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May 29, 2018 The India Observer #Ghettos, #Gujarat, #localities, #Maharashtra, #Muslims, #urbanspaces

The segregated city

Ghettoisation and Disturbed Areas Act are dividing urban spaces in Gujarat, pushing Muslims to the edge. In the current debates

Opinion World

May 28, 2018 Shirin Abbas #IrelandAbortionLaw, #IrishAbortionReferendum, #LeoVaradkar, #SavitaHalappanavar

My body, My choice—finally as it should be!

Ireland votes for change and women’s rights on their bodies. It took the sad death of an Indian origin mother

India Opinion

May 27, 2018 Frank Islam #AligarhMuslimUniversity, #Education, #muslimwomen, #progress, educationforall

Muslim women in India can become change agents through education

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called for empowerment and education of Muslim women. One would have expected this message to

India Opinion

May 25, 2018 Ram Nath Kovind #futuregenerations, #Indiaat100, #Indiaat75, #Mahatma@150, #Mashobra, #Nature, #PresidentofIndia

Mashobra musings: President Ram Nath Kovind on mutualism and the message of nature

What will India be like at 100 — in 2047? In Mahatma’s bicentenary in 2069? We don’t know. But our

India Opinion

May 23, 2018 Gopalkrishna Devdas Gandhi #amitshah, #BJP, #Chiefminister, #Congress, #HDK, #Karnatakaelections, #RahulGandhi, #SupremeCourt, #Yeddyurappa, HDKumaraswamy

Oppostion may well thank Karnataka Governor for impressing on them the need for pre-poll unity

Vajubhai Vala was a name few outside Gujarat knew of. That is, until last week. Karnataka knew of him, of

India Opinion

May 21, 2018 Javed Usmani #BJP, #Congress, #Karnatakaelections, #Karnatakapolls, #RahulGandhi, #Yeddyurappa, HDKumaraswamy

The consequences of JDS-Cong government on 2019 elections

The final outcome in Karnataka, as it emerged after many twists and turns, is the worst possible for the BJP,

India Opinion

May 18, 2018 Roy Daniels #Karnatakaelections, #Karnatakapolls, #SupremeCourt, #Yeddyurappa

The game of political chess in Karnataka!

The governor has decided to swear in Yeddyurappa. But even that is being denied, and not announced. What do the

Opinion

May 18, 2018 Vaishna Roy

Waiter! There’s a fly in my holy water

Of gods and men. And why it is better that they stay in their own worlds Two recent episodes demonstrated

Opinion

April 27, 2018 Sandeep Pandey #B.R Ambedkar, #Bhim Army Activists, #BJP, #Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, #Dalit Mitra, #Dalits, Yogi Adityanath

Friend or Enemy of Dalits?

Photo: Forwardpress Editor’s Note: Not just in today’s India but for centuries, is being Dalit, determined by the color of skin,

India Opinion

April 25, 2018 Ashfaq Khan #crimeagainstwomen, #Rape

The Rape in India….tracing its Roots !!

Rape has, of late, become an acute disease in the Indian society. Prima facie, this is a problem arising out

India Opinion

April 21, 2018 Ram Chandra Guha #BJP, #Congress, #NarendraModi, #RajivGandhi

Why 2018 feels like 1988

From 400-plus seats in 1984, Rajiv’s Congress fell to a mere 197 five years later. No one can predict how

India Opinion

April 20, 2018 Shirin Abbas #Gujaratriots, #NarodaPatiya

Wounds that never heal, pain that doesn’t die…

It was the first week of March 2002. I was working as a soft journalist—a term people often use for

India Opinion

April 19, 2018 Sunil Sethi #amitshah, #BJP, #PMModi

Ahankar has been many a leader’s undoing

The word ‘hubris’ in the Oxford English Dictionary is summed up simply as ‘excessive pride’. It is the single biggest

India Opinion

April 17, 2018 Tazeen Husain #crimeagainstwomen, #Girlchild, #KATHUARAPECASE, #Unnaorapecase

An open letter to everyone who wants to know where I was

Those that know me know that I’m rarely serious, that I’m constantly laughing, being sarcastic and droll and sharing funny

Opinion World

April 8, 2018 Anubhav Pradhan #AmericanDream, #Immigrants, #Immigration, #Trump

AMERICAN DREAM IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

ANUBHAV PRADHAN feels that the US is no longer what it used to be, that the civilisational goals of progress

India Opinion

March 18, 2018 Shashi Tharoor #Modigovt., #RahulGandhi

Congress Should Ask Every Indian Voter Just One Simple Question

We can turn the tables on the BJP by making them accountable for all the economic failures on their watch

News Opinion World

March 5, 2018 The India Observer #Hijab, #Kimberly Joyce, #Muslim Women, #New York City, #Tahane A.Aboushi, #TIO

$180K awarded for women forced to remove hijabs in police custody

Three Muslim women have each reached a $60,000 settlement with New York City after they were forced to remove their

Opinion

February 11, 2018 Roy Daniels

What happened?? M J Akbar used to be a good writer.

MJ Akbar must be plagued by orders to link violence and terrorism with Muslims more often, by the chief architect

India Opinion

February 9, 2018 Ram Chandra Guha #Gandhiji, #MahatmaGandhi, #Nehru, #Patel, #RahulGandhi, India

Why Nehru vs Patel?

PM Narendra Modi, Sumitra Mahajan and Congress president Rahul Gandhi during the ceremony for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on the occasion

India Opinion

January 26, 2018 Frank Islam #IndianAmericans, #RepublicDay2018, India

Republic Day 2018 : India can be a standard-setter for democracy worldwide

By Frank F. Islam, This is written from my adopted homeland of the United States of America to celebrate Republic

Opinion

January 26, 2018 Inam Abidi Amrohvi #gangajamuna, #IndianMuslims

Open letter to Mr Modi, sincerely from an Indian who happens to be Muslim

Dear Mr Prime Minister, Namaste, Aadaab! The wise should work without attachment (Nishkaam Karma), for the welfare of the society

India Opinion World

January 21, 2018 The India Observer #NetanyahuinIndia, #Palestine

Netanyahu in India: What was swept under the carpet

By Vijay Parshad If you believed that the Indian people universally welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to India, then you were

Opinion

January 4, 2018 Roy Daniels #IndianMuslims, #tripletalaq

Pitfalls of the Triple Talaq Bill

What if a Muslim woman goes to a police station, and says, my husband gave me a triple talaq. Will

Opinion

December 16, 2017 Shams Ahmad

Child Abuse

Child abuse is a complex phenomenon with multiple causes. No single factor can be identified as to why some adults behave

Culture India lifestyle Opinion

November 26, 2017 Roy Daniels bikram, Bikram's Yoga College of India, lawsuit, Miki Jaffa-Bodden, sex, sexual harassment, yoga

Did Yoga Guru, Bikram Choudhury believed, SEX comes free ?

The Yoga Guru filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The studio listed more than $16 million owed in legal judgments,