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CJP protest is a turning point for Indian Muslims. Speak as citizens, not as a religious bloc

Political quietude is the ethic that befits a minority. We may call it the Minority Dharma.

06.08.2026 20

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Muslims aren’t panicking over BJP’s 2026 assembly polls results—Liberals are

Under the BJP’s rule, the lot of the Muslim has been more or less the same as that of Hindus across every comparable category and socio-economic...

15.05.2026 40

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Dara Shukoh is India’s biggest ‘what-if’. A Mughal ‘Ram Raj’ that could have been

On Dara Shukoh's 411th birth anniversary, the loss of his dream of an Indic Mughal empire continues to haunt India.

20.03.2026 40

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Indian Muslims must stop being delusional about the Global Ummah

The recent events in Gaza and Iran have exposed the hollowness of the idea of Global Islam.

13.03.2026 80

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Vande Mataram was anti-British. Here’s how it became ‘anti-Muslim’

'Mataram' for Mother India has a beautiful term in Urdu — Madar-e-Watan, or the motherland. No Muslim ever found this concept contrary to Islam.

12.12.2025 50

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Dr Umar Nabi has shattered a popular misconception about terrorism

The good and the bad in the Islamic tradition are so intertwined that there is no good Islam to fight the bad one. The way out is not the true Islam,...

21.11.2025 60

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Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

Zohran Mamdani says he is not apologetic about being a Muslim. He shouldn’t be. But should he be assertive about it?

07.11.2025 40

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‘I Love Muhammad’ is cheap politicisation of Prophet’s name. Don’t drag it to the streets

Muslims would do better to think about whether the public performance of religion strengthens or weakens secularism—the idea in which they have the...

08.10.2025 30

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Muslims never held Akbar in high regard. Hindus made him ‘Great’

Akbar practiced what he preached. His appreciation of Hinduism and other non-Islamic religions was evident as much in his statesmanship as in his...

28.07.2025 30

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Indian Muslims must face the truth—Muslim countries don’t care about them

There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your Muslimness within Indianness.

04.07.2025 40

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Bakrid needs a makeover. India’s poor need laptops & AC, not gift of meat

Now that people don’t really look forward to a gift of meat from a wealthy neighbour, does the purported rationale of feeding the poor still...

05.06.2025 40

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Pakistan needs a different kind of Islam. One that doesn’t hate Hinduism

Those who fabricated the Hadees about the so-called Ghazwa-e-Hind have sinned against humanity. It is the false ideology of a false political project.

19.05.2025 50

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