Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India

Nida Kirmani 14 January 2011
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent the ‘Muslim community’ while re-framing the category ‘Muslim women’ in order to assert political agency

India’s quest for nuclear energy

Rupakjyoti Borah 5 January 2011
As India sets about generating more than twelve times its current level of nuclear power by 2035, it seldom encounters countries insisting on the letter of the Nuclear NPT.

After protests, militancy in the Valley

Fahad Shah 20 December 2010
The killing of a young Kashmiri heralds renewed militancy in the Kashmir valley after summer's protest movement.

The gay Orient

Amit Julka 14 December 2010
The west, unlike India, for example, has unwittingly created a wedge between ‘straightness’ and ‘gayness’ that makes it difficult for society to accept homosexuality as ‘normal’.

Gender and the perils of identity politics in India

Zoya Hasan 30 November 2010
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around the legal rights of Muslim women illustrate the perils of identity politics in matters of gender equality

Emerged India: enter a great power

Chris Ogden 11 November 2010
India can no longer be ignored. It is a necessary and valuable partner, and this is something on which the rest of the world can take their lead from the US. But how will Delhi respond?

Rising India!

Ehsan Ahrari 11 November 2010
The Indian Prime Minister might be enjoying the fact that he is now in a position to offer the American president billions of dollars worth of jobs. But he would be better off concentrating on the strategic thinking worthy of a great power

This isn't the end of the far right in India

Samir Jeraj 8 October 2010
To some observers, the recent Ayodhya verdict and lack of mass ethnic violence in India indicates the softening of nationalist tensions. But the subtler, more powerful and pervasive side of Hindu Nationalism in civil society will ensure that this is not the twilight of ethnic strife.

Delhi 2010: Where did it all go wrong?

Satbir Singh 6 October 2010
With the Commonwealth Games underway, Satbir Singh traces the psychology underpinning India's celebration of and embarrassment at the event.

Ayodhya: verdict and consequence

Deep K Datta-Ray 5 October 2010
An Indian court’s ruling on the Hindu-Muslim dispute over the sacred site of Ayodhya sheds light on the relationship between two forms of rationality in India, says Deep K Datta-Ray.

Chinese dragon versus Indian tiger

Rajeev Sharma 5 October 2010
China's military and diplomatic expansion points to an intensifying arms race between the world's two most populous countries, argues Rajeev Sharma.

Bribe-and-tell

Nilanjana Bhowmick 27 September 2010
A website urging Indians to speak out against corruption is not the only initiative of its kind, but it may be one of the first to create a platform for citizen participation  

Kashmir: a place of blood and memory

Nitasha Kaul 31 August 2010
In attempting to suffocate a separate Kashmiri identity, India reveals the cracks in its own idea of nationhood, argues Nitasha Kaul.

Kashmir's e-protest

Fahad Shah 6 August 2010
Fahad Shah reports on the rising tide of e-protest in Kashmir.

Cameron was right: Pakistan has some soul searching to do

Zainab Mahmood 5 August 2010
The outrage at David Cameron's criticism of Pakistan's role in combating terrorism hides the truth: Pakistan is a fractured society in need of rediscovering a sense of unity with which it can defeat the Taliban, argues Zainab Mahmood.

A Good Friday Agreement for Kashmir

Naveed Qazi 5 August 2010
The prospect for peace in Kashmir lies, according to Naveed Qazi, in an adaptation of an arrangement similar to the one that brought peace to North Ireland.

India-Pakistan talks: the need for a grand negotiating strategy

Medha Bisht 2 August 2010
After bilateral talks between India and Pakistan, Medha Bisht analyses the underlying issues plaguing the negotiations.

An asset-turned-liability

Basil James 2 August 2010
The current Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill proposed by the Indian government does not protect prospective victims in the eventuality of a nuclear accident caused by corporate negligence.

The Assam conflict: a failure of the press

Aruni Kashyap 29 July 2010
While debate on Assam's future rages in the Assamese media, the issue continues to be ignored by the Indian national press.

India and the NPT: what next?

Yogesh Joshi 21 July 2010
The possibilities of India joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a Non-Nuclear Weapon State are bleak. However, no-one will want to see the treaty undermined by accommodating India as a Nuclear Weapons State. The only option available which serves the interests of both India and the NPT is to maintain the status quo
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