Editorials

People all around the world experience discrimination in their everyday lives, whether they experience it firsthand, or see it happening. Whatever the case, people need to know how to react, or in some cases, fight back. Sadly, the most...

Today I called my housemaid in India and inquired about her well-being. Her first response was: ‘Ye log Musalaman ko Desh chor ke Janey ko bol rahey hain.’ (They are telling Muslims to leave India.) I was dumbfounded. Ye log...

In view of the prevailing travel ban to Libya by the government of India imposed in 2016, the Union Minister, Kiran Rijiju’s visit to the north African country assumes more significance. Warm reception by the Interior Minister of Libya in...

A girl was happy that today her mother offered to take her to the movies. This 7-year old girl was excited as this was her first movie in a long time. She left the house hoping to have a...

For long, the Indian state has practiced the unconstitutional sin of opting for Haj subsidy to continue. For long, India has suffered from the undue burden of religious subsidy to a particular community. For long, people have voiced opinions...

What instant Triple talaq is to ‘Muslim wives’, criminalization of it is to ‘Muslim husbands’. The former has been sacredly practiced in the name of religion while the latter has been hastily enacted in the name of safeguarding women’s rights....

The radiance of Taj Mahal, at the moment, is blurred not by deterioration in climatic conditions but by the unfounded discourse of xenophobes. The glory of White Marvel is eclipsed not by centuries of its existence on the dingy...

The experience of being a part of the celebration of Diwali in India still enthralls me very much. As a child, I recall to mind…how impatiently I waited for the evening of Diwali to come! How profusely I admired the...

No country in the world is as spirituality varied and vibrant as India in whose lap countless and limitless colors of life have prospered since centuries. No nation in the world has been as much generous to the displaced...

My father, Munshi Abdul Mabood, was a government employee in the department of posts in Bihar. He was a Muslim. In 1947, he did not migrate to Pakistan as he did not feel threatened by the post-partition communal flare-up in the...