Indian Muslims and their Dilemma
By Nahid Sarwar
Hence, the more intense the trade of hatred, the more powerful the flowering of love and compassion needed.
Celebrating Eid in uncertain times
By Fathima M & Sharonee Dasgupta
This Eid reminds us of the sufferings – man-made or not – that are capable of tearing our lives apart and leaving deep scars within us.
Indian Muslims at the Time of Corona
By Mursed Alam & Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
For the Indian Muslims, corona might have brought in some temporary political respite, but the bigger and continued virus of religious hatred appears to remain unchecked and untreated.
Indian Muslims from 2014-2020: De-radicalization or de-politicization?
By Nousheen Baba Khan
This makes me wonder if the process of de-radicalization is a disguised way of de-politicization of Indian Muslims.
Partition and the fate of Muslims in the subcontinent
By Shah Nawaz Afaque
The BJP Chief Minster from UP, Yogi Adityanath made a similar statement claiming that Indian Muslims did no favour to India by staying back.
What have Indian Muslims learnt from current protests?
By Nawaz Ahmed Khan
Therefore, we must choose our allies wisely. If solidarity from a community comes with conditions, we should be prepared to fight this long battle for our rights alone.
Would Indian Muslims receive international support if they are stripped of citizenship?
By Shuma Talukdar
Should Muslims in India finds themselves in a state similar to that of the Rohingyas in Myanmar in the future, it would be unrealistic of them to hope of any support from the international community, for we have before us the precedent of the Rohingya, to whom the world turned its back, while they were subjected to ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence.
Unpacking the akaal (crisis) of the so called “Bengali Vivek” (conscience) with Ravish Kumar
By Nasima Islam
Bengalis including everyone residing in Bengal while remaining auto-critical to their internal mistakes must in all strength, be united and resist all sorts of “narrow domestic walls” that tries to divide its own abode. Can Bengal do that?
NRC: More than a question of losing citizenship
By Shahid Jamal
The idea of citizenship can’t be imprisoned within the framework of blood and soil or religion; it needs a broader, more inclusive definition rooted in the liberal spirit of the Constitution.
Love || Eat || Pray|| Lynch
By Sabyasachi Nag
The man
Entrusted with the sentence swings and strikes each time
Tabrez makes a slow lunge at the trajectory of the cane –
Shaking his head as the enforcer implores
To chant after him – Jai Shri Ram.
Jab We Lynched: From Rioters Democratic Inc.
By Asma Anjum Khan
Look, when you are trapped, do they ask you which sect you belong to while if you raise your hands up to your shoulders (or not – doing Rafiuddin) as you mischievously pray your Jumma in a park? Or do they ask if you practise the typical Islamophobic Islam that the world loves to fear or are you a teetotaler?
Has the Indian growth story missed the Muslim minorities?
By J Aslam Basha
Though India can rightfully be proud that a massive 170 million people have been uplifted from poverty since 1990, it has been found by researchers from the Dartmouth University and MIT that those from the most vulnerable sections have lagged behind for various reasons.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 