Tuesday, Aug 09, 2022
Feb 21, 2010 Salman Rushdie 'It is people like Gita Sahgal who are the true voices of the human rights movement; Amnesty and Begg have revealed, by their statements and actions, that they deserve our contempt'
Jan 08, 2010 Arshad Alam The failed attempt on the life of the Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, once again raises issues of intellectual dissent and the nature of blasphemy in Islam.
It's 20 years since the fatwa on Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. We mark the occasion by republishing what Professor C.M. Naim present
Jan 07, 2009 Kenan Malik Rushdie's critics lost the battle - The Satanic Verses continues to be published. But they won the war. The argument at the heart of the anti-Rushdie case - that it is morally unacceptable to cause offence to other cultures - is now widely acc
'Arundhati Roy wrote: You have a very simple choice: Justice or civil war... I want to really take issue with this. I do not believe that the project of the terrorists has anything to do with justice.'
There can be two views about Britain's decision to honour Salman Rushdie with knighthood. Whatever the merits or demerits of Britain's decision, there cannot be two views about the response to it by Pakistan's clerics. It was shameful.
Way back in September 2006, we had asked if the Rushdie-Padma Lakshmi honeymoon was finally over. It is now official that it is.
Recent jihadi anger against the British does not seem to be Iraq-related. They are more Afghanistan and Salman Rushdie related. The decision to award the Knighthood to Rushdie at this juncture does not speak well of the sensitivity in British officia
What does the conferral of an archaic honour on Salman Rushdie--a visionary and complex writer lamentably transformed into a weak-voiced celebrity--and the ensuing outcry tell us about our times?
A geriatric old monarch of an erstwhile imperial power bestows the knighthood on Sri Salman Rushdie only to have him become the subject of renewed death threats, murderous bounties, fatwas, protests and much else besides. Were the Brits being clueles
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
For one, Ayatollah Khomeini would probably never have seen a televised protest which prompted him to issue that infamous fatwa proscribing a book he had himself never read....
When Rushdie married his third wife, co-author of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, Elizabeth West, I wore all black for an entire week. And now he was here once again.
... wowed the audience with his dramatic reading, signing books and answering questions freely, personally, and iconoclastically.
The world should listen to the female voices allied with the "secularist-humanist principles" Rushdie seems to think don't exist in the Islamic world.
Neodeconstructivist rationalism in the works of Rushdie
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/ Shahbaz Khan
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Jan 15, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Jan 08, 2022 Rakhi Bose 
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
Jan 01, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.
Dec 28, 2021 Tanvir Aeijaz 
