The recent case of plagiarism is only symptomatic of the truly serious issue: the utterly cynical and...
Some of the most popular Urdu Columnists in Pakistan seem to function in a world of their own creation—it...
Dr. Gopi Chand Narang, Professor Emeritus, Delhi University, former President of the Sahitya Akademi and the...
The Nizam-e-Adl [Justice] Regulation was signed on April 15, formally enforcing what some call sharia laws in...
Who was perpetrating 'terror' in the Occupied Territories twenty years ago -- when there was no PLO there,...
It's 20 years since the fatwa on Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. We mark the occasion by republishing...
Lashkar's jihad is claimed to be almost exclusively on behalf of Kashmiri mothers and daughters. For they...
'I read the email, purportedly from 'Indian Mujahideen', with increasing dread and disgust. Dread for what it...
America's domestic politics has turned into 'identity' politics, at least for those who consider themselves...
For the people who rule the roost in Washington, history begins the day they wish to choose. But the least we...
An excellent and truly comprehensive book constructed around the rare photographs of Lucknow in the...
It is not even worth the price of the paper it is printed on. That such a book could be compiled by a...
Last week, our jury chose Jnanpith winner, 'Urdu's Marquez', Qurratulain Hyder as one of the 60 heroes of...
The first attack on Taslima Nasrin ended when the police arrived at the Press Club and rescued her, but the...
How much do we know about Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar (this year, January 20 - February...
A Sentimental Essay in Three Scenes—1906: All India Muslim League formed; 1945-46: elections that settled...
A heated discussion presently rages in the American media. The United States faces a 'defeat' in Iraq,...
Yes, so the drawing and publishing of the 12 cartoons was racism and Islamophobia posturing as hypocritical...
The AIMPLB is not a representative body; nor is it a democratic body. It created itself, and its members have...
The word 'Hijab' is relatively new for me. It was not a part of my vocabulary as I was growing up. I learned...