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Where are we on basic education?
22 Dec 2016 2:59 AM ISTWe realised very late (in 2002) that the right to education for all children from age of six to fourteen years will have to be made a Fundamental...
Conversion, re-conversion and its limit!
8 Jan 2015 3:21 AM ISTThe concept of belonging to a particular religion or identity in a diverse country like ours has been a contentious issue. However, whether the...
Fighting old battles with new tricks
29 Oct 2014 4:54 AM ISTThe issue of ‘Love Jihad’ has drawn attention of many activists, academicians and lawyers and everyone who has taken a stand. Recently, two different...
Control, alter and encounter
1 Oct 2014 3:20 AM ISTThe Supreme Court, speaking through the Chief Justice of India, has laid down the norms, which will certainly create accountability on the police...
Curious case of Hobby lobby
14 Sept 2014 3:15 AM ISTFew weeks before, a nine-judges’ bench of the Supreme Court of the United States took a view on the issue as to whether a for-profit business...
Fatwa and problem of perception
16 July 2014 2:43 AM ISTIf a formal opinion is sought from an Islamic scholar, competent to issue such opinion, on an Islamic issue that may be understood as a ‘fatwa’. To...