opinion - Page 136

By Rajdeep Sardesai A simple photo-op can sometimes reveal the entire political picture. Last month, as Rahul Gandhi hosted an iftaar party, his high table did not include a single opposition party

By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi Allah Almighty has sent the last prophet Muhammad as a mercy to all worlds. The teachings of Islam that the beloved Prophet brought are entirely based on mercy,

By Isobel Ingham-Barrow In September last year, Zaynab Hussein, a Muslim mother from Leicester, was taking her children to school when Paul Moore ran over her with his car. Moore then proceeded

By MANSOOR ALAM Fourteen hundred years ago, when the world was shrouded in darkness, the Quran mentioned that the Universe is expanding – “AND IT IS We who have built the Universe

By Nasim Zehra The next morning, 12 hours after the top military command had briefed him on Op KP, the prime minister summoned key cabinet members to the PM House. Sharif chaired

By Yogi Aggarwal The GST was controversial because of the high and multiple rates imposed on the businesses and the consumers, but the hope was that it would make tax collection easier

By Sushant Singh The immediate provocation for the unofficial release of the army’s video of the surgical strikes of September 2016 to multiple television channels last Wednesday is not known: Pakistan seems

By Aamer Ahmed Khan Any political development that leads to consolidation or perpetuation of hereditary leadership bears a foreboding not dissimilar to that surrounding an omnipresent threat of military intervention. Yet in

By Harsh Mander This is what India has become: One more pitiless lynching. This time of two older men, a petty goat trader and a marginal farmer in a village in Hapur,

By Vikram Zutshi In 2015, a year after Modi was declared the Prime Ministerial candidate for the BJP, Prodyut Bora, the original founder of the party’s controversial ‘IT Cell’ quit the party