Saba Naqvi

5 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

The violence in West Bengal after the passage of the waqf law and potential disputes in Tamil Nadu over claims by the State Waqf Board are both flashpoints in the two States where Assembly elections are due next year and the BJP is not in power. Anything that dispossesses and disempowers India’s Muslim minority is believed to satisfy the primal urges of the ruling BJP-RSS cadre.

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy

At a time when we are fighting for the right to free speech, it may be worth our time to look at the economic rights of the unlettered in a digitised world. Bundi Munda, a tribal lady from Jharkhand, has been a part of my home for 26 years. She has raised my daughter, cooks like a master chef occasionally, and plans frequently to retire to her village in Jharkhand, where her bank account should have her life savings that currently add up to quite a tidy sum.

4 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Mihir Godbole |Saba Naqvi |Mridula Chari |Vaishna Roy

The grey wolf is many things to many people in India. For ecologists and conservationists, it is an endangered apex predator that needs to be protected. For historians and anthropologists, iconography associated with wolves usually represents the untameable forces of nature. For pastoralists and livestock keepers, the wolf is a sworn enemy. For the rest of us, the lore of the big bad wolf is etched into our imagination by tales we read as children.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vaishna Roy

It is hard to believe there is something in common between a stated desire to demolish the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Maharashtra and an education policy that is seen by critics as a means to promote Hindi in Tamil Nadu and other non-Hindi-speaking States.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Saba Naqvi |Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy

EntitlementRumaan AlamBloomsbury IndiaRs. 799True to the title, the novel is an exploration of the lives of the world’s richest one per cent. Described as “an engrossing and resonant tale of money, morality and madness”. ___A Pulp Fiction TextbookV.M. DevadasHachette IndiaRs.399A book about a series of gruesome deaths, the inventive book plants clues and reveals the killer through exercises, drawings, and questionnaires.