South Asia Citizens Web

Professor Irfan Habib deserves support for his stand. The ghetto mentality of certain sections of Muslim intelligentsia is harmful both for Indian Muslims and for the political climate in the country as a whole. The response to his remarks by those who disagree with him is evidence of the negative character of this ghetto mentality. Personal attacks are being made and he is being accused

A public discussion organized by the Policy and Planning Group at India Habitat Center in New Delhi on ‘what is wrong and what is right with Pakistan’. The occasion of the discussion was the release of Babar Ayaz’s book ‘ WHAT IS WRONG WITH PAKISTAN ’ with participation of the author Babar Ayaz, a noted Pakistani journalist and writer, Javed Jabbar, a former Pakistan senator, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Rajya Sabha MP, a well known thinker and the author of Pakistan Papers, and Swapan Das Gupta, journalist.

A conversation with Tina Rosenberg and Susan Neiman to mark the 50th anniversary of Arendt’s still-controversial landmark in human rights reportage

Malala’s enemies are equally likely to be Islamists or America-obsessed leftists and post-modernists. These days it is so hard to tell them apart.

To secular Indians, who hold that religion belongs to the private and personal space, two recent national events of three state agencies should be a matter of concern. The first one was the act of ISRO Chairman Dr K. Radhakrishnan performing pooja with the replica of the Mars Orbiter Mission at the Lord Venkateshwara Temple in Tirupati a day before the launch of the spacecraft from Sriharikota. The second one was the digging for gold by the Archaeological Department with support from the Geological Survey of India on the basis of a dream of a holy man.