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By Indranil Banerjie Though the Kashmir Valley is often in the world’s focus, geographically it is a relatively tiny place: just about 60 miles by 30 miles. An estimated seven million people

By Aashiq Hussain Itoo Life is all about the dynamics of troughs and crests, twists and turns and ups and downs. A time-tested strategy and blueprint is to widen the territory of

By Dr. Prem Singh The contemporaneity of present day politics in India, as far as both the government and the opposition is concerned, is characterized by an absence of any real difference

By Jeffrey Gettleman His country nearly went to war with a neighbouring enemy six and a half times its size. Militants lurk in religious schools and in the countryside. And with inflation

By Mehmal Sarfraz The first phase of the Indian elections is over. These elections and their results are being viewed with a lot of interest in Pakistan. Earlier this week, the prime

By Abu Eesa Niamatullah One would agree that from the most unfortunate things possible is to be the rightful recipient of some good news – a present maybe, a gift of money,

By Mansoor Alam In determining how the Qur’an establishes criteria for human development, we can begin by exploring verse 1 of Surah Al-Mulk (67:1). “Blessed be He in whose hands is Dominion;

By Rachel Harris Ten years ago, I started researching Islam among the Uighurs. I spent my summers travelling around the Xinjiang region in western China. I took long bus journeys through the

By Shiv Visvanathan Manifestoes are acts of communication. They seek to inspire with rhetoric. When the BharatiyaJanata Party’s manifesto was released, I was not sure if the party was trying to communicate

By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee On April 8, a 68-year-old Muslim man, Shaukat Ali, was attacked by a mob in the Biswanath district of Assam and allegedly forced to consume pork. Ali was