Who is the bigger security risk? on November 7, 2014India’s secular mask was ripped off with the slogans used in the 2014 Indian election campaigns, which resulted in the win of Narendra Modi, the hardcore Hindu nationalist of the 2002 Gujarat riot fame, supported by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a shadowy and violent Hindu organisation with umbilical ties to the ruling Bharatiya Janata […]
Justice is blind but judges are not on October 5, 2014The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) recent electoral victory has raised certain questions about the party’s ideological makeup, organisational structure, financial sources and its policy and approach towards India’s minorities, especially the Muslims. Such themes are identified and addressed by Muhammad Mujeeb Afzal, who teaches (Indian) politics and international relations at Quaid-e-Azam University, in his book […]