Planning in Mumbai has Come to Mean Only Real Estate Schemes | Hussain Indorewala
Every year, parts of Mumbai’s streets and tracks get flooded after the rains, but this year, the floods happened in the southern parts of the city. South Mumbai is generally considered immune to this ...
26 Jun 202545min
India’s Reaction to Turkey Understandable, But We Should Not Give Up on Diplomacy | Talmiz Ahmad
Veteran Indian diplomat Talmiz Ahmad, who is an authority on the Middle East, says Turkey has been bringing up Kashmir for a long time but relations were slowly warming up. “But it helped Pakistan d...
23 Mai 202544min
New Canadian PM Carney a Technocrat, Will Want to Increase Trade With India | Daniel Lak
With the election of a new prime minister in Canada, there are hopes that relations between India and Canada will improve. Under Justin Trudeau, the previous one, ties had plummeted after he made alle...
9 Mai 202552min
Beneath the Modi Government’s Push for Tourism in Kashmir Was the Disempowering of Kashmiris | Anuradha Bhasin
The killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam on April 23 came as a ‘shock’, because never before had terrorists targeted tourists, says Anuradha Bhasin, an astute observer of events in the Union Territory. ...
2 Mai 202542min
A 'Concentrated Attack' on the CJI Because of His Questions on Waqf Bill | Sanjay Hegde
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar went “much beyond his Constitutional Role as the Presiding Officer of the Rajya Sabha” when he spoke against the Supreme Court. “His language was intemperate,” says Supr...
25 Apr 202534min
Hindutva Hate Music (H-Pop) Is Now All Around Us | Kunal Purohit
Journalist and author Kunal Purohit began monitoring Hindutva WhatsApp groups several years ago and saw how they disseminated propaganda. “The things people were then scared to speak openly are now al...
18 Apr 202548min
Waqf Amendment is Seen as a Continuation of the Disenfranchisement of the Muslim Community | Shadan Farasat
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill that has now come into force will effectively take control of any Waqf (Charity) property from the Muslim community wherever there is a dispute. “For example, Sambal mosque ...
12 Apr 202535min
Indian Govt Cancelled My OCI Twice, Courts Restored it Both Times | Ashok Swain
Academic and commentator Dr Ashok Swain of Uppsala University in Sweden is in the unique position of having his Overseas Citizen of India status cancelled twice by the Indian government. The governmen...
4 Apr 202551min
