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By AJAZ ASHRAF Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the recent OIC summit in Abu Dhabi struck a fine balance between emphasising the need to combat terrorism and clarifying that such a fight must

By Patralekha Chatterjee In a country that has suffered numerous terrorist attacks which prematurely snuffed out the lives of soldiers, policemen as well as countless civilians, it comes as no surprise that

By K C Singh The Balakot air attack by the Indian Air Force was an inflexion point in India-Pakistan relations and had three possible aims. One was of avenging the deaths of

By Reid Standish Sometimes ZharqynbekOtan can be found in the middle of the night, standing stiffly at attention beside the bed he shares with his wife, ShynarKylysheva. She says his memory fails

By Aslam Abdullah Rajab is the seventh month of Islamic Lunar Calendar. This month is a prelude to Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar in which Muslims are commanded to

By Firas Alkhateeb Today, there are over 500 million Muslims throughout the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), making it one of the largest population centers of Muslims in the world. Since

By Shobha Shukla Is the situation dismal? In a survey of experts done in 2018, India ranks as the world’s most dangerous country for women. It had ranked 4th in the same

By Subhash Gatade A WhatsApp-sponsored report, prepared in partnership with Queen Mary University, has raised the alarm that the 2019 elections in India, which already has cleavages on lines of caste, race,

By Veeksha Vagmita Motherhood, one of the last bastions of patriarchy, has been an unresolved issue for feminists. The equation of womanhood with motherhood, along with the idealisation of mothers, puts a

By M J Aslam Obscuring inherent contradictions: It is “a product of the collusion of Kashmiri and Indian majoritarian nationalisms, both of which needed to obscure the inherent contradictions in their logic