Javed Gaya's Heartland Rising: The Making of Majoritarian India was launched at IIC, with Salman Khurshid, Apoorvanand and advocate Malavika Rajkotia in conversation.
The attack on a Muslim school principal for teaching Urdu ‘to non-Muslims’ should serve as a wake-up call for those who assumed they were insulated from such violence.
I find it hard to take Ilhan Omar’s language of genocide seriously. Like many Western voices, she speaks with great confidence about a society she understands only from a distance.
These elections mark completion of BJP-secular party divide purely on Hindu-Muslim basis. BJP’s rivals are increasingly looking like Muslim parties though their leaders are all Hindus.
After more than seven years of pendency, the Supreme Court is set to hear a PIL regarding a complete ban on Female Genital Mutilation within the Dawoodi Bohra community.
Anyone interested in the truth can easily look up the many instances—all those events from Kashmir to Lucknow—where Indian Muslims were at the forefront, raising their voices against terror attacks.
On 17 February, the Mahayuti government issued a fresh government resolution formally cancelling all earlier decisions & circulars linked to the 2014 Muslim quota framework.
In interview with ThePrint, RS MP says new policy will incentivise industry. Bengal’s industrialisation hit pause after 2008 Singur land agitation drove away Tata Nano project.
Ministry of Defence says that there is no evidence that sensitive data or military systems had been transmitted abroad via Chinese spy cameras in K3 surveillance drones.
It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.
Muslims have lost their moral standing as far as Indian politics is concerned.
I will illustrate with the example of West Bengal. Bengal started off as a Congress stronghold – the legendary CM Dr. BC Roy was from Congress. Successive Congress governments administered the state quite efficiently. Muslims threw in their lot with the Congress – the imams and maulanas openly exhorted Muslims to vote en masse for the Congress. And the Muslim masses obliged.
After that came the communist government under Jyoti Basu. Mind you, the entire Naxalite movement was basically a Hindu movement with the leaders drawn from the elite classes and castes. Muslims despised the communists as ‘people who don’t believe in God’. All along, they detested the communists during their period of struggle against the Congress government and were willing participants in the state action to crush Naxalite movement. The bloddy crackdown under SS Ray found Muslims as eager volunteers and informants.
Once the communists came to power, overnight the Bengali Muslims changed his political allegiance. He became a devout communist – and disavowed his former dedication and love for Congress. All the imams and maulanas swore allegiance to the communists now and they became the Left’s core votebank.
Now, when Mamata Banerjee dethroned the CPM in 2011, overnight the Muslim masses turned into TMC supporters. They vehemently disavowed their support for CPM and their long standing association with communism – senior leaders like Rezzak Molla joined TMC within a few days. The imams and maulanas called on the Muslim masses to vote en bloc for TMC and they became TMC’s votebank now. Overnight, they changed allegiances and became devout TMC supporters.
Now these things are not lost on anybody. Anyone can observe the pattern and think for himself what it means.
Muslims have lost their moral standing as far as Indian politics is concerned.
I will illustrate with the example of West Bengal. Bengal started off as a Congress stronghold – the legendary CM Dr. BC Roy was from Congress. Successive Congress governments administered the state quite efficiently. Muslims threw in their lot with the Congress – the imams and maulanas openly exhorted Muslims to vote en masse for the Congress. And the Muslim masses obliged.
After that came the communist government under Jyoti Basu. Mind you, the entire Naxalite movement was basically a Hindu movement with the leaders drawn from the elite classes and castes. Muslims despised the communists as ‘people who don’t believe in God’. All along, they detested the communists during their period of struggle against the Congress government and were willing participants in the state action to crush Naxalite movement. The bloddy crackdown under SS Ray found Muslims as eager volunteers and informants.
Once the communists came to power, overnight the Bengali Muslims changed his political allegiance. He became a devout communist – and disavowed his former dedication and love for Congress. All the imams and maulanas swore allegiance to the communists now and they became the Left’s core votebank.
Now, when Mamata Banerjee dethroned the CPM in 2011, overnight the Muslim masses turned into TMC supporters. They vehemently disavowed their support for CPM and their long standing association with communism – senior leaders like Rezzak Molla joined TMC within a few days. The imams and maulanas called on the Muslim masses to vote en bloc for TMC and they became TMC’s votebank now. Overnight, they changed allegiances and became devout TMC supporters.
Now these things are not lost on anybody. Anyone can observe the pattern and think for himself what it means.