The Supreme Court has spoken on triple talaq but Muslim Personal Law remains a ticking bomb

Muslim activists have overcome the menace of patriarchy. Will the next battle be for the essential elements of their religion?

Ajaz Ashraf

· Yesterday · 06:30 am

What is common between Amit Shah’s BJP and the Australian cricket team in its heyday?

Hint: It has something to do with winning.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 20, 2017 · 08:00 am

Confronting Partition: Why we should mark August 17 as the Day of Mourning

On the day that Radcliffe drew his line, the people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must unite to examine our past and release our future from its claws.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 16, 2017 · 08:00 am

‘Partition was like living through the end of the world’: Pakistan’s leading poet Kishwar Naheed

Originally from Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, Naheed’s family moved to Pakistan two years after Independence.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 15, 2017 · 10:30 am

The Ashis Nandy interview: ‘People didn’t have the moral sanction to kill even during the Partition’

If the BJP regime lasts long enough, sizeable sections of the bureaucracy, army, police could be contaminated with a very narrow conception of nationalism.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 10, 2017 · 08:00 am

Opinion: The BJP’s ideology and its growth mirrors that of the Muslim League in the 1930s

In many ways, the subcontinent’s pre-Partition past is playing out in today’s India.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 07, 2017 · 08:00 am

Why Jaitley is wrong to equate GST phobia with fear of mobile phones when they were first introduced

Such statements have only aggravated the fear of India’s new tax regime.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 28, 2017 · 12:30 pm

How multiple tax slabs provide smaller businesses a reason to invent a cash trail to dodge GST

Cash trails are more likely to emerge in the unorganised sector.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 27, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Faced with a decline in (illegal) income, traders admit they will try to slip through GST net

The Goods and Services Tax norms means turnover and earnings can now be tracked.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 24, 2017 · 07:30 am

How Amit Shah and the BJP have twisted the story of Salar Masud and Raja Suheldev

Should an uncertain history and malleable popular memories be turned into a register of grievances that need to be redressed in the 21th century?

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 17, 2017 · 06:30 am

Opinion: Why the raids on Lalu Yadav should worry us about India's democracy

Courts will judge the merits of the case, but is it just a coincidence that so many raids occur just before a crucial political turn is about to take place?

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 09, 2017 · 08:00 am

Upset by GST provisions, will small traders finally lose their ardour for the BJP?

The new tax regime presupposes that small businessmen are thieves. ‘We have been stigmatised,’ said one man.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jul 07, 2017 · 06:30 am