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Ajaz Ashraf

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Inter-faith couples as rebels

Inter-faith couples as rebels

By continuing to stay together against all odds, some men and women are preventing militant groups and State functionaries sympathetic to their cause from shaping India in their imagination

10 March,2025 08:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
New reasons to hate America

New reasons to hate America

The televised bullying of the Ukrainian president, hostility towards allies and Donald Trump’s video of Gaza makeover show the United States under him is becoming uglier, and scarier, than before

03 March,2025 06:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Shourie’s takedown of Savarkar

Shourie’s takedown of Savarkar

Veteran journalist’s analysis of right-wing icon’s writings and speeches establishes the primacy of hate in his worldview, making a strong case for the need to save Hinduism from Hindutva

24 February,2025 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The Hitler in Donald Trump

The Hitler in Donald Trump

From seeking to upend the global order to espousing the belief that might is right, to expressing expansionist aspirations and racist rhetoric, the US president’s actions echo that of the fascist dictator

17 February,2025 06:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Delhi rewards authoritarianism

Delhi rewards authoritarianism

AAP’s election defeat highlights the indifference of middle-class voters towards the Centre’s bids to snatch powers belonging to a state or Union territory as long as their pecuniary interests are protected

10 February,2025 06:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
India as bad as Trump on immigrants

India as bad as Trump on immigrants

The exaggerated numbers of illegal Bangladeshi nationals bandied about by our politicians have been weaponised against Indian Bengali Muslims. This rhetoric is no less shrill than the US president’s

03 February,2025 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Delhi must save democracy

Delhi must save democracy

Delhiites will have to decide whether a party that has been accused of subverting the popular will through the appropriation of administrative services and other means deserves their vote

20 January,2025 06:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Horror stories of the MMS era

Horror stories of the MMS era

History will remember that on the former Prime Minister’s watch, the rights of activists and protesters were imperilled using methods that have been scaled up by the Indian State to stifle dissent

13 January,2025 07:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Cry for Bangladeshi teachers

Cry for Bangladeshi teachers

The hounding of intellectuals as mobocracy reigns supreme under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus serves as a stark warning for India on the dangers of religious nationalism

06 January,2025 06:07 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Ambedkar’s pact with a Hindutvadi

Ambedkar’s pact with a Hindutvadi

The architect of the Constitution railing against Hindu Raj while also being conflicted about Dalits adopting Christianity or Islam as this would ‘denationalise’ them exemplifies his life of contradictions

30 December,2024 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf

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