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Students and local residents protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

India burns: Can't stop this thing we started

The State responded with deliberate pointed violence.

24 Dec 2019 1:34 AM IST

Anti-CAA protesters hold placards and shout slogans at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Rape and CAA: Both are strifes for space

Hearing my friends talk about the Citizens Amendment Act and the NRC allowed me an opportunity to tap into the subtext.

23 Dec 2019 2:46 AM IST

Many of us with a Western education consider our clerical parties a retrogressive force that wants to push Pakistan back to the medieval era.

White-collar hooliganism, groupthink & Ziaist schools

Sizeable sections of Pakistan's professional classes are outright hooligans and gangsters.

23 Dec 2019 12:43 AM IST

In yet another case of a juvenile being sexually targeted, a 61-year-old man allegedly raped his neighbours six-year-old daughter at Kurla in central Mumbai after luring her with chocolates.

Exploring the idiom of bodily integrity'

The idea of bodily integrity has not been extended to deconstruct the hegemony of heterosexual patriarchal caste...

22 Dec 2019 12:49 AM IST

Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi outside the court on Wednesday. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

A letter to Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya'

In the Indian Penal Code, the punishment for rape is now 10 years of imprisonment, even as it is a criminal offence and...

20 Dec 2019 5:52 AM IST

The sum of the three elections, and the re-election and election of strong-arm politicians with a history of hating Muslims, should concern everyone.

Islamophobia, and a tale of 3 elections in India, UK, US

With Brexit will come a more complex set of mechanisms that determine travel to the UK.

20 Dec 2019 5:48 AM IST

Students of Nizamia Tibbi (Unani) College boycott classes in protest against putting effect the controversial amendments in the Citizenship Act in the city on Wednesday.

New law on citizenship is legally quite sound

Illegal immigration into Assam has been a continuing tragedy for a long time.

19 Dec 2019 4:51 AM IST

Pakistans former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (Photo: AFP)

Death sentence for Musharraf a clear message to the military

Musharraf is required to be present in the country to file an appeal against his conviction but his return is...

19 Dec 2019 4:47 AM IST

Human rights groups and outside experts say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in a network of internment camps across the far-western region. (Photo: AFP)

De-radicalising' Uighur Muslims: Is the Chinese action justified?

The Chinese claim has not been verified by independent sources and mystery shrouds its deradicalisation or re-education...

18 Dec 2019 2:42 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

The end of a dream, or new beginning for UK?

Muslims expect humanity to persecuted Hindus abroad will damage their civic rights.

18 Dec 2019 2:40 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Assam protests due to politics of xenophobia

The protests in Assam and Meghalaya were against the Citizenship Amendment Act alone.

17 Dec 2019 7:45 AM IST

Many of us with a Western education consider our clerical parties a retrogressive force that wants to push Pakistan back to the medieval era.

World faces a perfect storm of discontent

In Pakistan, we have a special case where mobs are usually associated with religious movements or parties.

17 Dec 2019 7:42 AM IST