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By Tufail Ahmad On Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
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Secularism is a National Security Threat to India

Every year in the rainy season, frogs come out and try to say something noisily. Similarly, during elections, some seasonal frogs emerge into India’s mainstream and proclaim loudly: “Muslim vote is secular; More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Monday, February 13th, 2017
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Muslim Women are India’s Neo-Untouchable Caste – The Case for Uniform Civil Code

Over the past year, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (the Assembly of Indian Islamic Scholars) – a family-owned religious organisation whose leaders are not elected by Muslims – has been organising events across India More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Friday, January 27th, 2017
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Islamic Leaders Seek Dalit Support to Undermine UCC

“Yeksan civil code thopa gaya to mulk mein takrao ke halaat paida ho jayen gein” – if the uniform civil code is imposed, situations of confrontation will emerge in the country. This is a banner headline More...

By Maria Wirth On Thursday, January 26th, 2017
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गणपती देव आहे काय?

The article has been translated into Marathi by Professor Manohar Railkar सामान्यतः अन्य संप्रदायांवर हिंदु कधीही टीका करीत नाहीत. More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Thursday, January 12th, 2017
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The Ideology of A.G. Noorani

Over the past few centuries, civilisation has witnessed a worldwide movement to separate religion from the state and law, giving birth to secularism. In India, one man is trying to reverse this process. His name More...

By Tufail Ahmad On Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
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The Intellectual Deceit of Faizan Mustafa

 It is time for Faizan Mustafa – a leading columnist on Indian Muslim issues and vice chancellor of the Hyderabad-based NALSAR University of Law – to enroll in a madrassa and teach Islamic Sharia. In article More...

By Shanmukh Saswati Sarkar and Dikgaj On Thursday, November 10th, 2016
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Tipu Sultan Jayanthi – A Celebration of Bigotry and Barbarity

Today, the 10th of November, is being celebrated by the Government of Karnataka as Tipu Jayanthi, despite Tipu being born on the 20th of November. The government is commemorating the birth of Tipu, who ruled most More...

By Ashay Naik On Friday, October 21st, 2016
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Pagan and Monotheistic Violence

[contextly_sidebar id=”BSeG8JZLATQzdDJEHhudgYVnspxd0Vmz”] This essay is a meditation on the second chapter of Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods, titled ‘Seth the Iconoclast: Polytheism and the Language More...

By Surajit Dasgupta On Friday, July 22nd, 2016
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Call For Worldwide ‘Ghar Wapsi’

One kind of terrorism is affecting the whole world. There is no singular phenomenon other than Islamism that motivates terrorists from Asia to Europe to Africa. Now even the US, protected geographically on either More...

By Arvind Lavakare On Friday, July 15th, 2016
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Will Zakir Naik Be Served His Due “Dessert”?

Zakir Naik, 50, the MBBS doctor, is right now in the midst of a tsunami created largely by the media- social and mainstream. They are all baying for the blood of the erudite and garrulous fanatic of the Quran and More...