Misconceptions that handicap society from accepting change
Shah Alam Khan
Legalising LGBT relationships have two entirely divergent angles. It is both an issue of religious faith and a matter of human rights. Unfortunately, as a bystander, I have seen on more than a single occasion that religion and human rights do not go hand in hand. Our […]

Ravi Mariwalla
A more unified focus on health will have to be intense or the country may silently slip into a coma. The issues being highlighted in the media are often isolated reports, critiques and mere descriptions of what is wrong and in a piecemeal manner. There is need to direct our energies to improve the […]

M.A. Shaik Abdullah
The issue of LGBT, as it has come to be known, is far more important to be left purely within the realm of personal domain of certain individuals, because it has serious implications on society, in general, and certain fundamental ethos, in particular. Though the decision to decriminalise the act of homosexuality is […]

Time to revive institutions in humanities education 
Shreesh Chaudhary
IISc, Bangalore celebrated its centenary in 2007-08. IIT, Kharagpur celebrated its golden jubilee in 2004-05. IIT, Bombay did so in 2008-09. Yearlong golden jubilee celebrations will end at IIT, Madras in July 2009. IIT, Delhi and IIT, Kanpur may follow.
The English & Foreign Languages University (EFLU), former […]

Kartikeya Dar
With the attacks on Indians in Australia becoming an issue impossible to ignore and dismiss as chance incidents, a tangential question that arises is whether Indian society is itself racist or not.
According to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the U.N. has laid down in Article 1 […]

D. Raja Ganesan
Sigmund Freud has adduced clinical evidence and argued that facing the matriculation examination is a traumatic experience — even for those who prepare well and acquit themselves creditably, because the examination keeps recurring invariably in a template of anxiety in our dreams till very late in life. He has pointed out in his […]

Fanned by the diligent pursuit of the divide and rule policy by the British 
MAHMOOD BIN MUHAMMAD
Not very long ago, a young British scholar was in India on an incredible mission: “to study the Hindu-Muslim problem in India.” At an interactive session held at the Henry Martin Institute of Islamic Studies in Hyderabad, my […]

AMIT FAISAL HASHMI
Most of us, as Muslims, point our finger to the external factors such as the government, society as a whole and the conspirators that do not want this community to progress and declare that the atmosphere is not conducive to the growth of Muslims in India just because Muslims are in minority. But […]

ROSHIN ABRAHAM
We just observed June 26 as ‘the international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking.’ Drug abuse prevention has two dimensions to it. Supply reduction and demand reduction. Supply reduction has to do with dealing with illicit drug trafficking, law enforcement, etc (what our Narcotic control bureau does). Demand reduction, on the other […]

P. SRISUDHA

The booming use of cell phones has created a new but dangerous stream of waste called “electronic-waste”, or simply, e-waste. A recent survey reveals the fact that nearly 8 lakh tonnes of e-waste will be generated in India by the end of 2012. E- waste is made up of multiple components some of which […]