History will remember that on the former Prime Minister’s watch, the rights of activists and protesters were imperilled using methods that have been scaled up by the Indian State to stifle dissent
13 January,2025 07:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The hounding of intellectuals as mobocracy reigns supreme under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus serves as a stark warning for India on the dangers of religious nationalism
06 January,2025 06:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The architect of the Constitution railing against Hindu Raj while also being conflicted about Dalits adopting Christianity or Islam as this would ‘denationalise’ them exemplifies his life of contradictions
30 December,2024 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
BJP’s One Nation, One Election proposal echoes the deep distrust the second RSS chief had of the federal system, which India’s regional parties do not want to be weakened
23 December,2024 08:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Members of the judiciary face no consequences for egregious misconduct as they are neither exposed to moral pressure mounted by the public nor stand a chance of being impeached
16 December,2024 07:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Since Muslims have been projected as those who cannot be truly Indian and, therefore, loyal to India, the majority community feels it is a national duty to mobilise against them
09 December,2024 08:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
None of the petitions pleading for surveying the mosques should have been entertained by the judiciary, for the Places of Worship Act, 1991, freezes the religious character of sacred places as it existed on August 15, 1947
02 December,2024 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Direct cash transfer has legitimised and mainstreamed the purchasing of votes, but by doing so, governments implicitly confess to their disinterest in bringing about lasting socio-economic changes
25 November,2024 07:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The enduring appeal of a graphic novel on the horrors of life under Israeli occupation among young Indians signifies their rejection of the Zionist narrative and anti-Muslim Hindutva rhetoric
18 November,2024 07:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Both the Republican Party and BJP raise the bogey of the illegal immigrant to tap into voters’ tribalistic fears of being demographically overwhelmed, thus reaping a rich harvest of votes
11 November,2024 07:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz AshrafADVERTISEMENT
