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There will be a “protest” against Hindi imposition if the Centre presses forward with its proposal to make Hindi compulsory till Class 10 in Assam, warned All Assam Students’ Union president Dipanka Kumar Nath.He was reacting to statements made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who had presided over ...

“Mea gov kalas khabar kyah.” Something happened to my head. These were the last words 19-year-old Rafia Nazir said to her mother on March 6. Moments earlier, a grenade had ripped through a crowded market in Srinagar’s Amira Kadal. Nazir had been shopping there with her mother, sister and ...

Over the last few years, debates about the complexity of gender relations within Islamic societies have generated a range of arguments about the complex relationship Muslim women have with the hijab. The headscarf, like any sartorial marking, acquires new meanings as political and social contexts change, even though it ...

For nearly a week, India’s eastern neighbour Bangladesh has been rocked by communal violence targeting its Hindu minority as they celebrated the festival of Durga Puja. Mob violence started after rumours spread through social media that a copy of the Quran had been desecrated at a puja pandal .On ...

For more than 60 years, we shied away from discussions about Partition. The memories of blood and gore overshadowed everything else, and it was, unsurprisingly, intolerable to confront them.In August 2011, I made my first Facebook post musing about the difficult time my grandparents must have faced as the ...

The Delhi government has earmarked Rs 84 crore to install the Indian flag in 500 locations across the city. This move was announced under the Aam Aadmi Party-led state government’s “Deshbhakti budget” in March for the year 2021 to 2022. The budget includes various elements of “deshbhakti” or nationalism ...

On April 8, Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launched the “Students’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement through Quality Education” plan as the first step toward materialising the National Education Policy 2020. The plan “links recommendations of the National Education Policy with 297 tasks along with responsible agencies, timelines and 304 ...

What does Europe have against halal? In the Boston Review, John R Bowen explains how food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.Are plants animals like any other? In Books and Ideas, Enrique Utria explores the ideas of the philosopher Florence Burgat.In Fifty-Two, Mridula Chari asks why Indians are ...

The thunder has gone with the change in narrative. It is no more Pakistan’s military leadership that is the main nemesis. There is no more talk of storming the citadel. It is back to normal politics with an eye on the next elections. With the return of the uncle, ...

Afghanistan has recently witnessed a significant upsurge in security incidents. Indeed, experts have been projecting “increased violence” as one of the most probable scenarios post-United States troops’ withdrawal. Security strategists in Pakistan have been trying to prevent the impact of the increasing insecurity in this country’s neighbourhood, including through ...