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Narendra Modi Wins Gujarat Again

by Mohib Ahmad

du’aa (Prayer) aaiye haath uThaayeN ham bhii ham jinheN rasm-e-du’aa yaad nahiiN ham jinheN soz-e-muhabbat ke sivaa ko’ii but, ko’ii Khudaa yaad nahiiN aaiye arz guzaareN ke nigaar-e-hastii zehr-e-imroz meN shiiriini-e-fardaa bhar de voh jinheN taab-garaaN-baarii-e-ayyaam nahiiN un ki palkoN pe shab-o-roz ko halkaa kar de jin kii aaNkhoN ko rukh-e-subh ka yaaraa bhii nahiiN [...]

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Dan dana dan Modi

by Sharique

It was 1:15, just 15 minutes for Jummah, and I was still 10 minutes away from the mosque. My rickshawala was trying to avoid the drizzle that followed the heavy downpour. The fabulous city was free of any water stagnation, thanks to the wonderful drainage she has (you know everything beautiful has to be a [...]

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Tehelka, Journalists Lead Indians to Redeem Their values

by Mirza Akhtar Beg

Tehelka, the intrepid news magazine did what the Indian government should have done in the past five years. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to the editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal and reporter Ashish Khetan who took enormous risk to procure evidence on video tapes about the planning of the genocide perpetrated by the [...]

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Refuge of the Scoundrel

by Mirza Faisal

In the context of the Gujarat Tehelka expose India needs to wake up and take notice. I am not asking about taking notice of the act because that has been known to all for long through works like Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution. India needs to take notice of the reactions of a section to the [...]

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A Trip to Gujarat

by Yoginder Sikand

‘Modi Sahib has wrought a revolution in Gujarat’ announced the glum-looking corpulent businessman sitting on the berth next to mine on the train to Ahmedabad recently. He proudly introduced himself as a Nagar Brahmin, even though I did not ask him his caste. ‘We now have regular electricity for our industries, new superhighways and massive [...]

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Open Thread: Gujarat Violence, Five Years Later

by Mohib Ahmad

The fifth anniversary of the tragedy of Gujarat is upon us. In these days of TRP-driven news coverage where any issue is relevant till the next breaking news, five years seem an eternity. IM Blog is solemnly commemorating those sad turn of events with the hope that it will help initiate a dialog among fellow [...]

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