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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicIndian Muslims

Topic: Indian Muslims

Ordinance, elections & lapse: Why Maharashtra’s 5% reservation for Muslim groups never made it to law

On 17 February, the Mahayuti government issued a fresh government resolution formally cancelling all earlier decisions & circulars linked to the 2014 Muslim quota framework.

BJP leadership told Assam unit to kill Himanta shooting video. Fired co-convenor hails Right Wing support

The AI-generated video showed Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma shooting at a photograph of two people in skull caps, one of them being state Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi.

‘Emergence of Muslim parties not a healthy trend for India,’ says former V-P Hamid Ansari

Discussing his new book ‘Arguably Contentious: Thoughts on a Divided World’ with ThePrint, Ansari also weighed in on parliamentary conduct, Palestine issue & Donald Trump.

‘This is not Kashmir’: Assault on teen shawl seller in Uttarakhand started with ‘where are you from’

Alarm bells are ringing after two brothers were assaulted in the Vikasnagar area of Dehradun Wednesday upon revealing their Kashmiri Muslim identity to a shopkeeper.

Muslim objections to Vande Mataram are about faith, not rejection of India

Ibn Khaldun Bharati’s core claim—that Muslim resistance to ‘Vande Mataram’ reflects an unwillingness to merge into an “organic whole” with Hindus—ignores both historical context and religious concerns.

Vande Mataram was anti-British. Here’s how it became ‘anti-Muslim’

'Mataram' for Mother India has a beautiful term in Urdu — Madar-e-Watan, or the motherland. No Muslim ever found this concept contrary to Islam.

Indian Muslims deserve better than Arshad Madani’s recycled helplessness

From science to sports, cinema to bureaucracy, the armed forces to the courts, the community has been stitched into every important field of national life.

ADR’s charge of Muslims excluded in Bihar SIR ‘communal, unfounded’, says ECI

The ADR earlier alleged that a significant number of voters, particularly Muslims, were illegally removed from the rolls and that the process lacked transparency.

‘I Love Muhammad’ is cheap politicisation of Prophet’s name. Don’t drag it to the streets

Muslims would do better to think about whether the public performance of religion strengthens or weakens secularism—the idea in which they have the highest stake.

Once you know how UPA handled illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, you see Modi govt’s propaganda

The 'ghuspaithiya' narrative is being whipped up precisely when illegal immigration has actually diminished. Like most BJP-RSS ideas, it’s just an unimaginative Right-wing trope.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.