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Every chapter of the book tells an equally sordid tale of a young life destroyed by police and other government security agencies. (DC Image)

Book Review | Cut down in their prime and living with the tag of...

Overall, the book compiles the ordeals of 16 such young men

24 Oct 2021 2:43 AM IST

Cover page of The Meeting of Minds: A Bridging Initiative by Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed. (Twitter)

Muslims are geographical Hindus'

For dialogue to succeed between Muslims and RSS-oriented Hindus, it is imperative for both sides to admit that there...

18 July 2021 1:41 AM IST

Pinki Chaudhury, Hindu Raksha Dal chief

Hindu Raksha Dal stakes claim to JNU attack

There was no immediate reaction from the police on Chaudhury's claims.

8 Jan 2020 1:24 AM IST

Mein Bonsai Apne Samay Ka (Hindi) By Ramsharan Joshi Rajkamal Prakashan, Rs 399

Autobiography of a journalist provokes, informs, entertains

In fact, a plethora of journalists (both English and Hindi) of yore and present in India have lived life by Marxist...

15 Dec 2019 6:32 AM IST

The House of Islam: A Global History by Ed Husain Bloomsbury, Rs 2,304

Guide to Islam doesn't answer some questions

The onslaught of Wahhabism, combined with the Ottomans' own decay because of orthodox clergy, squeezed this cosmopolitan...

24 Nov 2019 8:10 AM IST

Hindu activists climb up the dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which was quickly demolished by end of the day. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Ayodhya verdict: Neighbourhoods of exile

Ayodhya verdict may spur another wave of Muslim ghettoisation.

11 Nov 2019 5:56 AM IST

Till Talaq Do US Part by Ziya Us Salam, Penguin, Rs 399

Many contours of the triple talaq debate

The book traces the origin of triple talaq to the time of Caliph Umar in the 7th century, years after Prophet Muhammad's...

20 Jan 2019 12:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah and senior party leader L.K. Advani attend first parliamentary party meeting after the opening of the Winter Session of Parliament in New Delhi on December 13, 2018.

2019 polls: BJP likely to lose 40 seats in 4 states

Out of 230 Assembly seats in the state, Congress has secured 114, hile BJP managed to maintain its hold on 109 seats.

22 Dec 2018 1:43 AM IST

A view of a mosque along a flyover in Tehran.

Glimpses of Tehran during a visit in testing times

A country deeply entrenched in regional crises like those in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen

17 Dec 2018 6:25 AM IST

Sanctions against Iran have failed to fructify for world powers'

Iran's foreign policy has been to support the cause of the oppressed. Kashmiris are victims.

11 Dec 2018 12:21 AM IST

One of the Indian mystics who celebrated divine love and syncretic devotion was Maulana Hasrat Mohani. In his own words, he was a Sufi momin (Sufi believer), ishtiraaki Muslim (secular Muslim), Aashiq-e-Rasool (lover of the holy Prophet) and at the same time, a Krishna bhakt (devotee of Krishna). (Representational image)

Sufis counter extremism among youths

Syed Ashraf Jilani, a senior member of Spiritual Foundation, said that there is a strong need to revive and spread Sufi...

27 Nov 2018 3:07 AM IST

Harsahay Gurjar, the key accused in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl arrested by the Rajasthan police, is being shown to media in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

Hurt and alienated, Muslims to vote for BJP's defeat

Muslims have decisive presence in 90 districts, 100 Lok Sabha constituencies and 720 Assembly seats of India.

23 April 2018 2:24 AM IST