Opinion

The text of Jamia Millia Islamia student leader and anti-CAA activist Aysha Renna’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021 on January 30.

The film offers the lived experiences of these epoch-making black men who are at the threshold of endearing an important phase in their lives, it discusses their roles in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s in America, simultaneously attempting to reveal deeper humanity of the characters and so of the viewers as well.

Ambedkar was alone in his thought and politics. Rohit was alone in his life and death. None other than his soul could know that he was walking towards death.

Approval of the Bharat Biotech Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, which is still undergoing phase-3 clinical trials, has raised serious questions.

Muzzammil Imam Tamam log bahut khush hain, apni masti me hain, Main kis se bolun mere log mar gaye afkar Everyone is happy, enjoying their own lives. Who will listen Afkar that my...

The Hindu order and its hijacking of the state’s complex yet consequential notions of secularism has incapacitated the movement and relevance of religious conversion. New orders of dissent must attempt to revive an outlook towards religious conversion and in the face of new legislations and forms of violence against anything that is considered a disturbance to ‘religious harmony’ by a fundamentalist state, making the case for the ‘right to convert’.

Repeat a lie so often and it becomes the truth of the day, and the truth is not debatable. The overarching narrative of ‘narrative-making’ is facilitated with an unending...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to address the centenary celebrations event of Aligarh Muslim University on Tuesday, 22 December 2020. Modi's presence stirred up a heated debate among the teachers and students of AMU since the announcement. Many students, professors and alumni expressed their disappointment through social media. In a letter addressing the staff, students and other members of AMU fraternity, Prof. Tariq Mansoor the vice-chancellor of the university appealed to keep the centenary celebrations "above politics".

A few weeks ago, CPI(M) released a fact-finding report of the February 2020, Delhi Pogrom (euphemised as Delhi “Violence”). The survey reads less like a fact-finding mission and more of a bragging report card of the party accompanied by subtle chastising of the Muslim protestors.

Its one year today. One year to the state sponsored attack on two Central Universities that are widely associated to Indian Muslims, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI). One whole year of forcing myself into remembering that fateful day and night. The violence and the struggle.

In the utterance of word, there hunches a mountain that I must climb—and just when I begin to plant my feet on the burly mountain-limb, it collapses into tiny mounds of alphabet I struggle to assemble.

I came across the Facebook page “Kerala Nasrani” (meaning Saint Thomas Christians from Kerala) during the COVID-19 lockdown. The page was primarily involved in sharing videos and information regarding the activities of the Catholic Church in Kerala. To my surprise, the feeds were strange, and the posts felt like it was drafted with the aim of targeting Muslims by spreading Islamophobic messages and selling the ‘Jihadi’ narrative.