Muslims

Reclaiming the Coast

V Shoba

Open follows the taproot of Hindutva politics in Dakshina Kannada

Close Encounters

Zakia Soman

One man’s burden of his identity

The Class War

Andaleeb Wajid

Being a Muslim student in the playground

3 Storeys Movie Review

Ajit Duara

Though the performances in 3 Storeys are competent, and the absence of melodrama a relief, it is not a film that impacts an audience, either emotionally or intellectually

Beirut of the Mind

Anchal Vohra

An iconic city retrieves its romance from the wreckage of war

The Softer Savarkar

TCA Raghavan

When he believed that Muslims were as good as Hindus in the liberation struggle

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar