To spawn fear among Adivasis, the party has been busy falsely projecting disputes involving Muslims as evidence of Bangladeshi presence, and belligerence, in poll-bound Jharkhand
04 November,2024 07:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Forty years after Punjab was gripped by militancy, the idea of Khalistan still haunts the State and the Hindu votebank the Congress cynically created then has been hijacked by the BJP
28 October,2024 11:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The Pawars, Thackerays and Sorens, whose parties have undergone the process of fission, will have to demonstrate they still enjoy the loyalty of ethnic groups on whose support their power grew
21 October,2024 08:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The grand old party’s legitimacy will be threatened unless it apologises for eroding faith in the electronic voting system or goes to the public to quell their doubts about it once and for all
14 October,2024 10:35 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
While it would seem to an outsider that normalcy has returned to the Valley, its silent denizens are tormented by recollections of repression and election manipulation through the decades
07 October,2024 04:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Unions that dare to transcend community boundaries, a relatively more common phenomenon nowadays compared to a century ago, are at risk of being outright criminalised for the first time
30 September,2024 04:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Animosity between adivasis and security forces in the militarised Bastar district is escalating as the former are being gunned down in search operations while security camps mushroom in forests
23 September,2024 06:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Tensions between the BJP and RSS leaderships symbolise the latter’s attempts to establish supremacy over a democratically elected government, a no-no in any democracy
16 September,2024 06:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Changes made to electoral architecture and map of the poll-bound Union Territory could make long-held dream of Hindutva a reality, but for Kashmiri Muslim votes consolidating behind one formation
09 September,2024 06:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
If the head of state were to condemn alleged improprieties in states ruled by her former party, her recent article decrying Kolkata rape and murder case would not come across as partisan
02 September,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz AshrafADVERTISEMENT
