Democracy Too Crucial To Be Left People: Happy Independence Day, USA!

By SARAH WILLIAMS | INNLIVE

On the eve of 4 July, American Independence Day, Brexit has been a blow to comfortable western certainties: a significant trope of the post-Second World War Bretton Woods agreement and the related Washington consensus has been damaged.

This is the dictum that democracy and 'free and fair elections' are self-evident universal goods, and that the western practice of these is the best, if not only, method. Now, not only are some people questioning direct democracy, but the very concept of democracy.

Traditional Touches: For 18 Years, This Man Has Been Waking Mumbaikars Up At Ramzan Dawn

By NISHI KHAN | INNLIVE

The 56-year-old walks seven kilometres, reminding residents to get up for the meal before the roza.

It’s 3 am in Mumbai. Much of the city that claims never to sleep is silent and resting, save for one corner in the south. Under the massive JJ Flyover, in an area called Mohammad Ali Road, the streets are humming and throbbing. All kinds of meats and sweets are being made at roadside stalls. Not a single restaurant is shuttered. Teenagers, sometimes four to a bike, whiz around. Little children play cricket in the traffic-free narrow lanes.

Modi's Cabinet Reshuffle: With 'Big Four' Immune, Will The Exercise Be Purely Cosmetic?.

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

With eyes on Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet reshuffle on July 5,  is expected to factor in the BJP's political strategy in Uttar Pradesh. Some new ministers will take oath at about 11 am at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and sources told INNLIVEat least two more faces from Uttar Pradesh may join the Cabinet.

No End For 'Water War' Of Telangana And Andhra Pradesh, But Can They Win The Battle?

By RADHAKRISHNA | INNLIVE

Several irrigation projects in both states are stuck over disagreements on water-sharing, even as drought-like conditions persist year after year.

Late in May, tensions erupted once again in Andhra Pradesh’s Rayalaseema region over the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, an inter-state barrage to supply water to Andhra, Karnataka and Telangana.

Farmers from Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool – one of four districts that form the water-starved Rayalaseema – are up in arms against those in neighbouring Mahabubnagar in Telangana, both of which are fed by the irrigation project.

'Rustom' Trailer Shows Why This Bollywood Film Is Watch Worthy?

By RAMAN KAPOOR | INNLIVE

After giving a lot of silly films, Akshay Kumar is back in a role that is already blowing our mind. The Khiladi Kumar’s role as Rustom Pavri in the trailer of his upcoming Bollywood film Rustom is quite a bomb!

The film is based on the infamous Nanavati case where 3 bullets moved not just the people involved but also the entire nation. The case still is a mystery in itself as it keeps us guessing over so many things.

A real life story, the film is based on the basic concept – Love, Sex aur Dhoka where the husband kills the wife’s lover. However, the twist in the tale is that the murderer becomes a victim and gets the sympathy of the entire nation.

Indian Muslims Battle Hostile Attitudes As 'Islamic State' Seeks To Spread Tentacles

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Midnight knocks are not alien to 35-year-old Mohammed Maqueemuddin Yasir. Having spent over four years in Indore jail till September 2012, on charges of having helped a SIMI leader from Karnataka, acquittal from the lower court has not meant freedom from the suspicious gaze of the security agencies.

Being the son of Maulana Naseeruddin, a feisty cleric in Hyderabad, means that in the police book, Yasir is a radicalised youth, with many shades of grey, if not black. In his sermons, the 66-year-old Maulana exhorts the Muslims to adopt an eye for an eye approach against aggressive Hindutva. He spent five years between 2004 and 2009 in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, accused of plotting to kill Haren Pandya and Narendra Modi. 

Deep Research & Study: What Helps Some With Troubled Childhoods Grow Into Well-Adjusted Adults?

By SARAH WILLIAMS | INNLIVE

Life stories of children – from 1950s Hawaii to the orphanages of Romania – could help understand how some do so well despite early adversity.

The landscape of the Hawaiian islands is as idyllic as a postcard: long, sandy beaches, hibiscus flowers, clear waters of tropical fish and coral reefs. When you arrive at the airport the air is warm and ukulele music is piped out at you. Flower garlands are for sale.

The Forgotten Story Of Hashimpura, May 22, 1987: One Of India’s Biggest 'Custodial Killings'

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE 

‘PAC personnel had rounded up dozens of Muslims from riot-torn Meerut and had killed them in cold blood.’

Time heals, indeed, but sometimes it drags some dark nightmares from the recesses of our past into the present; nightmares whose repercussions are felt in the future too. Still weighing heavy on my conscience is that horrifying night of 22 May in the humid summer of 1987. And the subsequent days, similarly, are etched in my memory like as if on stone – it was something that overpowered the cop in me. The Hashimpura experience continues to torment me.