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Lynching of Muslims in India evokes deafening silence
IT was fascinating to see the leaders of the world’s largest and most powerful democracies rub shoulders and do much backslapping, hand-pumping and mutual fawning in Washington this past week.
Gandhi’s killers are national icons now
By Aijaz Zaka Syed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi may have been born a bania — someone from a community whose vocation from time immemorial has remained trade and moneylending in India’s rigid caste pyramid. However, few in a country where one’s birth still ...
Remember the less fortunate this Ramadan
Aijaz Zaka Syed   Something extraordinary happens to Muslim societies around the world during the holy month of Ramadan. It is a surreal experience and only those who have been touched by it would identify with what I am trying to say. Ramadan brings ...
Human shield and holy cow
Aijaz Zaka Syed Sooner or later, this was bound to happen.  Given the way the BJP and its parivar have been despoiling India, saffronizing all national institutions, this was bound to happen. As if tying a Kashmiri artisan to the front of ...
Trump in Middle East
Aijaz Zaka Syed Diplomacy has not been arguably the strongest point of the Middle East’s engagement with the world. This is why persuading President Donald Trump to begin his first foreign visit from Saudi Arabia is nothing short of a diplomatic ...
India heading for one-party rule?
By Aijaz Zaka Syed ALL politics is local, said US politician Tip O’Neil. Under Narendra Modi, nothing is local anymore. Writing for Aljazeera, Prof. Apoorvanand of Delhi University explains how India is permanently in election mode these days and insurrectionary politics is keeping ...
As Hindutva targets Muslims, will others speak up? 
By Aijaz Zaka Syed THE Machiavellian principle of “divide and rule” (or divide and conquer, from Latin dīvide et īmpera) still reigns supreme.  In an interesting analysis in Hindustan Times, Sunita Aron explains how the BJP successfully breached the Muslim vote bank in Uttar Pradesh by luring ...
Echoes of Gaza in Kashmir
By Aijaz Zaka Syed THE scenes of young Kashmiri girls, most of them in school uniforms and hijab, throwing stones at security forces have stunned India and people around the world.  The iconic image of an angry Afshan Ashique, a football ...
Violence against Muslims spikes in India
Aijaz Zaka Syed There’s no stopping the juggernaut called Narendra Modi. After the recent electoral successes, the Prime Minister looks totally unassailable, the lord of all he surveys. Even his worst critics like Aakar Patel and Rajdeep Sardesai have concluded that ...
For a more just world
By Aijaz Zaka Syed The more things change at the United Nations, the more they remain the same. The United States and Russia, the two superpowers, have been taking turns to belittle and disempower the world body that they both helped ...
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