The essential humanity of the child must be paramount and the ethnocultural backdrop not be ignored.

Seeking to appease the BJP via 'dialogue' by certain Muslim 'representatives' may not be the answer. The community needs to work towards a correct prognosis of its condition, before it decides on steps that will provide a cure.

The long shadows of 1947 still reach this democratic and secular democracy.

By rejecting socially established behaviours in its judgment, does the court mean that the pockets of ‘qualified public places’ like schools, courts, war rooms, defence camps, etc. are subject to a different regime?

An alliance to replace the BJP is not good enough; joining together to create a beautiful alternative must be our aim.

In 'The Begum and the Dastan', Tarana Husain Khan writes with great empathy as she examines the crumbling and often cruel lifestyles of the past which hurt women the most.

The Gandhi potential to draw vote might have ebbed but only the blind would say that right now there is an alternative that can swiftly turn the graph around.

India retains a place for inclusive, secular politics but we cannot secure that for ourselves if we do not believe, as is the case with some friends, that there is such a place.

The two neighbours must give up their narrow visions and look beyond the here and now, towards a future they can share