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K Babar reviews Indian-American scholar C M Naim’s new collection of essays

The BJP has again shown its deep antipathy towards Muslims. It hasn’t fielded a single Muslim candidate in Uttar Pradesh. Worse, it has given tickets to three men accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots. Modi’s candidature from Varanasi is also meant to signify his claim to a “pan-Hindu” identity, from Somnath to Kashi.

Reviewing in the London Review of Books Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control, a book about Cold War nuclear weaponry accidents, noted Harvard sociologist of science Steven Shapin concluded that when it comes to nuclear weapons, "the rational attitude sometimes looks like irrational anxiety."[1]

review of Manoj Mitta’s recently released, hard-hitting book on SIT’s ’fiction of fact-finding’ in the Zakia Jafri petition

The Express Tribune, April 7, 2014
by Sabina Khan
Within a decade of the nation’s inception, the 1956 Constitution declared Pakistan an Islamic Republic. It also deemed Islam the official religion of the country. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the patron of the 1973 Constitution, took it a step further and declared Islam the state religion. An amendment was also added to the Constitution a year later which proclaimed Ahmadis non-Muslims. Bhutto’s government went on to make Islamiat compulsory in (…)