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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicIndian Muslims

Topic: Indian Muslims

Munawar Faruqui challenges Indian Muslims’ victimhood complex. His win holds key messages

The admiration and celebration of such icons among the Indian Muslim community signify a rejection of outdated beliefs.

Indian Muslims don’t need a ‘Muslim’ leader, but someone who can rise above religious labels

The assumption that communities should be exclusively represented by leaders of their religious background contradicts the Constitution.

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.

Two photographs bookend my understanding of India & my place in it as an Indian-Muslim

If the photograph of the demolition of Babri Masjid is an assertion of power, then the Shaheen Bagh photograph is a resistance to that power.

Urdu’s popularity in Devanagari is a lesson for Muslims—acceptance lies in Indianisation

Today, Urdu literacy is lowest among the Ashraaf and highest among the lower classes who are educated in madrasas. But it’s the Ashraafs who claim to live the ‘Urdu culture’.

Shehla Rashid wrong to say Muslims have it better in India. Violence is systemic & sinister

What good is a six-digit salary for a Muslim when they are denied simple life choices such as having halal meat or renting homes in preferred neighbourhoods? What good is a six-digit salary for a Muslim when they are denied simple life choices such as having halal meat or renting homes in preferred neighbourhoods?

Muslims must let go of victimhood. India is far more secular than West, writes Shehla Rashid

Muslims must participate in the vision of a rapidly progressing India. It will also require ignoring some noise, election rhetoric and carrying on like a model minority.

Peace between Jews and Muslims is only possible in Hindu-majority India

Khurshid Imam, a devout Muslim, has broken linguistic and cultural barriers to become the only professor of Hebrew in India, and Thoufeek Zakriya is the country’s most prominent Hebrew calligrapher.

As a Pasmanda Muslim, I didn’t grow up hearing about Palestine. We had more pressing issues

Indian Muslims should ask themselves why they prioritise expressing concern for Muslims in distant Palestine over their Hindu brethren, who live in India and share a common culture.

Cameras, chocolate, compromise—Muzaffarnagar Muslim boy is forced to repeat his story to everyone

From BJP's Sanjeev Balyan to farm leader Naresh Tikait to Congress and SP leaders, everyone's descended in UP's Khubbapur village looking to quell the tension and absolve Hindu teacher Tripta Tyagi.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.