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Share on emailShare on favoritesShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on digg|More Sharing Services 21 August 2014 OPEN ESSAY Tufail Ahmad is a former journalist with the BBC Urdu Service and Director of South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East...

“Spare a thought for secularism. One month into the life of The Satanic Verses, only two states anywhere in the world had taken decisive action against the book and they had done so purely for secular reasons” – Achal Prabhala unravels multiple strands...

Giaa Singh rehearses for her arangetram… There is a dance within each one of us. We need to simply tune in! And tuning in seems easy for Giaa Singh. A trained western dancer, a classical vocalist, young Giaa Singh is all set for her Odissi dance...

And so very much more. . . First up, from Al Jazeera’s AJ+, it’s official: Fox News Says…The Holy War Is Here! Program notes: A Holy War has begun and you should be very afraid! That’s according to Fox News, the news network famous for fear mongering...

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it. What is the...