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Monday, June 25, 2018, 1:41 PM   |   e-paper HOME PUNE MAHARASHTRA ART AND CULTURE SPORTS BUSINESS WORLD OPINION Home   Opinion   United oppn euphoria: Proceed with caution      United oppn euphoria: Proceed with caution Camil Parkhe Saturday, 23 June 2018     goo.gl/GZEVMq  It is true that for the first time in recent years, leaders of various main political parties across various states who normally do not even see eye to eye, had shared a common platform at the Bengaluru oath taking ceremony. The body language of these leaders including Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Bahujan Samaj Party’s Mayawati, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, Telugu Desam Party’s N Chandrababu Naidu, Trinamool Congress’ Mamata Banerjee, and CPM’s Sitaram Yechuri revealed a bonh...

Monday, March 12, 2018, 7:04 PM   |   e-paper HOME PUNE MAHARASHTRA ART AND CULTURE SPORTS BUSINESS WORLD OPINION Home   Art & Culture   A muslim in the public discourse A muslim in the public discourse Camil Parkhe   Saturday, 10 March 2018      goo.gl/pjEbYk AZADI’S DAUGHTER: Being a secular Muslim in India Author:  Seena Mustafa Publisher:  Speaking Tiger Pages:  185 Price:  Rs 299 In the recent past, India has witnessed political and social turmoil on many occasions. For instance, the constitutional amendment in 1985 made by the then Prime Minister following the Supreme Court judgement in the Shah Bano case; or the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992; communal rioting in Mumbai and Gujarat 1993 and 2002 — shocked the secular p...

India will remember the legacy of Sonia Gandhi Camil Parkhe goo.gl/zcNLGJ      Saturday, 16 December 2017 After the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi, for over seven years, Sonia Gandhi had refused to take over the reigns of the Indian National Congress. This was also the period when for the first time in many decades that no member of the Nehru-Gandhi family was not associated with the Congress Party. Sonia Gandhi stepped into politics and took over the party’s reigns only when the Congress was ousted from power at the Centre and there seemed no other leader who could rejuvenate the party. At that time, the fortunes of the Congress had nosedived. After the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi, for over seven years, Sonia Gandhi had refused to take over the reigns of the Indian National Congress. This was also the period when for the first time in many dec...