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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicMuslims in India

Topic: Muslims in India

Fear, riots, but no ‘Muslim victimhood’— launch of ‘City on Fire’ puts Aligarh in spotlight

Journalist Zeyad Masroor Khan's memoir ‘City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh’ was launched at Delhi's IIC, drawing authors & activists like Harsh Mander, Ziya Us Salam, and Natasha Badhwar.

New book chronicles the tales of state of Muslims in India

Published by HarperCollins, ‘Being Muslim in Hindu India’  by Ziya Us Salam,will be released on 29 November on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Targeting Muslims or anti-encroachment drive? — Nuh demolition puts spotlight on action after clashes

Locals claim demolition drive, which began after 31 July communal violence, meant to teach Muslims in Nuh a lesson. Similar pattern of punishment observed in the past in other states.

Does urbanisation end caste, religious differences? Developmental economists measure ‘segregation’ in India

Researchers claim likelihood of availing govt facilities drops in areas where scheduled castes, Muslims are in majority & their children fare worse than students from non-marginalised groups.

India’s TV news is in love with Asaduddin Owaisi—a Muslim leader for all seasons & reasons

Barring PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi, no other leader gets as much TV coverage as Owaisi does. Even Yogi Adityanath and Mamata Banerjee can't match his stardom.

India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests

India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker.

How do Muslims celebrate Independence Day? The many loyalty tests since Nehru

From Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Modi's India, Muslims must prove allegiance, and visibly so.

Egalitarian Uniform Civil Code formulation by BJP is the concern, not UCC itself

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Madrasas should disappear, Muslims originally Hindus’: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma at RSS event

Abolishing madrasas, slamming the Gandhis and "reconversion", Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma spoke about his idea of India and whether religion should play a role in education.

Indian Muslims got ‘less religious’ since 2016, shows CSDS study. 44% reported discrimination

Muslims report more discrimination than other minorities, but instead of ‘turning to faith’ they are getting less religious, report says. Experts say reality is more nuanced.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.