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By Vidya Subrahmaniam So game, set and match to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? With just over two months left for the general election verdict to come in, the predominant sense, whether in

By Mohan J.Dutta The shootings carried out by right wing White extremists in Christchurch are part of a global network of racist terror that are often legitimized, sponsored, and reproduced by the

By Patrick Kingsley The massacre of 49 people in New Zealand on Friday highlights the contagious ways in which extreme right ideology and violence have spread in the 21st century — even

By Nasim Yousaf No powerful ruler transfers power unless his/her reign is threatened and he/she can no longer continue. AllamaMashriqi’s private army of Khaksars in British India was indeed instrumental in bringing

By A.G. Noorani Relations between India and Pakistan have nosedived since NarendraModi became prime minister in 2014. If anyone thought that he would make up the loss by a conciliatory policy towards

By Raza Naeem One thing is common among all the good and great writers: a deep sympathy with humans; an ability to view and understand the various aspects of human character and

By Girish Shrivastava Recently, poetry lovers and youth enthusiasts celebrated the 108th birth anniversary of the most prominent revolutionary poet of our subcontinent, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, at a New Delhi bookstore. The

By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan, predictably, banned NanditaDas’s film “Manto” last year because “it does not subscribe to the correct version of the Partition”. Filmgoers were outraged in Lahore, Manto’s city, and even

By AMIT UPADHYAYA In his 53-year-long career, filmmaker Yash Chopra had long associations with several colleagues, including actors Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan. But the longest and perhaps the most fruitful

By S. Arshad ‘La IkrahaFiddeen’ (no compulsion in matters of faith) is the phrase that sums up the basic philosophy of the Quran. On various occasions, it points out this message for