Kangana and Vir Das have every right to their opinions

By sacrificing an important component of the right to free speech, we have strengthened the hands of the fundamentalists, the bigots and the publicity-seeking goondas. And of the hate-filled......

'Powerful people in Pakistan don't like me'

'I criticise the interference of the army in politics.''But the people know I am not anti-Pakistan.''Public support is my biggest strength.' IMAGE: Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. Photograph: Kind......

The mystery death of Pakistan's 'holy warrior'

Khadim Hussain Rizvi is now gone.But the mass appeal of fundamentalism among Pakistan's burgeoning, young, illiterate, unemployed and angry population isn't, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Khadim......

'Nehru didn't impose secularism'

'His secularism merely declared the equality of all religions in India under fundamental rights.'   It took more than five decades and 100 volumes for the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru......