Foodgrain being transported to a warehouse in Delhi on Friday. Earlier this week, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) said that it requires an extra foodgrain storage capacity of 20 million tonnes in the medium term. At present, the FCI has a capacity to store 71.9 million tonnes of foodgrain. [...]

Every year, at some point, India and China enter a bizarre phase of constant skirmishes on their common disputed borders, mostly in Ladakh, in the state of Jammu & Kashmir (even as China maintains that Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of India). With Chinese troops venturing across the Line [...]

However, the Qur’an has no such description. Where, then, did Buraq’s human face come from? Most often it is a female face. Hadees does mention the Buraq … but is the female face ever mentioned? (In any case, some Muslims do not believe in Hadees) Recently Richard Dawkins mentioned a ‘winged horse’ in his Twitter account, referring to Mehdi Hasan‘s belief … [...]

Urdu hai mera naam main Khusrau ki paheli Main Meer ki humraaz hun Ghalib ki saheli (My name is Urdu and I am Khusrau’s riddle I am Meer’s confidante and Ghalib’s friend) Kyun mujhko banate ho tassub ka nishana Maine to kabhi khud ko musalmaan nahi maana (Why have you [...]

Tunis, Tunisia: Setting sail from Naples on Italy’s coast, with a stopover in Sicily, Jolanda Putz made her way across the Mediterranean to Tunisia. At 81, she may have been one of the oldest attendees at the recently held World Social Forum in Tunisia and as a capitalism-loathing, social justice-loving [...]

‘Noodle Pema’ — that’s what she was called to distinguish her from the many other girls in her village also named Pema (Pema is one of the most common names for Ladakhi girls) — was the only child of a poor couple who lived in a small hamlet up in [...]

A few of my male friends were sitting in a classy café. It was a routine gathering and the hot topic of discussion was the rape of a five-year old in Delhi. They certainly condemned the act. All educated men do that. Two beers down, they became angry about the [...]

Multiculturalism is often a loosely used term. It is used to denote the presence of many cultures. Ask a school or college-goer as to what the example of multicultural society is; chances are he would say it is India. It is not wrong to say that India is a multicultural [...]

Something I was reading today triggered off what felt, at the moment, like a very important realisation. Everyone has been in a tizzy of anger since the gruesome rape of the five-year-old child in Delhi. People are protesting and standing up for someone who could be my sister, my neighbour or [...]

On the day Narendra Modi made the speech in a media conclave, Amaresh Misra, who claims to be well connected to the UP state Congress, lost it on Twitter. He proceeded to rain abuse on individuals supporting the right wing Modi. Swift outrage followed. The tweets were unquestionably vile. Misra’s [...]

 ’Umro Ayar – The Comic‘ was recently launched in Pakistan. A group of six youngsters who love comics want to bring them seriously into Pakistan. A great start. The group intends to bring out loads of classic tales, crime stories of Ibné Safi(!), and much, much more. I am sure [...]

A 5-year-old girl was out playing in Delhi, when she was kidnapped. Taken to a room in the same building in which she stayed with her family, she was raped and brutalised with objects. The men then scurried back to their villages in Bihar, abandoning the child without food and [...]