Syed Ali Mujtaba The Pasmanda Muslims of Bihar may have something to talk about after Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered a caste-based census in the state. However, they are unsure, of what it would eventually mean to them. The Pasmanda Muslims, other...
Shaista Fatima New Delhi JAN O3,2022: IIT Delhi's renowned Physicist Prof VK Tripathi has been conducting workshops for the madrassas students and teachers since 2014. In a video titled "misconceptions about madrassas" that was shared by his daughter on various...
By Dr. M Qutubuddin The New Year will bring new challenges, and thereby new opportunities. Although challenges for the Muslims are going to be relatively harder, yet the youth are well-equipped to convert the same into opportunities if the community leaders draw their...
FRANK F ISLAM After a long and hard-fought campaign, it is now my honor to utter the four most powerful words in a democracy: “The people have spoken.” I have often said that a vote is a prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and our children. — Raphael Warnock,...
Syed Ali Mujtaba A recent book “Mothering a Muslim” by Nazia Erum captures some of the realities of what it means to be a Muslim in non-Madrasa Schools in India. A day after a bomb blast in Europe in 2018, a teacher at a popular Noida school read out headlines to her...
Syed Ali Mujtaba Even with a 9 percent Muslim population, there is a lone Muslim MLA being elected in the 182-member house in the Gujarat assembly in the election that concluded recently in 2022. Overall the ruling BJP party won a total of 156 seats, the Congress...
Asad Mirza Official census figures from Britain points to the falling number of Christians in the country, while in America a demand is growing to declare the country a Christian nation. Over the years, it was believed that Christianity was ebbing in the United...
By Frank F Islam This guy (Donald Trump) is the best thing for Democrats since FDR. — Former GOP Rep Francis Rooney (R-FL) Going into the mid-term elections, the conventional wisdom espoused by pundits, pollsters, and the media was that the Democrats were going to...
Dangerous Choices being commercialised and globalised in the name of “Freedom of Choice” Dr. Javed Jamil As the dates for the inauguration of FIFA World Cup in Qatar started approaching, the world media got busy to play the game of the market forces, which...
Asad Mirza The Moscow Conference on Afghanistan has shown the resolve of the regional players to play an affective role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, and help the masses, who are facing a bleak future. After a relatively silent phase on Afghan situation, which...