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By Asif Farrukhi The stinking water in a flower vase begins to swelter and bubble with fermentation as chemical processes unleash a life-giving change. A new form is born. Is it possible,…

By Adil Bhat The discourse on religious ‘reform’ in Muslim societies has largely centred on the figure of the Muslim woman. This has been an ongoing process, evolving throughout the periods of…

By Sanjay Srivastava In the three-day RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh conclave in Delhi that started on September 17, its chief Mohan Bhagwat suggested that its critics should stop worrying and learn to love the RSS.…

By Gul Bukhari Pakistan has long been considered one of the most dangerous countries to do journalism in, but matters have now attained ludicrous proportions with the arrest warrant against journalist Cyril…

By Devangshu Datta. The great Jadugar K Lal once told me that stage magic just involved using imagination, followed by careful scripting and practice. He said the really difficult thing was learning…

By Yogendra Yadav The recent outreach by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi seems to have succeeded in its principal objective: an image makeover for a niche audience.…

By Mohan Guruswamy The now down-on-its-heels Modi regime is getting ready to celebrate the “surgical strike” as one of its high points. It may well be so given the government’s threadbare record.…

By Niaz Murtaza The post-Cold War era has seen increased identity-based hatred that has often erupted in mass murder. Much of this has targeted minorities in non-democratic or transition states emerging from…

By Imtiaz Alam What has so abruptly reversed the Modi government’s consent to a meeting sans the resumption of the dialogue process between the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers on the sidelines…

By Christophe Jaffrelot In his recent lectures in New Delhi, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat used words that substantially qualified his utterances of the last few years. For instance, while addressing a…