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Sunday, April 5, 2026
TopicIndian Muslims

Topic: Indian Muslims

Asiya Andrabi is no women’s rights advocate. She does not speak for Indian Muslims

International news media calling Asiya Andrabi a defender of women’s rights shows how narratives are constructed and what they choose to omit.

Indian Muslims must stop being delusional about the Global Ummah

The recent events in Gaza and Iran have exposed the hollowness of the idea of Global Islam.

Iran conflict has reached India. Muslims are again asked to prove their patriotism

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.

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.

On Camera

Iraq’s long road to FIFA World Cup qualification is a story of survival, defiance

Historically, football has been used as a lens through which political anger, identity, and resistance come into focus. From Mohun Bagan to Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast, this claim can be easily cemented.

What to expect from China’s new 5-year plan—trade innovation, tensions with partners

ASEAN is struggling against a flood of 'underpriced Chinese goods', while Brazil has imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.