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Saturday, November 8, 2025
TopicIndian Muslims

Topic: Indian Muslims

India’s caste & untouchability had a role in Pakistan’s creation, writes Islamabad columnist

The castes could neither inter-dine nor intermarry – two aspects that were often brought up by proponents of the two-nation theory.

Muslims In India have sought ban on cow slaughter for decades. But politics didn’t allow it

Stopping cow slaughter by Muslims had paved the way for Hindu-Muslim unity and success of Khilafat movement in the pre-Independence era.

How Indian secularism could still be saved

Those who want to save secularism from drowning will have to use the nation’s ultimate life-jacket: nationalism.

India’s Muslim community under a churn: 85% backward Pasmandas up against 15% Ashrafs

Pasmandas’ slogan of 85% vs 15% against Syedwad is making backward Muslims talk about rights instead of virtue, dawa instead of dua.

Muslim MPs, MLAs don’t always work for Muslims. See Akhilesh govt response to Muzaffarnagar

Muslim backwardness is a national issue, which is a more serious problem than declining number of Muslim MPs in Parliament.

Owaisi has merely let the open secret out: ‘secular’ parties had ditched Muslims long ago

An eerie silence dominates Muslim-populated areas in India’s hinterlands. Leaders stay away and photo-op with clerics is a thing of past.

If a Naseeruddin Shah feels unaccepted, then what about me, asks Asaduddin Owaisi

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi tells ThePrint it's important to assert one’s religion and culture in face of growing intolerance.

Three Bollywood movies that revealed the complexity of being an Indian Muslim in 2018

In Manto, Mulk and Kedarnath, Bollywood’s Muslims learn to live dangerously.

Mohan Bhagwat says no Hindu Rashtra without Muslims: Is RSS changing before 2019 polls?

Mohan Bhagwat, during the three-day RSS lecture series called ‘Bhavishya Ka Bharat’, said that the Sangh’s interpretation of Hindutva does not exclude Muslims and...

Their silence is not helping Indian Muslims – they must speak up and be heard

There is nothing like a community speaking for itself. ‘Jo dar gaya, woh mar gaya’.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.