hindustan, as some protagonists of

By Syeda Hameed WAGAH: tum aao gulshan-e Lahore se chaman bar dosh hum aayein subh Benaras ki raushni le kar Himalaya ki hawaon ki taazgi le kar phir iske baad ye poochhein

By Sean William White When the Prophet was forced to immigrate to Medina, the population was “a mixture” (akhlat) of many different tribes (predominantly Arabic and Jewish), who had been fighting for

By Saeed Naqvi I had barely registered that the sword of Damocles hung on the heads of over four million people, mostly Muslims, in Assam by a very Orwellian sounding National Register

By Jamal Badawi According to the Quran mercy or compassion as a divine attribute is one of the most notable and highly emphasized of the divine attributes. It suffices to say that

By Aanchal Malhotra “Are you not tired of listening to this old story?” asked the 90-year-old woman I had travelled from Delhi to Chandigarh to meet. “I’ve been talking for hours.” Her

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta “Indeed it is a strange disposed time/ But men may construe things after their fashion/Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” Somehow this admonition by Cicero to