For god’s sake, stop this my Twinkle and your Asifa nonsense

Some crimes shake the conscience of the nation: Like the one of Twinkle in Aligarh. Or Asifa in Kathua, Jammu.

While defending Rajiv Gandhi, Congress has stirred up a hornet’s nest

It’s raining bricks and only bricks for the Gandhi dynasty as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retaliated with a ferocity once Congress dynasts and the rest of the...

Indian Express begins 2019 with Mrinal Pande’s bigotry

I grew up in Lucknow, aware of a Hindi literary icon Shivani who lived in Gulistan Colony, a pristine part of the city which housed bureaucrats and judges among others. Her...

Rahul Gandhi now leaves Indian Muslims in lurch

If I was an Indian Muslim, I would have a whole lot of questions today and certainly no answers. So far, I believed in the pictures of Rahul Gandhi, skull cap and all, in Iftar...

Sharia Courts in all districts is recipe for another Pakistan

The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has plans to introduce Sharia Courts (Darul-Qaza) in all 640 districts of India.

Irony died a million deaths in Tharoor’s column

Shashi Tharoor’s edit piece in Indian Express on Saturday reminded me of my probation days in journalism with the Times of India in the 80s. My editor would look at my typed...