Making grass legal

The monsoon session of Parliament is slated to take up a bill legalising medical uses of marijuana. Cancer patients and their families are hoping for a healthy debate Marijuana has a bad name. People think it turns the user into hippies, who dance around a fire — and when that high is no longer enough, […]

Orthodoxy challenged

Universities are supposed to encourage thought and expression, but Aligarh Muslim University belongs to the past, with its regressive environment A criminal case has been filed by a former student union leader of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) against three Muslim youths — Omer Ghazi, Fahad Zuberi and Nashra Ahmed — for hurting religious sentiments […]

Talk to me,pet!

Animal communicators claim to be able to speak to your pets, sometimes when they are lost, by connecting telepathically through pictures Buddy, a five-year-old dog, was found near a construction site in Bangalore by Kurush Siganporia. He was heavily injured, blood oozing out through his eyes. Siganporia, being an animal lover, took him immediately to […]

Will it be Messi versus the rest?

As the world cup kicks off on 14th june in Russia, here’s a glance at the participating teams, how the groups have lined up and who has the chances of lifting the coveted trophy on 15th july in Moscow If Russia is experiencing the frenzy before the much-awaited FIFA World Cup, the enthusiasm of Indians […]

Iftar of the year

His son Ankit was killed by family members of the Muslim girl he was in love with, but Yashpal Saxena overcame his grief to organise an Iftar party to spread the message of love Ankit Saxena, 23, was murdered on February 1 this year. He was killed by the family members of a Muslim girl […]

Scholastic view

‘India is the only country that is not overwhelmed by one of the three monotheistic religions. Hinduism has remained the most popular faith of the land since time immemorial,’ says Jan Ross Jan Ross, 50, was the foreign affairs editor at Die Zeit — the leading German weekly long-form newspaper — for 10 years before […]

Violence repels freshers

Whether it is Delhi University or JNU, the unrest widely reported in the media is discouraging students from making Capital campuses their first choice Incident 1: Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, went missing after a brawl with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Mahi-Mandavi Hostel in Delhi on […]

We need space for our library

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library was started on March 21, 1994 by our NGO Delhi Youth Welfare Association, of which I am the president. Our library has around 25,000 books. It boasts a collection of some of the rarest books, some of which are even 600 or more years old, written in Urdu, Persian and Arabic. […]