Take Your Headscarf Off, Show Us Your Hair and Get Your Education – Hindus to Hijab-Wearing Muslim Girls

From what I know and can remember Muslim girls in school (not all but some of them) have been wearing hijab (or headscarf) for ages now. It was just another piece of clothing that never bothered us, to the point that we never even noticed its existence. I even know of girls and even teachers […]

Coronavirus And Bigotry

How coronavirus thanks to Whatsapp University is helping flame the train of bigotry in people’s minds.

End Of Innocence

The plant that we so diligently watered and cared for has grown into a big banyan; full of flowers and fruits. Own it now. 53 people have lost their lives in the Delhi riots. You have heard this already. But do you see the problem here? Riot? Was it really a riot? Is it a riot […]

Ayodhya Judges Forgot That Justice Isn’t A Please-All-Show

The long-awaited, more than twenty years, Ayodhya Judgement is here. Before we dwell on the same, ever wondered why people go to the courts? Why they spend on lawyers, on their travels to court? After all, all they do is present arguments from each side which they could do before a sarpanch in a village […]

Unwarranted Obedience From Citizens In A Republic Is The Final Nail In Coffin For Democracy

Across the world, democracy is seeing a fast decline. Now one may deny, dismiss or raise unwarranted doubt over this at one’s own risk but it is an observable fact across the globe. “In Turkey and Egypt, Hungary and Poland, the Philippines and Venezuela, we are witnessing pseudo-democracies taking hold. Meanwhile, democracies that once inspired […]

Few Questions On The Ghastly Gangrape of 8-Year-Old Asifa Bano That People Do Not Want To be Discussed

Almost everyone who is talking about Asifa (Don’t fret if you don’t know what happened to her, read on to find out) is speaking as if it was just another case of crime against women. It was not. Many on my timeline were comparing her with Nirbhaya. It is as if they want to put […]

‘Bengal Is Burning’ — The Need To Condemn FIR Against Sudhir Chaudhary & Co Even If The Channel Is Zee News

Freedom of Press to me is paramount. There are no two ways about it. There is no if and but. Government should have no say in what press reports and what it doesn’t. It is job of editor to do so. Government if it finds, the reportage is false, mala fide or one-sided then it […]

My Favorite Thing About America Is The Divorce Rate And I Mean That Sincerely

My favorite thing about America is the divorce rate. & I mean that sincerely. — Arnessa (@Rrrrnessa) September 7, 2016 In my usual morning chore of digging through Twitter, I stumbled upon the above tweet and was stunned at first. I mean, what? Divorce rate? Why would someone be happy about broken marriages, couples getting […]

From publishers asking censorship to those reviewing without reading — Who is afraid of Rana Ayyub’s Gujarat Files?

It is a fact well known that not all drafts gets published and turn into books, and how publishers choose what they will print and what they won’t. Most of the times their decisions are legit and have something to do with literary value of the draft at hand but not all the time. Stories […]

I refuse to buy your orders, I refuse to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai as well!

“Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. It should be real, spontaneous and part of all-round development of the youth,” said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat earlier this month. And as if there was some understanding between the two, Owaisi, the MP from Hyderabad […]