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open letter to Election Commission to Demand to Restrain Bhartiya Janta Party targeting the Muslim community in Jamia and Batla House area

Spiked review of books, November 2008
Twenty years on: internalising the fatwa
Kenan Malik, author of the forthcoming From Fatwa to Jihad, discusses the multiculturalism, political conflict and liberal cowardice that defined the Rushdie Affair and its legacy.
When The Satanic Verses was published in September 1988, it had been expected to set the world alight, though not quite in the way that it did. Salman Rushdie was then perhaps the most celebrated British novelist of his (…)

Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan extends beyond simply a modernist urge to secure economic and political resources

Economic and Political Weekly, 8 November 2008
The brutal suppression of the peaceful mass protests that swept across Kashmir in August has restored New Delhi’s "control" of the Valley. The centre may have won this battle, but it has lost the war and if it was not apparent before it should be obvious now that the people of Kashmir no longer have faith in the constitutional processes. The allocation of land for the Amarnath yatra controversy that triggered an explosion first in Kashmir and (…)