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Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to receive packets of biscuits thrown at them as handouts. (Photo: AP)

A facade of refugee doesn't hold water

There is no doubt there has been violence in Myanmar and army action on Rohingyas is also not untrue.

24 Sept 2017 4:45 AM IST

Child sexual abuse is an under-reported offence in India and has reached epidemic proportions.

Failing our children

Sexual violence amongst children is notoriously difficult to measure.

18 Sept 2017 2:02 AM IST

Demonstrators hold placards with the picture of journalist Gauri Lankesh during a Not In My Name protest, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday (Photo: PTI)

The beast in human beings

There have been philosophies and ideologies that inspired human beings through self-suffering and sacrifice in the...

11 Sept 2017 1:19 AM IST

Journalist marched to demand a speedy probe in the Gauri Lankesh murder case.

Cracking the case not easy

A case of this nature has its inherent constraints. The absence of streetlights poses the problem of identification of...

11 Sept 2017 1:17 AM IST

Editor, social activist and a virulent critic of right-wing groups, Gauri Lankesh, was shot dead Tuesday night outside her residence in Bengaluru. (Photo: Facebook)

Without fear or favour

Conversations resounded with the idea of Gauri Lankesh as a radical and the radical as someone to be dispensed with.

11 Sept 2017 1:14 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Photo: AP)

Good, bad and ugly side of religious icons

Ashrams (I use this word loosely) give their inmates food and shelter either free or at affordable rates.

3 Sept 2017 5:18 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, 50, had been convicted on Friday of raping the two women at the sprawling headquarters of his hugely popular Dera Sacha Sauda sect in Haryana, in a case dating back more than 15 years. (Photo: AFP/File)

People should speak up against rogues, says Anshul Chatarpati

We never received any direct threats but there was pressure to withdraw the case, says Anshul Chatarpati.

3 Sept 2017 5:18 AM IST

Dera Sacha Sauda founder and rape convict Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim. (Photo: File/PTI)

OMG! The Messy Messiahs

Controversial charlatans from various religious groups have thrived across India for decades.

3 Sept 2017 5:17 AM IST

Triple talaq is not legal anymore, but this is an unsatisfactory state of affairs and can often leave a woman married according to her and divorced according to her husband.

Triple talaq has gone, but too many questions remain

It's is time to enact a statutory, gender neutral law on Muslim divorce.

27 Aug 2017 1:15 AM IST

Women celebrate Supreme courts decision to strike down triple talaq.

Historic ruling a victim of votebank politics?

The verdict has also unsettled regional players, mainly SP, BSP and RJD, whose poll numbers largely depend on the Muslim...

27 Aug 2017 1:05 AM IST

Akhila Ashokan, aka Hadiya, with Shafin Jahan

Forced conversion exists, we need law to prevent it

The SC-sanctioned NIA probe into the Ashokan case implies that our reservations are not entirely unfounded.

20 Aug 2017 6:48 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Romeo jihad a weapon? It's a stretch!

The right to practice one's religion includes the right to propagate it but of course any form of allurement or coercion...

20 Aug 2017 6:43 AM IST