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Shehzad Poonawalla

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Indian Muslims: Trapped between the devil and the deep sea
Rediff.com27 Jan 2016

'If chutzpah nationalists brought the Babri Masjid down, chutzpah secularists did...

Whose year will it be in 2016?
Rediff.com31 Dec 2015

Whose political stock is likely to rise and which leader is most likely to make an...

In 18 months Modi spent 2.5 months out of India
Rediff.com13 Nov 2015

Do Modi's foreign visits actually serve India or they nothing more than expensive tools...

Time for Modi to grow up
Rediff.com9 Nov 2015

'The BJP has not moved on since its 2014 victory. There is nothing new to offer. There...

Dadri to Faridabad: Is BJP encouraging India's Ku Klux Klan?
Rediff.com28 Oct 2015

'It would be a folly on our part to believe that the KKK or its Indian version exists...

Dadri Lynching: Time for a Mann Ki Baat, Mr Prime Minister!
Rediff.com3 Oct 2015

'Mohammad Akhlaq's death isn't only about a Muslim being killed out of sheer communal...

India's elected a Trump, will US now get a Modi?
Rediff.com24 Sep 2015

'In May 2014, India got its Donald Trump equivalent as prime minister in the form of...

If Burdwan blast was an act of terror, why not Jhabua?
Rediff.com16 Sep 2015

If terror indeed has no religion, no partisan affiliations, and if the government,...

What if it was Haider Pathan and not Hardik Patel?
Rediff.com26 Aug 2015

'If Haider petitions the court and the government for legitimate rights it is called...

Why Modi's progress card on I-Day speech 2014 reads 'fail'
Rediff.com10 Aug 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden speech from Red Fort last Independence Day...

How is attending an iftar appeasement?
Rediff.com16 Jul 2015

'The reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have attended the President's iftar...

Only because his name is Hamid Ansari?
Rediff.com23 Jun 2015

Just like with millions of Indian Muslims, even the vice president of India has been...

Modi and the art of propaganda 101
Rediff.com20 May 2015

From France to Canada, from Japan to South Korea, all of Modi's barbs came in front of...

Rahul as PM in 2019? Why ever not!
Rediff.com18 May 2015

What is the road ahead for Rahul Gandhi? Shehzad Poonawalla offers a blueprint.

China is moving away from co-operation to confrontation
Rediff.com13 May 2015

Right from conducting nuclear deterrence patrols in 2015 to its destructive space...