IN a recent address, Chaudhry Nisar hit out at political opponents by classifying them as ‘secular’ and equating the term with ‘non-believing’. Clearly, the interior minister needs tuition in history and political philosophy.
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Pakistan: The secular myth
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Photo of 1911 Banner of British Indian Suffragettes and 1913 photo of Sophia Duleep Singh
28 May 2017In England there were women of colour like Indian princess Sophia Duleep Singh who worked alongside better known white suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst in the struggle for women’s right to vote in Britain for rights of women in India
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On the Passing of Jawaharlal Nehru reports by Granville S. Austin, Victor Anant and the front covers of The Times of India and The Economist
27 May 2017PDF version of the report from Delhi the well known scholar Granville Austin, report by Victor Anant for The Guardian, Front covers of The Times of India and The Economist
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India: ’Naxalbari’ - Fifty years later
by , 26 May 2017May 25, will commemorate 50 years of the Maoist uprising of Naxalbari in West Bengal. In March, 1967, a decision was taken in Naxalbari to carry out an armed rebellion for the rights of peasants and workers. This isolated revolt led to a movement that has lasted half a century.
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Bangladesh: More is at stake than a statue | Tanim Ahmed
26 May 2017why one should not relent to communal pressures, no matter how insignificant they might seem
