Topic: Muslim
The suave communalism of Shashi Tharoor
Behind the polished facade is a garden-variety Indian politician
UP polls 2022: Peace Party, Rashtriya Ulama Council launch alliance
The Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC) of Maulana Aamir Rashadi and the Peace Party led by Dr Mohammad Ayub on Tuesday announced the launch of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) for the 2022 UP assembly polls.
Indian Church loses friends and makes new enemies
Church leaders find themselves rapidly losing allies, even as they make new enemies, and widen the many internal fractures of dogma, doctrine, racialism, and caste.
MP: Muslim vendor thrashed by Hindutva group for selling bangles in ‘Hindu area’
A video is being widely circulated on social media showing Tasleem, a bangle seller in Madhya Pradesh's Govidnagar, being thrashed by Hindutva men for entering the Hindu neighbourhood.
Why didn’t I celebrate Independence Day?
Every year on 14th August, friends turned Hindutva activists would wish me “azaadi”. I know it has become normalised for Indian Muslims. It is one of the ways that the Hindutva brigade and like-minded citizens mock Indian Muslims and want to make us realise that we should be on the other side on the Indo-Pak border, that we don’t belong here. This year was no different. Now I have stopped replying to these kinds of slurs. I have stopped proving myself “Indian” to them. I’ve just stopped engaging on this issue.
Bengal: Police mob brutally beat Muslim policeman, Wife suffers miscarriage after physical assault
around 10 am Sub-inspector Somnath Das and four others of the Sonarpur police station were at his door, looking for Hossain Ali. Suraf was surprised that his 85-year-old uncle, who spent his days, staring at nothing, would be wanted by the police. Moreover, Somnath Das, in civil dress and slippers, claiming to carry a warrant, did not present the image of a police officer on duty.
