Opinion

What is holding Indian Muslim community back

The opportunist intellectuals within the Indian Muslim community are holding them back

Like a Christmas star, inclusive religiosity glows in Kerala

Statue of Mary garlanded with a rosary at one end of a series of Hindu idols and deities’ pictures, Christian families singing Carols in Hindi, analyst David Devadas writes about Kerala's inclusive religiosity

Monotheism’s fear of educated women

Monotheistic cultures can’t handle educated women or literate women who eventually start thinking independently and making their own decisions, living lives on their own terms.

Geopolitics of Indian partition – Part 2

By 1945, England realised that their time for military projection around the world was over. They had no choice other than to leave their resource-dead colonies behind. They did not have the financial bandwidth to sustain that big an overseas periphery, especially when the periphery had been reduced to a consumer depot. And a reluctant […]

Geopolitics of Indian partition – Part I

The Partition remains one of the most examined, criticised, and debated incidents in our history – a fair probability of an essay or two exists.