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Seema Alavi
The writer is Professor, Department of History, Delhi University
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December 25,2000 00:00:00 AM
Flying from New York to Lyon in France some weeks ago, I had an interesting conversation with two teenaged French Jews who were my fellow ...
Mon, Dec 25, 2000America’s Thanksgiving Day is sexistSubscriber Only
December 11,2000 00:00:00 AM
The last Thursday of every November is a national holiday in America: Thanksgiving Day. As invitations to traditional feasts began to pour...
Mon, Dec 11, 2000US elections — It’s about styleSubscriber Only
October 19,2000 00:00:00 AM
This is election time in the US. The populous state of Texas is the hub of activity in this year's race for the presidency. Its popular Go...
Thu, Oct 19, 2000The hyphen between communitiesSubscriber Only
September 19,2000 00:00:00 AM
Prime Minister Vajpayee's visit to the USA may have created news in New York and Washington, but in the vast and populous border states of...
Tue, Sep 19, 2000Muslim women must have their saySubscriber Only
July 25,2000 00:00:00 AM
In the last three months, two major events concerning Muslim women created news. First, the National Commission of Women released the stat...
Tue, Jul 25, 2000The Koh-i-Noor reflects our multifaceted pastSubscriber Only
June 30,2000 00:00:00 AM
In the last session of Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP, Kuldip Nayar, along with a group of 25 parliamentarians raised the demand for the retur...
Fri, Jun 30, 2000The grammar of Mulayam’s HindiSubscriber Only
April 10,2000 00:00:00 AM
On the eve of President Clinton's address to members of both Houses of Parliament an unsavoury controversy was raised by the Samajwadi chi...
Mon, Apr 10, 2000Benares, syncretic city of yoreSubscriber Only
February 22,2000 00:00:00 AM
The controversy around the shooting of Deepa Mehta's film, Water, in Benares highlights once again the relevance of interpretating the pas...
Tue, Feb 22, 2000Exuberant over Kalyan’s exitSubscriber Only
December 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
With the unceremonious exit of Kalyan Singh, the Muslims of Uttar Pradesh feel relieved. The Kalyan Singh regime prided itself on issues ...
Fri, Dec 03, 1999Coloniser and the wise BrahminSubscriber Only
November 11,1999 00:00:00 AM
Historians may dismiss the construction of the colonial ``other'' as a mere narrative production. They convincingly demonstrate that colo...
Thu, Nov 11, 1999Do these patriarchs really care?Subscriber Only
September 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
There is a complete invisibility of women's issues in even the lip service political parties pay to Muslim concerns. Political rhetoric i...
Tue, Sep 21, 1999The Muslim vote bank is a mythSubscriber Only
August 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
Having taken the Muslims for a ride for almost half a century the Congress party has the temerity to expect a turn of Muslim votes in its...
Thu, Aug 19, 1999When nationalism wears uniformSubscriber Only
July 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
The recent enthusiastic response to military recruitment in Bihar and Rajasthan has often been attributed to the post-Kargil nationalisti...
Wed, Jul 28, 1999So much for American valuesSubscriber Only
October 26,1998 00:00:00 AM
The Kenneth Starr report on the sexual relations between American President Bill Clinton and the former White House intern Monica Lewinsk...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998The real victim is civil societySubscriber Only
August 24,1998 00:00:00 AM
The political exasperation of the Bombay Muslims after the riots of December 1992-January 1993 was most evident when they sought a rappro...
Mon, Aug 24, 1998Towards perfection in realpolitikSubscriber Only
March 26,1998 00:00:00 AM
It is indeed ironical that Kalyan Singh -- who will go down in history as the only chief minister who despite the Supreme Court verdict on t...
Thu, Mar 26, 1998Clinton leads a new Christian crusadeSubscriber Only
December 27,1997 00:00:00 AM
On a cold winter January weekend in 1991 the senior common room of my college at Cambridge, England, reverberated with joyous cries of triu...
Sat, Dec 27, 1997Gender justice with sensitivitySubscriber Only
November 11,1997 00:00:00 AM
In August this year the Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment to prevent sexual harassment of women in their place of work. The judgment...
Tue, Nov 11, 1997The caste of the shoplifterSubscriber Only
June 14,1997 00:00:00 AM
During a recent stint in New York city I landed myself in an embarrassing situation in a department store. As I picked up a card I did not ...
Sat, Jun 14, 1997A Muslim woman’s secular sorrowsSubscriber Only
May 10,1997 00:00:00 AM
In secular democratic India a Muslim woman's efforts to write on issues concerning those aspects of the Muslim Personal Law which impinge o...
Sat, May 10, 1997Journalism of Courage
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