This year, Holi falls both on a Friday and in the holy month of Ramzan. Political analysts say Holi and Eid have long been tools of political outreach in India.
A cleric chastising Mohammad Shami for not fasting during Ramzan is less about religion and more about power theology and the confrontational ideology it engenders.
Amit Malviya brought Telangana circular on a one-hour relaxation for Muslim employees during Ramzan to public notice. But, the party has been silent on a similar memo by the Naidu govt.
The US president said that he hoped to have a ceasefire in the conflict by the following Monday. Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of a two state solution.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
A writer can decide what is right or wrong in their own narrative, but somehow people lose that same freedom when they speak for something real, like saving the lives of thousands of goats that would otherwise be killed. The writer can passionately argue over where Haleem should be served or how its pairing with Dosa is culturally inappropriate. But the moment a group voices concern and asks to avoid Haleem altogether, not out of bias but to prevent mass slaughter, it suddenly becomes communal.
This piece is well…just intellectually lazy. Dismissing the boycott as ‘bigotry’ without actually engaging with the argument behind it is weak opinion writing. Strong commentary should dismantle the opposing view, not just label it and move on.
The food-as-unity trope is also a tired cliché in Indian secular writing. People can share a meal and still harbour deep prejudices — culinary overlap doesn’t resolve communal tensions, and invoking it as though it does feels like a shortcut. So-called “binding over food” is trivial and glorifying it as some larger civilisational argument is indeed a stretch.
A writer can decide what is right or wrong in their own narrative, but somehow people lose that same freedom when they speak for something real, like saving the lives of thousands of goats that would otherwise be killed. The writer can passionately argue over where Haleem should be served or how its pairing with Dosa is culturally inappropriate. But the moment a group voices concern and asks to avoid Haleem altogether, not out of bias but to prevent mass slaughter, it suddenly becomes communal.
This piece is well…just intellectually lazy. Dismissing the boycott as ‘bigotry’ without actually engaging with the argument behind it is weak opinion writing. Strong commentary should dismantle the opposing view, not just label it and move on.
The food-as-unity trope is also a tired cliché in Indian secular writing. People can share a meal and still harbour deep prejudices — culinary overlap doesn’t resolve communal tensions, and invoking it as though it does feels like a shortcut. So-called “binding over food” is trivial and glorifying it as some larger civilisational argument is indeed a stretch.