By Manzar Imam New Delhi: In a sultry afternoon in Delhi, with added post-rain humidity, one hardly bothers to spare time for fine things. However, beauty has its own ways of capturing the imagination. I had one such moment on Sunday, 22 September 2019. The ‘Artizen Art Gallery’ housing the “7th art n art National...
By: Faheem Usmani Qasmi Nowadays, encircled in the news clip is the verdict by a district court in Rajasthan in Pehlu Khan’s case. The verdict escalated a storm of criticism against poor performance of Rajasthan police and administration and it completely shaken the family of Khan to the core. The story started two years back...
Malafide propaganda created wrong narrative nationwide. By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi “Influx has been mainly from Bengal (to Assam). After 1947, many Hindus gradually shifted to Assam from West Bengal within India and many Muslims infiltrated from East Bengal which was Pakistan till 1971 and is Bangla Desh thereafter.” – stated by one Ahmad Rashid Shervani...
India’s revocation of Kashmir’s relative “autonomy” embodies everything that its new “Israeli” ally wishes it could do to Palestine such as eliminating its separate political status and giving non-residents of the UNSC-recognized disputed territory the right to buy property there as part of its long-term plan to wage demographic warfare against the locals, yet few...
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan It was in August of 1953 that my grandfather wrote, “In the early hours of the night of August 9, I and my cabinet were dismissed without a confidence motion of the Assembly by the legally and constitutionally questionable fiat of the Head of the State. I was put under arrest...
The government, on Monday, introduced a resolution to remove provisions of Article 370, which provides special status to Jammu and Kashmir. In addition, Home Minister Amit Shah also introduced a Bill bifurcating the State of Jammu of Kashmir into Union Territory of Ladakh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Restrictions under Section 144 CrPC...
By: Faheem Usmani Qasmi India, the largest democracy where we have the freedom of speech, and media being the fourth pillar of democracy, is supposed to be the highest form of freedom of speech. However when a journalist delves a little peeper, he starts questioning the entire nation as he sees something wrong prevailing in his...
Dr.Nyla Ali Khan The Indian Constitution has been blatantly violated in Kashmir and the ideals it enshrines completely forgotten. Forces have arisen which threaten to carry this saddening and destructive process further still. The Indian Constitution sought to guarantee an independent judiciary, an honest electoral process, and rule of law. It is not surprising that...
Aditya Menon Kashmir is in crisis but no one really knows what the crisis is. The only piece of information from the government in the public domain is a statement from Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik’s office that “there were inputs of a possible attack on the Amarnath Yatra”. J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik...
This hurts their performance and their post-graduation prospects. Proficiency in only a regional language also restricts them to regional opportunity and discourse. For better or worse, the highest levels of Indian business, bureaucracy, diplomacy, media, education and so much more function primarily in English. A great number of global institutions do so too. Shudras have...