While Barelvis never stressed on labelling local customs as 'Hinduwana', Deobandis focused on a puritanical version of Islam. Both aim to dominate a new 'Islamic' polity.
Waqf boards are the third largest landowners in India, after Armed Forces and Railways. But India's Muslim community is still struggling for basic needs.
To better integrate Indian Muslims, the totem of separatism, Muslim Personal Law, needs radical reform. And the process must begin with an overhaul of AMU’s power structure.
No Muslim group today can claim to represent the majority of Indian Muslims. They do only in some capacities and their involvement in any dialogue on Hindu-Muslim issues should be seen as a positive step.
Bharatpur IG Gaurav Srivastava also denies allegations in FIR lodged against his personnel. Confident Haryana Police will investigate it in professional manner, he asserts.
Pasmanda Muslims, who form the majority in India, have no connection whatsoever to the Mughals. If there is anything in the past for them, it’s their exploitation.
Most key Hindutva/RSS objectives have been achieved, and Modi & BJP now need social calm, at least till summer of 2024. A de-escalation of some sort is on.
Pasmandas make up 80-85% of India's Muslim population and have long been wooed by political parties. The more affluent Bohras, largely from Gujarat, are traditionally BJP supporters.
Unlike many other Indian origin politicians, he has not converted to Christianity or played down his Indian roots. It would be hard for him to do that anyway because his mother Mira Nair is a well-known film director in India.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
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.
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