It’s a real shocker. Mumbai Police, in an internal circular, has asked cops to monitor activities of a Muslim organisation – Girls Islamic Organisation. Their reason: The organisation is “indoctrinating young women and training them for jihad.” First, let us see what this organization is that, according to Mumbai Police, is out to make jihadis out of college-going Muslim girls. Girls Islamic Organisation is a wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. […]

In Pic :The young protesters at Dhaka may not be radical chic, but they deserve our cheers WHY DID India react with such tepidness and defensiveness to the Shahbag Square protests in Bangladesh? The reference here is not so much to the response of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) as to civil society, the media and intelligentsia. The government was correct but concise in its approach and its support […]