Opinions

• Should the JNU be turned into a museum for select specimens?

  Feb 26, 2017

  The Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi is a site of great symbolic violence, though it might appear peaceful to the casual observer. JNU once again is in the eye of a storm. The administration block has been under siege. The unilateral im...

• Hindutva march deeply disturbs Indian Muslims

  Feb 26, 2017

  It is distressing that Hinduism’s great eclecticism which propagates tolerance, pluralism, inclusiveness and a live and let live ethos has ceded ground to Hindutva.

• Sufism is the kernel of Islam

  By Sumit Paul

  Feb 23, 2017

    The recent bombing by a female IS supporter of the great Sufi shrine Sehwan Sharif in Pakistan, killing 72 innocent Sufis and injuring 150, is a stark sign that Sufi Islam is increasingly at the receiving end of religious fundamental...

• Why Are American Muslims Not Protesting?

  By Kaleem Kawaja

  Feb 21, 2017

  This obviously brings up the question as to what is holding back the major Muslim organizations and their predominantly male leadership from taking lead in both types of rallies; the ones against the extreme right wing policies of President Trump ...

• Education among Muslim Women

  Feb 20, 2017

  History, with all its misgivings and qualms, has always fascinated me, specifically when it is beheld for gender equality and justice. When I first lay my hands on the history of progression of human civilization not so long back, it was specif...

• How to protect and promote harmony of religions in India

  Feb 03, 2017

  In the foreseeable future, religion will be a major source of conflict within and among nations. The possibilities of conflict are greater in India where different cultures and religions do meet. However, such clashes can be prevented if...

• Hype about Muslim Vote in India

  By Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Jan 24, 2017

  Muslims are active participants in the Indian political process, from casting votes to holding high positions. But has religion always been the only or primary factor influencing their decision to vote?

• Indian Muslims and forthcoming elections: “Hindustan ka Mussalman kisi kay baap ya daada ki jaaidaad nahin hai”

  By Kaleem Kawaja

  Jan 08, 2017

  Year after year the Muslim voters remained the vote banks of otherwise secular parties and remained afraid of demanding equitable development for their community. But starting in 2010 the Muslim voters adopted a pattern of strategic voting.

• Musings on a new year

  By Sumit Paul

  Jan 04, 2017

  'Welcome anything that's new.' Years ago I read this message on the back of a car in London. The words got embossed on the palimpsest of my mind. Human mind is always intrigued by the idea of newness. It gets excited as well as scar...

• Relegating Ahmad Faraz to a Facebook poet

  By Sumit Paul

  Jan 02, 2017

  Ahmad Faraz is one of the greatest poets of modern era and is bracketed with Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, known as the 3 Fs of Urdu poetry. While it's laudable that more and more readers, nay dilettantes, are becoming aware of...

• Trolling Syndrome – Not Just a Namesake

  Dec 31, 2016

  So, baby Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi will probably go down the annals of “troll history” as being the youngest person to land in a controversy. His offense – Ah just a namesake! So, what’s in a name, by the way? Ea...

• United we stand #2

  By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

  Dec 30, 2016

  Racial memory and historical antagonism are part of human life, but this does not have to determine all of our actions. We cannot live in the past, and cannot attribute all current developments to the past.

• Mirza Ghalib was an iconoclastic believer

  By Sumit Paul

  Dec 27, 2016

  Ghalib was a radical believer who went beyond the precincts of faith and worshipped, if he ever did, Allah in his own inimitable and impudent manner.

• Triple Talaq and UCC: Treading the Devious Path

  Dec 23, 2016

  We would be dwindling in the decoy of treading a devious path if we do not attempt to accentuate and establish the damage that male chauvinism has begotten today’s familial existence.

• From King Faisal to Bashar al-Assad: Story of Muslims Rulers turned villains by International Players

  By Dr. Javed Jamil

  Dec 23, 2016

  It is high time the Islamic World recognised the West’s strategy of turning Muslim heroes into villains. Muslims will have to reject the supremacy of the Big Powers.

• National Anthem: Can Compulsions Elicit Respect?

  By Ram Puniyani

  Dec 19, 2016

  Ultra nationalism, while operating in the broad democratic setup, is an attempt to instill the values of dictatorial State.

• What India can learn from Australia on domestic violence?

  May 23, 2016

  One social parallel that can be drawn between two dissimilar countries like India and Australia is rampant family violence in both the countries. As Australia is fighting the menace vigorously, India can learn a few  lessons from it, givin...

• Beef, Sufi Conference, Right Wing murderers, Kashmir — Signs of the Times

  By Humra Quraishi

  Mar 24, 2016

  Today, in 2016, young Kashmiri Muslims are getting targeted in several towns and cities of this country. Why are we silent on this? Why don’t we speak out? Why don’t the politicians take a stand on this?

• Modi's statesman like Lahore trip: Must create mirror image at home

  By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood

  Dec 26, 2015

  Narendra Modi's stopover in Lahore to greet Nawaz Sharief's family is a diplomatic gesture displaying high form of statesmanship. Having now rubbed shoulders with almost every world leader of good significance and riding his aspirations...

• The fascist onslaught on the idea of India and the secular backlash

  By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam

  Oct 17, 2015

  On October 12, Sudheendra Kulkarni, journalist and aide to former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, was forcibly painted black by Shiv Sena goons for attending the release ceremony of Pakistani politician Khurshid Kasuri’s book. Kulkar...