Cross Connections

Sunil on his way to Abdullah Pakistani society has one more reason to get agitated. A Hindu boy has converted to Islam in front of a liv...

How can you ‘unhate’? Is it like undress or undo? Benetton is known for its use of stereotypes to display its supposed egalitarian stance....

‘Midnight drama’, ‘Midnight drama’ kept flashing on the screen. Since I had not kept up with the news at midnight, I had no clue. Why do the...

Who’d have thought that the government move against deodorant ads would get a saffron person to state: “I guess these guidelines do not ap...

The maulvi says TV is haram. The sadhu says gambling is immoral. Baba Ramdev and Maulana Madani Under the skin they are the same, so ...

I find the phrase “diplomatic offensive” rather amusing. So, one such offensive took place yesterday when Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali K...

Last night we got to see Pakistan’s best and worst on TV. There was ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali on the grand finale of the music show Sa Re Ga...

It is lecture time. “The interest of ordinary Muslims in new India lies in embracing modernity,” says Minhaz Merchant. The headline of the e...

Not a huge fan of a ‘balanced picture’ nor of teetering on the side of achingly forced ‘logic’, quite by default I have ended up rubbing the...

Ram Jethmalani certainly deserves the Rajya Sabha seat. The BJP is happy to acquiesce, at least one section that counts. He is also making t...

Subjugating the Muslim Woman by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, May 12 What is worse – the Dar-ul Uloom Deoband’s decree that a woman’s earn...

I do occasionally put up feedback received and my replies, if any, here. Many of them are those that disagree. This is not to say there have...

My article on ‘The Farce of Fatwas’ below did not mention one quote by P. Chidambaram because the subject would have got diverted. But here ...