Balbir Punj – Kreately

Academic Freedom Is Not Absolute

Writer – Balbir Punj The trigger for the present debate was provided by the resignations of two professors— Sabyasachi Das and Pulapre Balakrishnan, from...

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Atiq’s Life & Death – Saga Of System’s Failures

Writer- Balbir Punj The recent gunning down of gangster turned politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody by three assailants and...

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Who is responsible for Hindu-Muslim Tensions?

Writer – Balbir Punj One of the myths in circulation, at home and abroad is: Hindu-Muslim tensions have escalated in India following Modi’s ascend...

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The right to propagate religion cannot lead to undermining of faiths.

Writer – Balbir Punj Even as the vexed issue of religious conversions is being heard in the Supreme Court (SC), it continues to roil...

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Christian—Tribal Conflict Has Old Fault Lines

Even as the vexed issue of conversions, from one faith to another, is being argued in the Indian law courts, it continues to leave...

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Fall & Fall of Pakistan

Writer – Balbir Punj Pakistan is in deep trouble. It’s reaping what it had sown. For decades, it has exported terror to India, as...

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Dragon on Rampage.

November 20 is one of the blackest days in Independent India’s chequered history. On this fateful day in 1962, China declared a unilateral cease-fire,...

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NONE KNOWS WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN

message: Ironically we celebrate Christ’s birthday, without knowing the date of His birth for sure. The holy Bible is silent about the timing of...