Browsing Archive August, 2016
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A Critical Appraisal of the Samajwadi Party Government in UP
224 seats in the 403 member house. The Samajwadi Party, through its poster boy Akhilesh Yadav, had swept the 2012 UP Assembly elections. His followers from every district ...
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8.5ScoreSarbjit: An Evocative Representation of a Truly Tragic Story
The story of Sarbjit Singh is among the most tragic in the history of Indo-Pak relations. Allegedly, he was picked up in a drunken state by the Pakistani ...
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7ScoreBudhia Singh – Born to Run: A Tale of Passion
Budhia Singh has been the youngest marathon runner in the country, having run at the age of 4. He ran a number of marathons before the most famous ...
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This is CERTAINLY NOT Sedition! #RamyaControversy
My strongly critical views on the Pakistani establishment can be seen here and here. My view on the ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ controversy stirred by MIM chief Asaduddin ...
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Dear America, Do You Want a President who Openly Condones Sexual Harassment and who Disrespects Your Martyrs?
Coming from India, which is indeed a noisy, pluralistic democracy that often fails to throw up the best of candidates, leaving us with rather sad choices like between ...
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Are Human Rights Activists Speaking Up for Terror Suspects Necessarily Apologists of Terror? No!
BJP MP Satyapal Singh, who, earlier as a cop, had filed complaints against Dr. Zakir Naik during the UPA regime, has been honest enough to acknowledge that there are police ...
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The Problem Generated by Zakir Naik
With a huge global following, Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik promotes a brand of Islam that is regressive and even dangerous. It is a puritanical and evangelist form ...
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Gender 0
I #readwomen and I like it
The #readwomen challenge (where you decide to only read women writers for a set period of time) is not new, Lilit Marcus already gave it a higher profile ...
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Gender 4
The Murder of Qandeel Baloch: How free are we if we hum the same tune but only brazenly?
Over the last few days, my Facebook and Twitter timelines have been practically scorched with posts on the gory murder of Qandeel Baloch. And rightly so, for what ...
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Can a uniform civil code help fight gender discrimination in India? Yes, it can!
After the Supreme Court’s consistent reminders in personal law cases, the Modi Government recently attempted to execute one of the major aspects of its manifestos, the Uniform Civil ...
