Dubai: When Palestinian artist Ashraf Fayadh was tried last year on blasphemy-related charges, the Saudi judges overseeing the case rejected the prosecution’s request for a death sentence for apostasy. Instead, he was sentenced to 800 lashes and four years in… Continue Reading →
AAKAR PATEL In December 1988, I was at MS University in Baroda when Arun Shourie arrived to praise the Hindutva leadership. He was then a Ram Janmabhoomi enthusiast and made a speech to a packed auditorium stressing how reason able… Continue Reading →
Prabir Purkayastha The RSS and its camp followers have a strange relationship to imagination. They take the imagination of the mythology, and present it as matter of fact history. When it comes to the scientific imagination – how to create… Continue Reading →
RSS activists have been chargesheeted in at least 13 cases of terror acts in which RDX has been used, the ex-officer said. RSS activists have been chargesheeted in at least 13 cases of terror acts in which RDX has been… Continue Reading →
Can you even imagine the fear that must have passed through Kiran Rao‘s mind, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf. A few years ago I met a Pakistani journalist at a promotional event for a Shahid Kapoor film in Mumbai. She was starry-eyed… Continue Reading →
It’s not often that bathroom selfies go viral. But last week, a picture of a man posing with a Koran and wearing a suicide vest went viral after some social media users claimed it was taken by one of the Islamic… Continue Reading →
IS ‘SEDITION’ THE FAVOURED WEAPON OF INTOLERANCE? THE CITIZEN BUREAU Thursday, November 26, 2015 A cartoon after Aseem Trivedi’s arrest on sedition charges NEW DELHI: An old 1870 law that a democratic state should have struck down seems to have become the… Continue Reading →
After successfully holding a parallel film festival outside IFFI venue as a part of their creative protest, the Students Association of FTII is now holding another creative programme tomorrow – “Celebrating Dissent”. GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 26 NOVEMBER 2015 21:51… Continue Reading →
President Pranab Mukherjee expressed agreement with a three-member delegation that met him on Wednesday that the recent spate of return of state honours by writers, artistes and scientists is a legitimate form of protest, and that it is spontaneous…. Continue Reading →
To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out, it saddens me to say you are only proving my point, Aamir Khan said. To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out,… Continue Reading →
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