The credit for this endearing of Hindi among people who were until recently wary of it should go to the dozens of YouTubers and journalists who successfully challenged the might of the Godi media and reached out to millions of Indians with a message of hope and sanity. 

When you described us as infiltrators, I was rather amused since my paternal and maternal lineages were full of people who had 'infiltrated' into India’s freedom struggle.

The recent meeting of the RSS chief with 'Muslim intellectuals' has elicited divergent opinions. The crucial aspect to consider here is what is the use of parleying with those whose aim is to disenfranchise, if not annihilate, Muslims.

If the number of zealots among Muslim Indians attracted to the phantasmagoria of global Islamic Jihad was minuscule, it was because of India's secular constitution and pluralism. Aggressive Hindutva is changing that.

The controversy about whether Muslim girls can wear an extra piece of cloth matching the colour of their school uniform can only be understood in the context of the systematic marginalisation of Muslim identity in Indian life.

Until recently, it was the Turkish army that wrecked the country’s democratic prospects, but today it is the president, now emboldened by a crushing electoral victory, who will continue to curb the democratic rights of Turkey's citizens.

In all likelihood, we will hear in the days to come the shrill rhetoric of Turkish nationalism and anti-Kurd pronouncements much more than at any time in the recent past.

Yemen is of such strategic and geo-political import that any further escalation in the civil war will have serious consequences for global trade and maritime security, particularly if it reaches the narrow shipping corridor of Bab Al Mandab.