We thank the political leadership of both countries for using sombre and sensitive language at such a time ... and urge them to go further and rigorously investigate and get to the bottom of such an attack.

BY Prabhat Patnaik 19 February 2007

Some Muslims have equated family planning with infanticide and thus concluded it was forbidden in Islam. Islam not only permits, but actively encourages, non-reversible forms of birth control practices.

BY Javed Anand 16 September 2004

Mumbai daily tries to incite religious hatred and instigate violence against the renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar, President of MSD in particular and other office bearers and members of MSD in general.

BY Javed Anand 19 July 2004

'The least one can expect is that the Board will arrive at some consensus on the model nikaahnama proposed by several Muslim women's groups nearly a decade ago and on which the Board continues to drag its feet.'

BY Javed Anand 2 July 2004

A new organisation formed in "response on one hand to the sustained hate propaganda and the celebration of violence by the Sangh Parivar and its affiliates, and on the other to fanatics and extremists among Muslims who claim to be the sole representa

BY Javed Akhtar 1 October 2003