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TopicAyatollah Khomeini

Topic: Ayatollah Khomeini

Ali Shariati—the Paris-educated scholar who taught Iranian women how to be modern & Islamic

In 'The Patriarchs', Angela Saini explores 'how men came to rule' women across places, cultures, and time.

For the regime’s eyes only: the powerful images used by protesting Iranian women

These photos draw on a longer history of Iranian women taking and sharing photos and videos of illegal actions—such as singing, dancing—to fight discrimination.

Iran’s people have begun an irreversible process—tearing off the theocratic veil

Iran’s ruling establishment will fight to the end. Locked in confrontation with the West, its leaders know they are on the edge of an existential threat.

The many shades of grey in Iran’s hijab war show it’s not just personal freedom vs theocracy

The hijab is a metaphor for a bitter struggle that involves identity, the State, and social class. For Iran's women, Westernisation was unequal—and often traumatic.

How Kashmiri Islam, tolerant and love-based religion, changed to hardened Sharia version

In ‘A Kashmiri Century’, Khem Lata Wakhlu writes about the human side of living in the Valley, something missed by cold political treatises on Kashmir.

On Camera

Game on in Gujarat — Ahmedabad is building India’s new sports economy

The massive success of the IPL is a watershed moment in Indian sports. It proved that sports could be an incredibly profitable commercial venture. The glamour, the glitz, and the spectacle of it didn’t go unnoticed.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.