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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicPasmanda Muslims

Topic: Pasmanda Muslims

AIMPLB’s appeal on Gyanvapi unconstitutional, will only hurt poor Muslims

Muslims giving up the claim on Gyanvapi wouldn’t just benefit the country and society, but will also be in accordance with the ethos of Islamic teachings.

The AIMPLB is no defender of Muslim Personal Law. It doesn’t even represent all Muslims

The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board says Islamic religious traditions are going through their most difficult period since 1857 and 1947. That’s not true.

Indian Muslims aren’t saying Uniform Civil Code is bad. It’s just that Ashraafs have a problem

Painting UCC as a plot against Islam happens at the behest of the 'upper-class' Ashraafs currently leading the Muslim society. Reality is different.

Asim Bihari, the icon of Pasmanda movement who liked to stay in the background

Asim Bihari always looked at electoral politics as a shortcut to quick success and considered it more appropriate to give priority to generating social awareness.

Pasmandas are the real minorities deprived of welfare. Muslims aren’t homogenous

Taking India's largest ‘minority’ as homogenous is inappropriate. Muslims face many problems that need to be understood and resolved.

Pasmanda Muslims are using social media to counter those defending the medieval Taliban

Those associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband and the Taliban may not have any direct links but their ideological and historical linkages cannot be ruled out.

Pasmanda Muslims missing from positions of power— Waqf Board to Jamaat-e-Islami

From Mandal Commission, to the Ranganath Mishra Commission and the Sachar Committee, all have acknowledged caste discrimination within Muslim society.

India’s Muslim community under a churn: 85% backward Pasmandas up against 15% Ashrafs

Pasmandas’ slogan of 85% vs 15% against Syedwad is making backward Muslims talk about rights instead of virtue, dawa instead of dua.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

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.