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Indian Muslims must stop being delusional about the Global Ummah

+TFP Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
The recent events in Gaza and Iran have exposed the hollowness of the idea of Global Islam.

Islam dominated searches, Christianity influenced social media. Study shows influence online

Triya Gulati -
A December 2025 study examining the influence of religion on the internet revealed that belief systems are shaping digital conversations and curiosity.

Inside Bhai Preet Singh’s anti-mosque campaign in Delhi. Courts, clashes, claims

+TFP Samridhi Tewari -
Meet the activist operating outside party politics, using social media tips and court petitions to challenge mosques and dargahs across Delhi.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Shekhar Gupta -
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.

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

Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
'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.

As a Pasmanda Muslim woman, it pains me that India took 70 years to question talaq-e-hasan

Amana Begam -
Talaq-e-hasan is often described as the “preferable” method because it stretches the process for three months, but it is not fair. It remains a one-sided, extrajudicial mechanism in India.

Dr Umar Nabi has shattered a popular misconception about terrorism

Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
The good and the bad in the Islamic tradition are so intertwined that there is no good Islam to fight the bad one. The way out is not the true Islam, but the true nationalisation of it.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
Zohran Mamdani says he is not apologetic about being a Muslim. He shouldn’t be. But should he be assertive about it?

Saudi Arabia is changing. It can shape the future of Muslim world

Amana Begam -
A section of Muslims has started to argue that the reforms in Saudi Arabia do not necessarily reflect the teachings of Islam.

Indian Muslims must face the truth—Muslim countries don’t care about them

Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your Muslimness within Indianness.
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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Esha Mishra -
Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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