By Ashraf Thachar
Sheikh Zainudheen Makhdoom, one of most famous Sufi saints in Kerala, who lived in the 16th century AD, stood with the Hindu King against the exploitative rule of Portuguese colonialism. The important thing we could learn in this context is that it was beyond the Islamic Fiqhi (jurisprudential) instructions, because the Fiqh never made a provision of being with an infidel to fight against an army.
By Raj Shekhar Sen
According to the National Crime Bureau for the year 2000, at least two Dalits were assaulted each hour in India. From 2006-11 in North-East India, about 7,000 rape case accusations and more than 11,000 kidnapping cases accusations were made against the Indian Army. But this is where we draw the line for our patriotism.
By Mosarrap H. Khan
In the garb of charging Kanhaiya Kumar with sedition and criminal conspiracy, the BJP is openly waging a war over our universities. A war, which had started in its first tenure in 1998. It’s BJP’s war to secure our universities as bastions of upper caste Hindu values. ‘Anti-national’ is merely a proxy term in this war.
By Ronak Singh Bhasin
I would love us but we are so many countries
All cramped head to toe
Just like my lines in a poem
By Omair Ahmad
Here, really, is the crux of the matter. Nobody expects good writing to come out of India. Certainly not the publishers. If they did, they would fight for Freedom of Expression, because it is a part of their bread and butter.
By Ajay Raina
After traversing through homes of many relatives and searching for various options for survival in Jammu and Delhi, my family assembled at my hostel room door in Pune. I was not even aware that they had left Kashmir forever.
By Syed Kamran Ali
Some of his closest relatives were waiting for his death to reveal their true colours. They have just come out making bogus claims to his remaining property.
By Kathryn Lum
Speaking with dominant business people in Gujarat, it becomes clear that Dalits are seen as untrustworthy, synonymous with government benefits, rather than seen as serious business partners.
By Muhammad Ashraf
The key for maintaining moderate and pluralistic Islam in South Asia is simple, and comprises moderate and pluralistic Islamic education. Muslims trained in the philosophical, theological, and metaphysical aspects of the Islamic past and present will not turn to radicalism.
By Cafe Dissensus
In photos, Dalit Scholar Rohith Vemula’s life, activism, resistance, death, and protests following his death.
By Tikuli
I open my eyes, light a cigarette,
somewhere time died in misty solitude
and the river between us froze.
By Kouser Fathima
The Uniform Civil Code could finally be inclusive of personal laws without gender discrimination. This might be a little difficult to realize but not impossible.
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