Shehzad Poonawalla

The writer, a lawyer, was petitioner to the NCM in the 2013 housing discrimination and Misbah Qadri cases.

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A significant breakthrough came from addressing living standards and hygiene.

Tue, Mar 10, 2026

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Gandhi’s latest allegations inadvertently bolster the case for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists, a process Congress’s ally Tejashwi Yadav opposes in Bihar

Tue, Aug 12, 2025

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi addressing the nation from the Doordarshan studio during Emergency. (Express archive photo August, 1975)

Emergency, Congress and a politics of hypocrisySubscriber Only

July 01,2025 06:37:24 AM

50 years after Emergency, Congress has neither apologised nor learnt any lesson

Tue, Jul 01, 2025

MPs during a debate on the Waqf Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Waqf Bill will bring transparency. So why is it causing anxiety?Subscriber Only

April 03,2025 10:32:16 AM

It aims to make waqf boards transparent and accountable, and is an honest attempt to correct past excesses

Thu, Apr 03, 2025

I say this as a Bharatiya Muslim: Congress rejection of Ram Mandir invite is hypocriticalSubscriber Only

January 12,2024 15:01:11 PM

Ram sabke hai. He belongs to all of humanity. For the Congress to boycott this epochal moment only flags how low the party is willing to go for vote-bank politics and obstructionism

Sat, Jan 13, 2024

Under India’s presidency, a people’s G20Subscriber Only

February 28,2023 07:30:21 AM

By putting people at the front and centre of its G20 efforts, India’s presidency may well turn out to be the ‘Setu of Solidarity’ that can bridge an increasingly fragmented world and steer it towards ‘One Earth, One Family and One Future’

Wed, Mar 01, 2023

Under PM Narendra Modi, India is no country for appeasement and victim card politics anymoreSubscriber Only

September 23,2020 03:28:18 AM

Tavleen Singh fails to provide examples of institutional discrimination in Modi regime.

Thu, Sep 24, 2020