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Saturday, November 15, 2025
TopicAshraaf

Topic: Ashraaf

Indian Muslim leaders must drop Hezbollah solidarity. Put country before Muslimness

The India Islamic Cultural Centre found it appropriate to honour a leader of Hezbollah—which is officially designated as a terrorist organisation even by several Arab countries.

Muslims need a Ram Mohan Roy or Ambedkar of their own. Ditch Hindu left and liberal leaders

The patron-client relationship between Hindu liberals and Muslim communalists is the greatest impediment to the secularisation, mainstreaming, and progress of Muslims.

Indian Muslims need real leaders, not divisive ones. Pasmandas offer future-positive vision

Ashraaf leaders seem indifferent to the concerns of Pasmanda Muslims. Instead, they exploit this marginalised group for electoral gains, trapping them in a narrative of perpetual victimhood.

UCC will prevent the ‘Ashraafisation’ of Islam and give Pasmandas a seat at the table

UCC doesn't only regulate or reform women’s rights, it can be a significant tool to prevent further marginalisation of the marginalised within minority communities.

Urdu literature has ignored Dalit Muslims. Pasmandas must own the language

Ashraaf Muslims never truly included Pasmandas in Urdu literature. It's still the language of the elite.

AMU can be Indian National University, not remain Allah Miyan’s University in Ashraaf hands

To better integrate Indian Muslims, the totem of separatism, Muslim Personal Law, needs radical reform. And the process must begin with an overhaul of AMU’s power structure.

Indian Muslims aren’t saying Uniform Civil Code is bad. It’s just that Ashraafs have a problem

Painting UCC as a plot against Islam happens at the behest of the 'upper-class' Ashraafs currently leading the Muslim society. Reality is different.

Pasmandas are the real minorities deprived of welfare. Muslims aren’t homogenous

Taking India's largest ‘minority’ as homogenous is inappropriate. Muslims face many problems that need to be understood and resolved.

Pasmanda Muslims are using social media to counter those defending the medieval Taliban

Those associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband and the Taliban may not have any direct links but their ideological and historical linkages cannot be ruled out.

On Camera

Bihar is now BJP’s responsibility. Double-engine governance must bring progress

The opposition was unable to erase the image of 'Jungle Raj' and leadership-by-birth remarks. Rahul Gandhi's 'vote chori' campaign added more trouble.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.