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Book Review: Devesh Verma’s novel “The Politician” is about one man’s quest for unbridled power

A novel about one man’s quest for unbridled power, which warns us not to make politics a matter of emotional calling.

“Delhi in Historical Perspectives” by K.A. Nizami. Translated from Urdu by Ather Farouqui, Oxford University Press, 2020.

Book Review: K.A. Nizami's "Ehd-e-Wusta ki Dilli" traces six centuries of Delhi as a cultural capital

A fine translation of K.A. Nizami’s Urdu book, “Ehd-e-Wusta ki Dilli”, which chronicles the history and culture of Delhi across six centuries.

Marginalisation of women and the social exclusion discourse

The book makes a sincere attempt to identify the predicament of suppressed women who find themselves in a quagmire of ordeal set up by the majoritaria

Dialogic study of Muslim women

This anthology of articles combines analytical sensibility with academic rigour to provide fresh insight into the historical and current status of wom

Kashmiri Muslim women praying at the Jamia Masjid on the first Friday of Ramzan, in Srinagar in 2011.

Unveiling answers

The book examines, through readings from the Quran and the Hadith, the role of the mosque in Islam, and questions the ambivalence about gender equalit

Demystifying talaq

A conscientious explanation of the puzzling issue of instantaneous talaq.

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