Indian Muslims

Challenges within: Examining extremism and identity crisis in India's second largest majority

In essence, the crux of the matter lies in the understanding that Indian Muslims ought to derive their heritage and pride from a profound connection to the land rather than affiliations with foreign cultures like Arabs, Turks, Persians or Mughals

India must scrap the term ‘minorities’, redraw list with only tiny, needy groups

Parliament needs to scrap the term ‘minority’ and, after assessing numbers and vulnerabilities, clearly define special categories who need the State’s handholding

Orwellian reality check for India: An Islamic Republic or a Hindu Rashtra?

Over a lakh Hindu temples being controlled by the State, more than 10,000 Hindu-run schools closed due to RTE Act; 77% of Delhi is being claimed to be Waqf land: Welcome to the ‘Islamic Republic of India’

Is Barack Obama’s comment about Muslims in India a case of ‘look who’s talking’?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lashed out at Barack Obama over his recent remarks about the protection of Muslims in India. The former US president's comments came while Prime Minister Modi, his ‘good friend’, was in America for his first state visit

Why it’s time to call out Congress double-speak over secularism

The Congress-style communalism versus secularism debate has had its day

Rahul Gandhi shoots himself in foot again, says Indian Muslims in same situation as Dalits in 80s when Cong was in power

Rahul Gandhi claimed, 'What is happening to the Muslim community in India today, happened to the Dalit community in 1980s'

BBC documentary 'The Modi Question': Another salvo of bias, hateful propaganda and colonial hangover

For the West to engage with India, it must do so on equal footing and show respect for its culture, religions, state, and democracy

View From Abroad | Another index gone wrong: How Pew’s Religious Freedom Rankings misrepresent India

Circumstantial evidence suggests that an ‘unholy alliance’ of international Islamists and Christian missionaries have weaponised the American international religious freedom reporting system against India

Why Muslim rulers and ulema didn’t confront the caste issue

Muslim rulers and ulema couldn’t have confronted the caste inequality since Islam as a religion of equality is as much a new narrative as it being a religion of peace. Historically it’s been about supremacy and conquest

Meet the Hussaini Brahmins, Hindus who observe Muharram alongside Muslims

Hussaini Brahmins isn't a name that immediately rings a bell for many Indians.