"Kitna hai baddnaseeb Zaffar daffn kei liye, Do gazz zameen bhi na milie kooye yaar mein." (Bahadur Shah Zaffar, the last…
I History now and again offers moments of hope that seem small and fleeting but, placed in larger contexts and taken at…
I The Victorian police chief, Simon Overland, has finally found the answer to the attacks that Indians have been subjected to…
Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor. He is married to a Hindu girl, and like most actors,…
I Long years ago, at the conclusion of my doctoral work in America, pressure was put on me to stay and…
Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed…
"Genius: a person who has a strong influence upon one for good or ill." (Advanced Oxford Dictionary) I All of…
Ki merE qatL kE ba’d us NE jafA sE taobA, hAE! Us zUd paSEmAn kA paSEmAn hoNA (Mirza Ghalib). (She swore…
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one…
On December 6,1992, hordes of right-wing Hindutva extremists (called karsevaks) took the town of Ayodhya hostage with the full and willing connivance…
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