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 AshrafThe 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 AshrafVeteran 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 AshrafFrom 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 AshrafAAP’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 AshrafThe 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 AshrafDelhiites 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 AshrafHistory 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 AshrafThe 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 AshrafThe 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 AshrafADVERTISEMENT