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Jan 17, 2025 | 
openthemagazine.com | Minhaz Merchant
Columns | Opinion Nurturing the British Muslim vote bank at the expense of vulnerable citizens Sir Keir Starmer (Photo: AP) SHOULD BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer be in prison? Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, thinks so. What has Sir Keir done to annoy the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X? Between 2008 and 2013, Sir Keir was head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which prosecutes criminal cases following investigations by the police in England and Wales.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
firstpost.com | Minhaz Merchant
Donald Trump’s personal chemistry with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is strong. Tariffs could sour the pitch. But like Trump, Modi himself knows how to cut the best deal for Indiaread moreAt his core, Trump remains a dealmaker. File image/ReutersUnited States President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to do several things on his first day in the Oval Office at the White House on January 20, 2025.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Minhaz Merchant
BJP should focus on what it is doing right than what Nehru did wrongThe ruling party should rise above Nehruphobia and instead talk about its achievements in building infrastructure and reducing poverty
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Minhaz Merchant
Minhaz MerchantTIMESOFINDIA.COM Dec 11, 2024, 13:51 IST ISTDonald Trump’s pick to run the FBI has vowed to dismantle the deep state made up of faceless bureaucrats and agents who have corrupted US law enforcement. But it won’t be an easy jobNominated by US President-elect Donald Trump as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kashyap (Kash) Patel strikes fear — and revulsion — in America’s powerful investigative agency.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
firstpost.com | Minhaz Merchant
Islamists are back in Dhaka and calling the shots using Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as a fig leaf to turn Bangladesh into a bad copy of Pakistanread moreThe Islamists who deposed Sheikh Hasina had help from elements in Pakistan and the United States. Representational image. Source: REUTERS. The coup in Bangladesh, engineered by Islamist students, revived the ghost of East Pakistan that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had slayed in 1971 with the help of the Indian Army.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Minhaz Merchant
REPARATIONS IS A WORD Western leaders dread. But reparations for what, exactly? For the centuries-long transatlantic slave trade? For colonial plunder? For global pollution? All three, but the most recent call for reparations relates to the West’s role in causing the climate crisis.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
businessworld.in | Minhaz Merchant
A month before moving into the White House, United States President-elect Donald Trump has already issued several geopolitical threats. He has promised to slap 25 per cent duties on all imports from Mexico, Canada and China. Since Chinese goods are already subject to high US tariffs, the new duties will be on top of those. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was rattled enough to fly to Florida to explain to Trump that the number of illegal migrants crossing the Canada-US border was minuscule.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | S Prasannarajan |Rajeev Deshpande |Jyotsna Purandare |Minhaz Merchant
STORIES IN THIS ISSUE S Prasannarajan We read Alexei Navalny's Patriot at a time when the word has become an ideological marker Rajeev Deshpande Devendra Fadnavis’ return as Maharashtra chief minister is a remarkable comeback story that transforms the state’s political landscape Jyotsna Purandare Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena has passed into the hands of Eknath Shinde Minhaz Merchant The West must pay for the climate crisis Sudeep Paul Will Trump’s pick for FBI director be a reformer or a...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Minhaz Merchant
Minhaz MerchantTIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Nov 27, 2024, 21:16 IST ISTWhile the BJP learnt from its mistakes to bounce back in the Maharashtra assembly polls, the result is a personal setback for Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Rahul GandhiElections can have a sobering effect. The results of the 2024 Lok Sabha election in June brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down to earth. Congress leaders said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government wouldn’t last six months.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Minhaz Merchant
Minhaz MerchantTIMESOFINDIA.COM Nov 27, 2024, 12:57 IST ISTWhile the BJP learnt from its mistakes in the Lok Sabha polls to bounce back in Maharashtra, the result is a personal setback for Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Rahul GandhiElections can have a sobering effect. The results of the 2024 Lok Sabha election in June brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down to earth. Congress leaders said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government wouldn’t last six months.
