None of the petitions pleading for surveying the mosques should have been entertained by the judiciary, for the Places of Worship Act, 1991, freezes the religious character of sacred places as it existed on August 15, 1947
02 December,2024 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Direct cash transfer has legitimised and mainstreamed the purchasing of votes, but by doing so, governments implicitly confess to their disinterest in bringing about lasting socio-economic changes
25 November,2024 07:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The enduring appeal of a graphic novel on the horrors of life under Israeli occupation among young Indians signifies their rejection of the Zionist narrative and anti-Muslim Hindutva rhetoric
18 November,2024 07:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Both the Republican Party and BJP raise the bogey of the illegal immigrant to tap into voters’ tribalistic fears of being demographically overwhelmed, thus reaping a rich harvest of votes
11 November,2024 07:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
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 AshrafADVERTISEMENT
