Monthly Archives: May 2010

Delhi CM fears trouble if Afzal is hanged

By | 2010-05-19T12:32:00-04:00 May 19th, 2010|News|

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition has been sent back by the Delhi government on Wednesday to Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna with the Delhi government fearing ant-social elements may try and foment communal trouble in some parts of the national capital.

Three Interlinked Problematics

By | 2010-05-19T06:32:00-04:00 May 19th, 2010|Op-Eds|

1]   Identity: On August 13, 1947, the Muslim Indian who went to bed resolved to remain in India woke up on August 14, 1947 still an Indian. But Muslim Indians who chose to leave India and join the new entity, Pakistan, slept as Indians and woke up the next morning having dropped the word Indian from their name and replaced it with a new appellation derived from the word ‘Pakistan’.