Kovind and the naysayers on Bhoomi Pujan: Should we talk of `castes’ amongst Muslims?

Seafarers from my era led interesting lives, in as much as whilst our friends were just about finishing school, we were already with a few global voyages or more in the...

Europe, India and the limits of secularism

Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an Islamic organization, at Kolkata. The volunteers were dressed in a...