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Neither Hindu right nor conservative Muslim clerics have a coherent case against Aamir Khan's marriage to Gauri Spratt. But that hasn't stopped either...
The relationship between the Left and Islamist movements resembles a toxic love story. We know how it ended in Iran.
The heatwave has somehow turned into another chapter in the long-running cultural rivalry between Europe and America.
I find it hard to take Ilhan Omar’s language of genocide seriously. Like many Western voices, she speaks with great confidence about a society she...
Study-abroad firms are focused on enrolling more students, not helping them plan long-term career prospects. And universities market opportunities...
Elon Musk is worried about India’s falling birth rate. For most of us, it’s evidence that goals India spent decades pursuing—education, family...
It feels that different responses to tragedies can not be shaped by what happened, but by who was involved and what political story can be built...
The real question is not whether India needs a UCC. The question is: what kind of UCC does India want to build?
Welfare can quickly turn into a game of precarious religious balancing. It is a dangerous direction for a republic built on equal citizenship.
With BJP in power at the Centre and in Bengal, there's a sense that India’s eastern policy will favour India’s interest and leave less room for...
Why does a party that presents itself as secular begin to feel a sense of entitlement over Muslim votes? And why do they not have the same sentiment...
Between a 'mild' chicken tikka and the cinematic lanes of Edinburgh, a blueprint for saving Jaipur's UNESCO World Heritage status can be found.
I often found myself confused by the idea of the 'Muslim vote' being treated as a single, fixed bloc—almost as if everyone already knew whom to vote...
The reaction often moves quickly toward dismissing such incidents as conspiracies against the community. Why can we not choose another way to respond?
The funniest part about pig politicisation is that it is based on ignorance. Hindus and Christians can eat all the pork they want and keep pigs as...
International news media calling Asiya Andrabi a defender of women’s rights shows how narratives are constructed and what they choose to omit.
It was twisted into an act of 'Muslim domination' of the public space. Commenters were quick to speculate that this was a show of force.
Many Muslim communities, Shia and Sunni alike, often respond through a religious lens. That lens slips into a tribal thinking, shaped by ideas like...
The selection of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan is curious. Especially when Pakistanis currently constitute one of the largest groups...
AI amplifies our existing prejudices. It feeds us content that confirms what we already believe. It sharpens anger, rewards extremity, and sidelines...
When I choose to be a dissenting voice within my community, or when I write about atrocities faced by minorities in Muslim-majority countries, people...
As someone who has spent years speaking about caste, hierarchy, and inequality within Muslim societies, I cannot ignore the pattern anymore.
This is a case of conflict within a multicultural society. The question is, how can minority practices that offend majority sensibility coexist in the...
What is often forgotten is that resistance to this control began immediately. The fight against theocratic rule started the moment mandatory veiling...
Mustafizur Rahman was not representing Bangladesh; he was representing Kolkata. Singling him out simply because of his nationality shows a selective...
The violence, as seen in a Bareilly birthday party, creates fear through moral policing. It redraws the boundaries of how one dresses, who one...
The acceptance that this is just how things are now is worrying. That temperatures will rise, water will run out, air will choke us—and we will...
Without falling into a cycle of hatred, we can name what we are confronting — the ideological framework of ISIS for which the world is divided into...
What becomes obvious is what many of us knew all along: degrees won’t save you from racism, and the “model minority” tag definitely won’t.
When a BJP leader claims that a breakfast menu has ‘hurt sentiments’, it takes me back to the politics I grew up watching — where every second...
From science to sports, cinema to bureaucracy, the armed forces to the courts, the community has been stitched into every important field of national...
Talaq-e-hasan is often described as the “preferable” method because it stretches the process for three months, but it is not fair. It remains a...
If insisting that women be treated with equal dignity is 'targeting a community', then perhaps every community ought to be 'targeted' until equality...
India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.
Naysayers are employing the same old playbook against the outsider, fear dressed up as caution, prejudice disguised as concern.
Strangely enough, halal certification is perfectly fine when it comes to exports. Why that is, no one seems to know.
The reverence and applause for the Taliban, a regime that denies Afghan women education, their freedom, and the very right to exist with dignity, was...
The contrast between Kashmir and PoK is impossible to ignore. One side protests for food and electricity, while the other talks about growth and...
I never imagined that the Prophet's birthday would become the centre of controversy because of a simple message of devotion.
Conservative clerics warned Muslims against garba as impermissible; now Hindu right-wing groups call their presence provocative—different reasons,...
When the talk is about illegal immigrants in Assam, why does the imagination of the BJP immediately stop at Muslims? Even the NRC data tells a...
How is it that so many men from the same background could be involved—or remain silent? The answer is not comfortable. It lies in the moral codes...
Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.
Nikki Bhati’s death in Greater Noida shows that law alone can’t protect women. The absence of autonomy is the real problem.
Pakistan’s tragedy is not just in losing its women’s potential, but in refusing to even see that loss as its own destruction.
What’s needed now is a policy-based solution. The situation cannot remain suspended between denial and inaction—it has already cost lives and money.
There’s a subtle radicalism in a name like Siraj being spoken with national pride. His success is read as proof that someone from a working-class,...
A section of Muslims has started to argue that the reforms in Saudi Arabia do not necessarily reflect the teachings of Islam.
The UK’s growing focus on high-skilled work visas shows a clear intent to attract only the brightest minds—a kind of ‘brain drain’, but on the...
Social media user were seen justifying the murder, citing “the other side” or alleging Radhika was with a Muslim man. It normalises a father's...
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