Hindutva has pushed once-visible Muslim clergy behind scenes & underlined its credibility crisis. Ordinary Muslims increasingly feel they achieved little by posing faith in Ulema.
Some experts say the criticism sheds light on divisions within religious authorities, but doubt whether it will be 'game-changing'. Others say silence of other clerics is significant too.
In a video, an elderly Muslim man is seen dragging an unconscious woman to a dark room. On being confronted by the cameraperson, he says he is ‘treating the woman’ in the ‘name of god’.
Anti-blasphemy campaign in India isn’t being led by clerics. And accused in Udaipur and Amravati killings didn't have any religious education or ties to right-wing organisations.
In ‘Indian Muslims’, K. Rahman Khan writes that more Muslim religious leaders, especially younger ones, need to promote the message of genuine spirituality.
Clerics deciding PTI school curriculum will magnify body-related taboos. Pakistan is now on track to overtake Saudi Arabia as most stoutly conservative.
Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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