menu_open Columnists
Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

ThePrint

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

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.

previous day 5

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

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 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

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 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

A new Indian Islam must rise—and it must start by questioning the Muslimness of terrorists

After the Pahalgam attack, there has been a loud condemnation from the Muslim society. But it's too early to say that the ideological hegemony of...

07.05.2025 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Aurangzeb is politics, not history. Indian Muslims must bury his ghost

It is said that Aurangzeb was a man of his times. No, he wasn’t. He was a plain bigot and not the complex, nuanced character he is made out to be.

26.03.2025 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Imagine Muslims playing Holi on the way to namaz—why can’t this be India’s normal?

Indian Muslims have already been celebrating Holi and other Hindu festivals on social media. Why not make this virtual trend a ground reality?

13.03.2025 30

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Indian Muslims need freedom from ulema. A cleric can’t call Shami criminal for skipping roza

A cleric chastising Mohammad Shami for not fasting during Ramzan is less about religion and more about power theology and the confrontational ideology...

08.03.2025 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Halal certification is turning into a scam. It’s creating a Muslim-only economy

Why should everything be reduced to the binary of Halal and Haram? It’s pop Islam—faux piety, driven by pseudo-Islamic power theology that seeks...

03.02.2025 50

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Concealment can’t bring closure. Muslims must admit destruction of Hindu temples was wrong

If Muslims considered the destruction of temples bad, there should have been an elaborate and pervasive condemnation of it in their literary and...

05.12.2024 8

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Aligarh Muslim University was centre of Muslim politics. Then it became Muslim Politics itself

AMU’s Islam is more about politics than piety. Its 'minority' status has roots in a 'Muslim Vatican'.

08.11.2024 4

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Waqf Amendment Bill isn’t radical enough. Reinvent or wind up

The near total absence of any visible charity by Waqf should bring us to its real character and organisational structure.

18.10.2024 10

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Waqf is anti-Quran. Muslim elite used it to build political power

Waqf is rarely seen running charities because it has been more about building and maintaining the Muslim elite’s power than about charity.

14.08.2024 4

ThePrint

Ibn Khaldun Bharati