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Seema Alavi
The writer is Professor, Department of History, Delhi University
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The hollowing of idealsSubscriber Only
April 14,2017 00:38:46 AM
A corruption of Mandal and of secularism defeated Congress, SP, BSP
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
Soundbites on Muslims filled the airSubscriber Only
May 07,2007 23:08:43 PM
The community was assiduously wooed during a crucial election but where is the reform?
Mon, May 07, 2007Memories unspooledSubscriber Only
February 20,2007 01:39:23 AM
Rahul Dholakia’s film raises an important question that demands an answer
Tue, Feb 20, 2007China, up closeSubscriber Only
November 28,2006 00:26:31 AM
Academic tolerance, long-roped interdisciplinary research, are the buzzwords in academic circuits
Tue, Nov 28, 2006The joke called higher educationSubscriber Only
April 16,2006 23:17:11 PM
Reservations will not destroy higher education; the damage has already been done
Sun, Apr 16, 2006This ostrich act is misconceivedSubscriber Only
February 17,2006 00:03:54 AM
As a citizen of India and as a Muslim I would like to know the Muslim representation in the armed forces. I think I have a right to this inf...
Fri, Feb 17, 2006Britain’s waySubscriber Only
August 04,2005 00:00:00 AM
It has been a trying time living in central London this summer. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and the Madrid train bomb b...
Thu, Aug 04, 2005Lunch with BenazirSubscriber Only
May 19,2005 00:00:00 AM
Last month Benazir Bhutto visited Harvard University. I had the pleasure of listening to her over a lunch hosted by the South Asia Initiativ...
Thu, May 19, 2005The nation as a religious projectSubscriber Only
April 11,2005 00:39:26 AM
Ever since I arrived in the United States some weeks ago, only one story dominated TV and the print media. The sad story of Terri Schiavo, t...
Mon, Apr 11, 2005Seven days in Saudi ArabiaSubscriber Only
October 22,2004 00:00:00 AM
It was my first visit to the Arab world. I was in Saudi Arabia traveling across the desert to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and then t...
Fri, Oct 22, 2004Why blame the Shariat?Subscriber Only
September 29,2004 00:00:00 AM
Ever since the story of Arif Muhammad, the soldier who returned to India to find his wife married and pregnant, made news reporters have ask...
Wed, Sep 29, 2004Distortions in a cracked mirrorSubscriber Only
August 26,2004 00:00:00 AM
If the media is the mirror of a nation’s sensitivities, the reportage of the murder of a gay couple in Delhi’s upscale Anand Lok c...
Thu, Aug 26, 2004Two steps back in LucknowSubscriber Only
June 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
All over the world there has been condemnation of US-led attacks on Muslim holy sites in Iraq. One fully understands the emotions that make ...
Tue, Jun 15, 2004Hello, Prime MinisterSubscriber Only
April 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
Dear Prime Minister: Thank you for your call to me last week. It was heartening to hear you enumerate your achievements in making our countr...
Wed, Apr 28, 2004Gay marriages and the US electionsSubscriber Only
March 10,2004 00:00:00 AM
Ameerica is gearing up to elect its next president. The Democrats don’t have to work too hard to find issues to go Bush bashing. The pr...
Wed, Mar 10, 2004Maulana Azad’s forgotten centenarySubscriber Only
October 30,2003 00:00:00 AM
A day before the holiday season began, two burqa clad students wished me Happy Diwali. Most Muslim houses in my neighborhood had traditional...
Thu, Oct 30, 2003A community, strangely connectedSubscriber Only
September 18,2003 00:00:00 AM
The liberal ambience of Lucknow where I grew up ensured I was unconscious of my Muslim identity. The Babri masjid demolition made me aware I...
Thu, Sep 18, 2003Cambridge: Fast forward, rewindSubscriber Only
May 16,2003 00:00:00 AM
I was a student at Cambridge University, UK, when Gulf War I broke out in 1991. As American aircraft pounded Iraq, the world paused to watch...
Fri, May 16, 2003Saved by its ismsSubscriber Only
January 03,2003 00:00:00 AM
It was with a sense of shame that one read the findings of the Berlin based Transparency International which announced last year that India ...
Fri, Jan 03, 2003In Britain, an eye on GujaratSubscriber Only
December 16,2002 00:00:00 AM
I have never seen as much western public interest in a state election as the Gujarat polls evoked. It is true that Britain now has a substan...
Mon, Dec 16, 2002Cambridge is no longer an islandSubscriber Only
October 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
I was a student at Cambridge University when the 1991 Gulf War broke out. The most irksome memories of my days were of the university campus...
Wed, Oct 30, 2002The story Urdu textbooks tell usSubscriber Only
July 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
If language represents the cultural moorings of people, then Urdu certainly reflects a north Indian, urban Muslim lifestyle. In Urdu literat...
Mon, Jul 22, 2002Bush emerged a winner from 9/11Subscriber Only
May 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
Early last year on a long drive from the Washington airport to my hotel at the city centre, my African-American cab driver kept me engaged w...
Thu, May 30, 2002This concerns us allSubscriber Only
May 08,2002 00:00:00 AM
The husband of a Muslim neighbour of mine walks out on her as Gujarat burns. She tells me she has filed a case under the Muslim Women’s...
Wed, May 08, 2002Down Mexico waySubscriber Only
January 22,2001 00:00:00 AM
Travelling through the cities 16th century Spain founded leaves one stunned. Cities like Morelia, Patzcuaro, Guadalajara, Guanajuato and S...
Mon, Jan 22, 2001Journalism of Courage
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