Religion Data of Census 2011: II The Imbalance Worsens
In this second post on the religion data of Census 2011, we give the main national aggregate numbers about the changes that have taken place in the share of different communities during 2001-11, and try to put these More...
Towards a New Cosmopolitan Muslim Mindset
During one of my recent summer trips to India, an incident in the Mewat region of Haryana reported in a local newspaper caught my attention. A road accident had escalated into a communal riot between Muslims and More...
Lecture on Changes in the Religious Demography of India and the World in Last 100 Years: A Report
The C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research hosted a lecture on Changes in the Religious Demography of India and the World in the Last 100 Years conducted by Professor M.D.Srinivas, Chairman, Centre More...
Good Start but Loses Steam — Heretic: Book Review
Summary That Islam needs a reformation, and urgently, is not in debate. The unfolding tragedy of the civil war Syria, where an estimated forty per cent of its population (yes, two of every five people) has been More...
I am a Kaffir and I need a Hug
In the afternoon of 6 August, a blindfolded Muslim man named Mazim Mullah stood in a Mumbai street with his hands stretched open and a message that urged passersby to hug him: “I’m a Muslim and I trust More...
Bitter Truths, Difficult Questions
Morgan Freeman’s character in Now You See Me (2013) tells Mark Ruffalo’s character, “When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere More...
Islamophobia: An Invention that Enfeebles Free Speech
In my earlier essay on the topic, I discussed the damaging influence that political Islam has over public discourse by preventing people from examining the root causes of Islamism. In this piece, I examine political More...
Yakub Memon: What the Media Suppresses
On 15 July 2015, across many media channels in India, we saw something that was never seen before, but which is sure to become more frequent and shriller with each passing year now: that was the reaction of Muslim More...
Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...