Three Poems on Nepal Earthquake
By Neha Basnet
Each of the fake angels survived on the profit
You suffered and no one noticed
Dusk to dawn, you knew them for real
Now you can’t call them for your bail.
The Gazed and the Vulnerable
By Heba Ahmed
So this is what the ‘fun’ element of nationalism does – it instills a rabid hatred, an irresponsible prejudice towards complete strangers – whose virtual ‘identities’ can be compiled into a hate list, circulated on social media to evince a potent mix of voyeurism and witch-hunting.
In defense of Ansar Ahmed Shaikh, the UPSC topper
By Nasima Islam
I must assert that it is because of these so-called upper-class, upper-caste, xenophobic, ignorant and uninformed people of India, there is so much discrimination in our country against the Dalitised subalterns in general and Muslims in particular.
A Conversation with Artist, Max Levi Frieder
By Mary Ann Chacko
A conversation with artist, Max Levi Frieder, who works on community art projects.
Four Poems
By Goirick Brahmachari
I choose to sit by the window of my winds
And let this winter night wash off my sanity.
Naked like truth it dawns onto us.
No cigarettes to warm us up.
No bodies to set us free.
Delhi: This melancholic city
By Ishan Kukreti
Dear followers of Heraclitus, your city, doused in melancholy, is a dead museum of memories, surviving between living and dying, remembering the lonesome Pandavs, the experimenting Tughlaqs, the raids of Taimur, the songs of Sufis, the taste of freedom and the pillage for Gandhi.
Lack of Muslim Political Leadership in India
By Kouser Fathima
Global political changes and Islamphobia have made it easy for Muslims to be targeted and victimised. In India, the weakening of secular parties, and the consequent rise of the BJP, has put additional burden on Muslims. In this context, Indian Muslims need a strong leader like Kanshi Ram, who worked with Dalits to make them a strong political force.
A Conversation with Margi Gibb on her Book, ‘Kissed By A Deer: A Tibetan Odyssey’
By Karen McCrea
Writing Kissed By A Deer didn’t even start out as an intention. Rather, Gibb added, “I was just writing stories, and I kept writing and writing one of them until it was clear it was going to be book length.”
Three Poems
By Omair Bhat
I will love you then under
muzzles of assault rifles of
troops, slithering
out from sandbag bunkers into
silence of our city
Short Story: Maria Josh
By Vismay Kamate
The love of my life, who followed Islam, who fasted in the month of Ramzan, who was a Muslim and, by and large, a human being, died in the riots, and my father, who was part of these riots, demolished my faith in his paternity forever.
An Open letter to S. J. M. Gillani, IGP, Kashmir
By Ameen Hussain Rather
We all know that this video was a cock-and-bull story recorded by your department to confuse the people, because your police are poorly trained in academies about how to investigate a case. They seem to receive their training by the exposure they get from watching Crime Petrol and Savdhaan India (both Indian television shows).
The unabated march of religious intolerance in India
By Zaboor Ahmad
The soft-Hindutva project was launched with the serialization of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata on the national media, Doordarshan. It was part of the same growing drama executed from top at the cost of tax payer’s money.
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