Killing of Kamlesh Tiwari: Jehad is at your doorstep, here’s how to stop them
Saudi Arabia has a particularly irreverent attitude towards the early history of Islam’s prophet. The house of Khadijah, the first wife of Muhammad, has been turned into a block of toilets. The Makkah Hilton More...
Faith or Fanaticism?
Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious faith or fanaticism? Ram Swarup, Voice of India, 1983 You have probably seen the meme that has been floating around recently in social media, which goes something More...
Is the fake narrative of Hindu terror meant to whitewash Islamic terror?
I remember the autumn of 2008 painfully well. Only a few years earlier I had started to follow politics more closely and had subscribed to the Times of India. Several bomb blasts had happened in different Indian More...
The Pakistan Mentality: Why it is dangerous and why it must be crushed
The first Islamic invasion of India took place in the year 638 CE. With reinforcements from Iraq, Syria, Persia and several other Middle Eastern kingdoms, a large and powerful flotilla attacked Sindh, the Indian More...
Ambedkar’s Thoughts on Indian Muslim Society and Politics
Mingling the Incompatibles: A Curious Attempt at Islamist ‘Ambedkarism’ It was last year when I was strolling about on the campus of my alma mater – Jawaharlal Nehru University – immediately before or after More...
Democracy, Secularism and Minorities
Democracy and secularism in India is about minorities getting away speaking anything about Hindus. But if a Hindu speaks anything about minorities, it becomes a big crime. It becomes a defamation against someone. More...
Population Control Law: How wrong premises lead to wrong conclusions
Is earth overpopulated? Are we going to run out of resources to feed and clothe everyone? Since the end of the 18th century, this topic has been hotly debated by scholars all around the globe. The doom scenario More...
Who is the real minority in India?
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes More...
The Indian chattering class and their Imran Khan syndrome
Back in the 1970s and 1980s when the Pakistani cricket team toured India the five-day matches seemed even more drawn out and dreary than usual as both teams, not wanting to lose, played it safe. Those seeking some More...
On the idea of United Bengal under Islam: The panic stricken past
Dedicated to those who are still drowned in the nostalgic and romantic idea of a common Bengali nation. When India and consequently Bengal was on the eve of partition in 1947, the now infamous riot architect Shuhrawardy More...