As General elections 2019 are approaching different political parties are raising issues according to their deeper agenda, and according to what they perceive will appeal to the voters. There are some parties which thrive on polarization as it pays electoral dividends to their fortunes. The efforts to throw...

Traditions and customs are being used to redefine and redraw the contours of secularism in India in last couple of years. The Constitutional parents, with near unanimity, if not unanimously, embraced the principle of secularism and the principle was followed in the initial years in post-independence period to gradually check the power of religious...

Radical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist Nearly 31 years after the ghastly massacre of 42 Muslims by the goons of the Provincial Arms Constabulary, notoriously known as PAC in the Hashimpura locality of Meerut on May 22nd, 1987, Delhi High Court overturned a lower court...

Radical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist Pakistan is on the turmoil at the moment. In a historic judgment Pakistan Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, a Dalit Christian woman who was sentenced to death by the lower courts for the charges of blasphemy. The court judgment...

President, Association of World Citizens The United Nations remains the only universally representative and comprehensively empowered body the world has to deal with challenges to the security and welfare of the world society.  However, the awareness of these challenges grows unevenly.  Often the awareness first develops among the representatives...