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The ouster of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, first Muslim Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and my maternal grandfather, on August 9, 1953, at the behest of the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his subsequent arrest, was an event that alienated the Kashmiri masses and cast his next of kin as personae non grata.

Dancer and activist Chandralekha talks to Sunil Sethi about dispensing with convention in both her art and her life, her roots as an exponent of traditional Bharatnatyam, her association with poet Harindranath Chattopadhyay, and being a cultural icon.

The lifestyle of Baghdadi Jews under the Ottoman rulers was much like that of the Jews of Calcutta, discovers Jael Silliman

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function

Letter from Maharashtra Adhashtradha Nirmulan Samitee (Maharashtra anti Superstition Committee) on 20 July 2016