The Aam Aadmi Party has thrown a spoke in the wheels of the INDIA front and potentially queered the pitch for the Congress in its traditional stronghold by announcing a nominee for the South Goa Lok Sabha seat. “I really do not know why AAP has taken the premature step of declaring their candidate for a seat that already has …
The two Cardinals in Kerala are jubilant, the remainder of the Catholics underwhelmed, the denominational and independent churches phlegmatic, a section of the Muslims apprehensive, and civil society a little annoyed. The hug that Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi gave Pope Francis in the Vatican this October while inviting the Roman pontiff for a long delayed visit to India has …
For the past 20 years, Muslims in the US have been systematically racialised and their civil liberties curbed. Whether it was the Bush administration’s special registration through the National Security Entry-Exit System or the Obama administration’s Countering Violent Extremism programme, both Republican and Democratic administrations have sent the same message to the American people: Muslims are a domestic security threat. …
The Kerala High Court recently dismissed the petition seeking a declaration to cancel the reservation and financial aid provided to Muslims, Latin Catholics, and other Scheduled Castes. As such, the petitioner had prayed for a direction to declare that Muslims, Latin Catholics, Christian Nadars and Scheduled Castes converted to any denomination in Christianity are not entitled to be treated as …
