Hijab Row: Politics Of Communal Polarisation

Some important simple truths about the issue may be more helpful than high sounding debates, asserts Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE: Students wearing hijab sit outside their school after the school......

'Nehru was eclectic, and brilliant'

Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently.We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of......

Caught between worship and blame

200 years on, the legacy of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan -- the man behind the Aligarh Muslim University -- hangs between two extremes.Mohammad Sajjad brings much needed perspective to the debate. Sir Syed......

'Faiz was devastated by the aftermath of Partition'

'The original dream of people like Faiz was that Pakistan would be something different from the old India: Progressive, forward looking, democratic (if not socialist), tolerant, diverse and......