Killing freedom, muzzling dissent
The gory murder of Avijit Roy in the streets of Dhaka sparked due anxiety about the persistent brutality against dissenting voices. Rickshaw, the students’ collective at South Asian University in New...
View ArticleCowards in Paris, cowardice of the Ummah
“If you cannot laugh at your God, then that God must be very small. The Prophet is, well, a midget,” so said Stephane Charbonnier, the Editor-in Chief of Charlie Hebdo, just a few years ago. He was not...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo: Of Jihadists and Jane Austen
In Chapter 11 of the English writer Jane Austen’s much-loved novel Pride and Prejudice is the following exchange between the two central characters, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. Darcy: “The...
View ArticleThe man and the dog
“It might not be safe for you to come back here,” a friend told me over the phone last week. “I know,” I replied. “I’ve already thought of that.” It was February 23, and we were discussing an article I...
View ArticleMilitants will always get through for one reason: Money
In 2011, U.S. intelligence informed French authorities that a French citizen had slipped into Yemen, probably for terrorist training. In November, the French security services placed the man, Said...
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