AUTHOR PROFILE OF Smita Mishra

For too long, organisations like the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and the Jamaat-e-Islami have thwarted every possibility of reform in the Muslim society, especially any reform that pertains to the womenfolk. As for the AIMPLB, its very inception ...

Sulking uncles may be a common element of Indian weddings but they are easily forgotten. People always go back with memories of a happy union. The Naraz Phuphas can join New India's grand march or become a footnote."Koi Naraz Phupha to ...

It was a beautiful winter evening in early December 1994, in a sleepy town close to the Bihar-Nepal border. I was studying for my college exams while a few staffers were chatting in the front verandah when the cook announced ‘Saheb ...

These days, both the Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the Congress are busy making 'degree' taunts at Narendra Modi. For Congress, it was a campaign pushed by its media department in response to the BJP's 'foreign intervention' attack on Rahul Gandhi. ...

Away from the loud headlines and the controversies building up by the hour, BJP has chalked out a detailed plan to reach out to minorities. This plan is already underway and spans many months right up to the next general elections ...

All through his walking campaign, Rahul Gandhi insisted that the Bharat Jodo Yatra was not a political one and it was not meant to win elections. Well, he was bang on. The results of the three North Eastern states declared on ...

Ever since Narendra Modi took up the mantle in 2014, there have been some perennial issues which never fade out from the headlines. The entire opposition (or most of it) coming together to challenge the hegemony of Modi and BJP is ...

Voters must remain vigilant as playing on the fault lines will only get worse New Delhi, Jan 25: The game plan to influence the next general election of India has started in full earnest. The BBC documentary is just the beginning. ...

Bihar minister's remarks on Ramcharitmanas are anything but 'critical analysis' because he wouldn't dare the same with any other religion. My grandfather, whom we all lovingly called Baba, passed away many years ago. But till he was alive, his favourite words ...

Rahul Yatra which is touted as a spiritual exercise aimed at touching the grassroots and covering the length and breadth of this diverse nation, much like a discovery, gets reduced to whether the protagonist is wearing a jacket or not. Rahul ...

How editors of the self appointed news crusader portal threw every newsroom principle to the winds. The Wire-Meta controversy seems to be a tale of lies, deception and brazen fabrication followed by betrayal. At least from what has come out in ...

Just as the snow capped peaks, valleys, meadows of J&K go together with Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine and Shri Amarnath Yatra, similarly the extra ordinarily fulfilling experience of visiting temples in Kerala can go together with the pristine beach and backwaters' ...