Currently I am working on a project related to the study of Hyderabad Muslim youth. In my experience of the interviews with more than 250 Muslim youth of Hyderabad, most of the Muslim youth see around them prevalent systemic discrimination. While...

Recently I was asked by one friend of mine who works as a reporter in a ‘reputed’ regional Telugu daily, the reasons for ‘gun culture’ and ‘stone pelting culture’ in the Indian administered Kashmir valley. “Why is it that people of...

THE M.F. Husain controversy can be viewed at various levels. At one level, it is one of the uneducated literates and the uneducated illiterates of the sangh parivar making a public display of bad taste. They have been caught in a time warp that compels...

Over the past two decades enormous amount of energy has been spent by the conventional media on the ongoing commotion in the valley. This has enabled media to widely ignore the issues touching the general populace. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has...

Identity is informatively constituted by very expressions that are said to be its results- Judith Butler There is a proverb in Arabic Al tikrar biallem il hmar (By repetition even the donkey learns). The depiction of Muslims by far and widely...

The ongoing commotion in the valley is an embodiment of the fragile nature of Kashmir issue. India’s status quo approach on Kashmir issue is paving the way for disenchantment among the people of Jammu and Kashmir thereby giving rise to unrest in...

“The first semitic religion was Judaism an intolerant faith, then came Christianity, the child of former. That too was equally intolerant. Then came Islam- a long story of ‘Sword and Koran’ written in tears and blood of millions of innocent...

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin”. Hyderabad today is an embodiment of well-heeled city in terms of its representation in mainstream media. The rapid growth phase since...

The self and the non-self in Savarkar’s case were invariably in conflict and in an antagonistic relation. In his scheme of things, it was inconceivable for the self and the non-self to share a creative and happy relationship. The more Savarkar engaged...

Now that the dust has settled over the Gujarat elections, we can afford to defy the pundits and admit that, even if Narendra Modi had lost the last elections, it would not have made much difference to the culture of Gujarat politics. Modi had already...