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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicMuslim leaders

Topic: Muslim leaders

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.

Indian Muslims need real leaders, not divisive ones. Pasmandas offer future-positive vision

Ashraaf leaders seem indifferent to the concerns of Pasmanda Muslims. Instead, they exploit this marginalised group for electoral gains, trapping them in a narrative of perpetual victimhood.

Terrorism not linked to any religion, says NSA Doval, lauds India’s ‘capacity to absorb dissent’

Speaking at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi, Doval addresses prominent Muslim leaders and scholars on interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance and radicalisation.

Congress plans campaign for Dr Kafeel Khan’s release with signature drives & hunger strikes

As part of the campaign, Congress started collecting signatures Friday. The party said this is also an effort to show Muslims in UP that Congress stands with them.

A day after Ayodhya verdict, NSA Ajit Doval meets Hindu & Muslim religious leaders

The religious leaders and intellectuals appealed for peace, apprehensive some elements may try to 'exploit the situation'.

Modi govt asks Muslim Ulema to send message of peace through mosques before Ayodhya verdict

At a meeting with Muslim community leaders, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi urges peace regardless of the final Ayodhya verdict.

Not Salman Khurshid, not Owaisi, Indian Muslims need a Shashi Tharoor

The space for Muslim leadership is vacant and wide-open. It’s only a matter of time that we will see a new crop of Muslim leaders come up.

On Camera

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

After 19 years, the Bombay High Court finally held what governments and intelligence services have long known: The men sentenced for their role in the bombings had nothing to do with it.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.