TO VEIL OR NOT TO VEIL
Don't ban the burkha. Question it

 

Cover Story

-- Don’t ban the burkha. Question it.

-- Argument in verse 

-- Burkha vs bikini 0

-- Truth uncovered 0

-- Nothing but tradition

-- Rain on my face

-- Fabric of choice

-- A black cocoon

-- Purdah in paradise

 

Comment
Excessive forces

 

 

Editorial

Battle of the burkha

 

Forum

-- Iran’s human rights test

-- ‘It’s now all of Iran…’

-- ‘The most amazing thing is that so many people

     came out into the streets to protest’

--  Faulty arithmetic

 

Document
A new beginning

 

Observatory

-- The myth of a ‘Muslim world’

-- The tone and the music

-- Reinforcing presumed religious identities

-- To heal the wounds of centuries

-- The ‘important’ Muslims

 

Tribute

-- The essence of theatre

-- The loss of a legend

-- Tyeb Mehta – A tribute