In 1977, a young, clean-shaven man, attired in an immaculate dhoti and kurta, joined the department of Sanskrit in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University as an assistant lecturer (on an ad hoc basis) to teach the Vedas. His name was […]
By Sumit Paul, We seem to be rapidly sinking into a cesspool of rabid differences, discrimination and diabolical political designs. The latest row over a Muslim scholar’s appointment as a Sanskrit professor at the famed Benaras Hindu University mirrors the […]
An Uttarakhand-based gurukul college is organising a five-day yoga camp exclusively for Muslims in Pauri Garhwal district’s Kotdwar town starting Wednesday. The Vedic Ashram Gurukula Mahavidyalaya, at Kanvasharam in Kotdwar, which has organised the event, has claimed that this is […]
Muslims are the second-largest demographic of India, with nearly 14 per cent of the country’s population or roughly 172 million people, but they are so marginalised that their presence in important public spheres is almost invisible. Muslims continue to suffer […]
The protesters know that the selection committee could not possibly have said that even though Khan was the best candidate for the position, he should not be offered the job due to communal considerations. If the selected candidate was, say, […]
As political parties including the DMK staged protests on Friday pressing their demand for a transparent probe into the suicide of an IIT Madras student, the institution said it is extending full cooperation to the police investigation, now transferred to […]
Terming the denial of entry to “unarmed women” into the Sabarimala temple as a “sad spectacle”, the minority verdict by the Supreme Court on Thursday held that enforcement of its 2018 order is “non-negotiable” and no person or authority can […]
Rev Basant Kumar Paul heads the Evangelical Church in the village of Parihara. For activist, they were attacked because of their faith in Jesus Christ. The injured are in hospital in critical conditions and must undergo further surgery which they […]
Muslim student Fatima Latif, who was studying in a first year of MA humanities and development studies (integrated), was found hanging in her hostel room at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The 19-year-old topper Muslim Girl Student has committed […]
Firoze, whose appointment as assistant professor in the Sanskrit faculty of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) last week created a controversy, was the only Muslim student in the Jaipur institute from where he completed his doctorate in 2018. Firoze, who prefers […]
