Remembering Meera, daughter of Indian Vice Admiral Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, a role model for millions of women, who had quit the 30-year banking career to work for the poor and bring a change in politics. “Active Indian citizen – Author of ‘ The Big Reverse– How demonetization knocked India out” – That is how […]
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Rethinking and re-imagining Sindh’s past – especially concerning the era starting from Mohenjodaro and ending in Muhammad bin Qasim’s arrival is crucial By Manan Ahmed Asif It is a fact not so easily known, thus rarely acknowledged, that the British colonial project in India at one moment turned into an excavation of India’s pasts. This […]
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US Navy patrolling carries message for all coastal states including India and China, warn experts Islamabad: The US Navy’s navigation operations in India’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is an attempt to assert its dominating role in the Indian Ocean Region and carries a message for the coastal states in the region, especially the major maritime […]
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We have faced the horrors of Election Commission and if we tolerate whatever they have done in Bengal, then in India there will be no democracy – Mamta Banerjee By Nazarul Islam Mamata Banerjee’s passion and conviction were all too visible in her first words to the media, after her magnificent win registered by her […]
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The matter of fact is that the word “Hind” came from ‘Sindh” itself, because Persians cannot pronounce “S” in their native tongue and mispronounce it as “H.” Because of that, “Sindh” became “Hind,” “Sindhu” became “Hindu,” and India itself got its name from “Indus,” the Indus River, and that is Sindhu. Interview with Artist Krupa […]
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The situation now is somewhat similar to what it was nearly four decades ago, and fertile for the re-emergence of a new political formation. Several regions farthest from Delhi still refuse to come under the thrall of the Hindutva party By Nazarul Islam In the election results from four states and a union territory, the […]
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Indians can claim to fight at the borders but, in a strange paradox are allowed to die, in the tens of thousands within their borders. By Nazarul Islam With the debilitating pandemic in full control of life in a number of densely populated states of India, there is no escaping the death and destruction that […]
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The confusion and polarization means more political rallies, more Hindu festivals, less transparency, more lies, more corruption, more division and more fertile political ground for coronavirus. The country is desperately short of essential medical supplies. And although it is the world’s largest producer of vaccines, its immunization program has stalled with less than 10 percent […]
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The Disciple is a Marathi-language drama that revolves around an aspiring Hindustani classical singer Sharad Nerulkar. The film was screened at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in September 2020 and won International Critics Prize and the award for Best Screenplay. By Kabir Altaf Early in The Disciple, we hear a voiceover which states: “If […]
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Today, New Delhi has resembled the New Armageddon, where Ambulance sirens blare through the night – a constant reminder of the unbelievable tragedy unfolding in the city. As people die from want of oxygen, citizens have come together to support one another. They make thousands of calls to find oxygen, lug heavy cylinders around from […]
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