What Muslims do or don’t do during Ramzan
By Kouser Fathima
And, yes, we do cut our nails and have our bath daily during Ramzan. It’s not restricted to only Fridays!
How long will Kashmiris suffer Indian state violence?
By Arif Khan
The use of pellet guns is among the most contentious issues in Kashmir today. We didn’t witness the use of pellet guns during the Jat agitation in Haryana, the Cauvery agitation in Karnataka, the Patel agitation in Gujarat or any other agitation anywhere else in India for that matter.
The Fading Away of State Control in South Kashmir
By Muneeb Yousuf
There is a belief that the policemen are involved in various atrocities and civilian killings and such activities have made them the centre of this guerilla strategy. Moreover, it is also believed that the militants are in need of arms and the policemen become soft targets for weapon snatching.
President Trump in Saudi Arabia: A sign of Pragmatism and Real Polity
By Fazzur Rahman
The first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia by President Trump has proved that economic, strategic, security, national interest, and real polity are likely to determine the contours of US policies in the region, far away from the religious and civilizational rhetoric of the past.
Poem
By Goirick Brahmachari
We bond a little
Through our unbranded clothes,
Exchanging smiles
As she plays with her hair,
Expecting breeze.
Book Excerpt: From Sameer Khan’s ‘Spinning Top and Other Stories’
By Sameer Khan
Farhan had never been a practicing Muslim. He visited a masjid only to offer namaz for Eid or an occasional Friday namaz. But now he joined Suleiman often at the local masjid for prayers.
Amma, Alzheimer’s, and Medicines
By Nishi Pulugurtha
A person with Alzheimer’s will slowly withdraw from family and society. Bodily functions are lost over a period of time, including the fact that they forget to eat and swallow. The rate of progression of the disease and the degeneration vary from person to person.
Book Review: Torsa Ghosal’s ‘Open Couplets’
By Sourya Chowdhury
Ghosal’s novel uses the quest motif as a catalyst. The main plot revolves around ethnographer Ira Chatterjee embarking on parallel journeys to locate two very different artists. However, it is difficult to sum up a work that relies so heavily on the reader’s participation; the text is ingrained in a postmodern universe where meaning is always contingent and protean.
Book Excerpt: From Chanis Fernando Boisard’s ‘The Ayah and Other Stories’
By Chanis Fernando Boisard
Book Excerpt: From Chanis Fernando Boisard’s ‘The Ayah and Other Stories’.
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in India, the land of Palestinian Friends
By Fazzur Rahman
Palestinian President, Mr. Abbas’s visit to India might be intended to use the deep political and strategic ties between India and Israel when Prime Minster Modi would visit Israel in July.
Lecture: Populist-Authoritarianism in India
By Ajay Gudavarthy
The other part of the success of this new populist regime is its ability to include subjective emotions more upfront than liberal democracies, moving away from liberal democratic conception of a rational self, based on separation of the private and public individual.
Bilkis Bano Case: Why Muslims should be against Minority-ism
By M Wadood Sajid
What makes Bilkis Bano case so important is the fact that among the dozens other cases relating to Gujarat Riots, this is the first one in which the court has not only punished and sentenced the investigating police officers but has also the doctors, who performed autopsy on the dead bodies of the riot victims.
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