Anti-CAA Protests: Is it a test case for Indian Muslims to find political worth?
Since over the past one month, a series of protests have erupted across the length and breadth of the country that saw an unprecedented turnout of one community on More...
An Open Letter to Hon’ble Minister for Minority Affairs, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hon’ble Minister for Minority Affairs Respected Sir At very outset I must apologise to you for questioning your patently illegal and unconstitutional decision to award 5 crore scholarships More...
Worship and the Holy Dogs of modernity
One of the biggest strikes of Christianity and Islam against pagan and dharmic traditions is that of “blasphemy” or “shirk.” No bigger shirk than having companions for Allah or that of “idol worship”—that More...
Cow Protection of Mahatma Gandhi – Appeasing Muslims and Bullying Dalits
Controversies about cow protection frequently emerge in Indian polity, and every time it does, the proponents and opponents of cow protection seek to bolster their respective cases by selectively quoting Mohandas More...
ORPs In Jharkhand
[contextly_sidebar id=”oD6vdstCcFrRNSa9GCTAh2ciwDhZsI29″] In the previous post, we have noted that the decline in the share of Indian Religionists (IRs), and the corresponding rise of Muslims and Christians, More...
Hamid Ansari and Rafiq Zakaria: A Study in Contrasts
Is it appropriate for the Vice President of secular India to speak publicly about the deprivation and discrimination by the state against his community? Is it acceptable for our nation’s Vice President to speak 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...
Abrahamic ideology inspires extraterritorial loyalty
The Mongol empire founded by Chingiz Khan and furthered by his sons and grandsons was remarkable in practicing religious freedom as a state policy. The early Khans did not enforce their ancestral Altaic religion More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...
Hartosh Bal’s Caravan to Oblivion
In the 1 October 2014 issue of Caravan magazine, journalist Hartosh Singh Bal repeated the now-jaded caution of how the victory of the Narendra Modi-led BJP in the 2014 elections has paved the way for the “fascist” More...