Why, just why, do the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims—those that live in peace in the democratic cultures of India, or Indonesia, or Malaysia, or those in Europe and America—have to say “mea culpa”

Indian democracy breathes again

A wide spectrum of India’s public activists and intellectuals now do understand that something unprecedented is on the agenda

The conflict to be between the tolerant and the intolerant among all religions

There comes a point in the social evolution of the underlings when they kick the ladder they used to climb, and join the class of erstwhile oppressors.

Let us our hopes keep well in place, In the midst of doom and gloom: However cramped our days may seem. There is always some untrampled room

The rich may like top-down tyranny, But India’s countless hoi polloi—They are something else again, And cussedly make their own way

No politics is of any substance that does not teach us to live till we die

Is it so impossible to marry great purpose to a lived ordinariness?

For now, Athens, know that you have struck a historic blow for life-infusing resistance