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By Tawfeeq Irshad Mir Let’s assume Kashmir as a living body, it has got many dimensions with respect to quantum of health, it’s very ardent to describe the mental dimension of this…

By Valerian Rodrigues Within Indian common sense periodic elections, party-based competitive candidates, and universal adult franchise have turned out to be the primary ingredients of democracy. This common sense has come to…

By Bhaswati Chakravorty A day after the nation-stopping announcement about the success of Mission Shakti, a name befitting the prime minister himself, he was campaigning in Meerut. There he said that ‘this…

By RAM PUNIYANI After the ghastly tragedy of 9/11 2001, in which nearly three thousand innocent people died, the American state and media coined a new phrase, ‘Islamic Terrorism’. This was perhaps…

By SYED ABUL ALA MAUDUDI Israa is an Arabic word referring to Prophet Muhammad’s miraculous night journey from Makka to Jerusalem – specifically, to the site of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem –…

By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi Let us do some spiritual introspection to feel significance of parents and know their rights. Allah Almighty has blessed us with parents. The parents, who bear up well…

By Ejaz Naqvi Despite evidence to the contrary, we still have people who doubt whether Islamophobia exists. I have had comments on my posts essentially saying it is all made up. I…

By Ajaz Ashraf It will be a fallacy to judge the popular pull of secularism — or, more appropriately, the idea of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood — the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha…

By Zoya Hasan Congress president Rahul Gandhi has decided to contest from Wayanad in Kerala as a second Lok Sabha seat in addition to his Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He has…

By Neena Gopal The day that Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf drove into his official residence, set in the barricaded General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, from a road bound on one side by a…