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Some cases escape the boundaries of courtrooms and case files. They move into the moral imagination of a society and linger there, asking questions that law alone cannot answer. The continued incarceration of Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid is one such case—less because of its legal novelty than because of the unease it has generated, quietly and persistently, across borders. Nearly five years have passed since Khalid was arrested in September 2020. He remains in Delhi’s Tihar

In India, outrage is rarely accidental. It is curated, directed, and often selective. Few episodes reveal this more clearly than the moment Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, and Jay Mehta, through Kolkata Knight Riders, chose to buy a Bangladeshi cricketer—and found themselves standing not on a cricket field, but in a dock of moral accusation. The act itself was unremarkable. The response was not. Before any IPL franchise can buy a foreign player, one institution must first open t

Hinduism today is a global faith that extends far beyond the Indian subcontinent. Although the vast majority of the world’s Hindus live in South Asia, a significant and growing number are part of global diasporas scattered across Christian-majority nations. These diaspora communities have, in many cases, found ways—imperfect and contested—to live in pluralistic environments in which religious identity is protected by law and by social norms of inclusion. Yet in India, where H

On a clear day in New Delhi, millions of footsteps converge on a monument of sandstone and memory—India Gate. Towering over Rajpath, it is not merely an architectural landmark: it is a hall of names, a collective inscription of sacrifice. While the arch itself memorializes Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War, the land around it and later additions to it carry the spirit of a nation forged in struggle. When visitors stand before the India Gat

The making of modern India unfolded not only on the battlegrounds of mass movements and negotiation tables but also in the contested imaginations of the three men who shaped its moral, political, and civilizational vocabulary in the last 100 years: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. They lived through the same turbulence—colonial subjugation, communal anxieties, the rising winds of nationalism—yet each interpreted the country’s p

India is a country like no other. For thousands of years, people of many cultures, languages, and religions have lived together on its land. Today, India is home to Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, tribal religions, and many others. This diversity is not new. It has been part of India since ancient times. Some groups today claim that people who became Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Muslims, or Christians “left” India or betrayed their heritage. They argue

by Dr. Aslam Abdullah There are people whose patriotism is loud—measured by slogans, speeches, and brief moments of public fervor. And there are those whose patriotism is quiet, steady, and lifelong. They do not wave flags; they lift people. They do not seek applause; they seek dignity for the forgotten. Among such rare figures stands Manzoor Ghori , founder of IMRC (Indian Muslim Relief & Charities) —a man whose work has touched thousands of lives across India, often without

Every modern nation tells a story about its birth. Some declare themselves forged in revolution; others claim civilization as their inheritance. India, however, was born out of something stranger, more fragile, more luminous: an idea. It was an idea stitched together by men and women who stood on the ruins of empire and dared to imagine a republic where religion would not determine destiny, caste would not imprison the soul, and power would be constrained by law. That idea wa

In the labyrinthine lanes of Old Delhi, where the aroma of kebabs mingles with the call to prayer and where Urdu couplets float like incense through the air, a boy named Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi was born in June 1947—the same summer when India stood on the trembling edge between colonial twilight and independent dawn. He was a child of thresholds—between two worlds, two centuries, two civilizational tempers. The city around him whispered of empires gone and revolutions sti

In the winding lanes of Old Delhi, amid the clamor of hawkers and the fragrance of kebabs, stands a monument that has outlived empires—the Anglo-Arabic School at Ajmeri Gate. It is not merely a school but a living chronicle of India’s educational awakening: a bridge between the Qur’an and calculus, between the mosque and the modern world, between tradition and the spirit of inquiry. The Visionary Founder: Ghazi-ud-Din Khan To understand the school’s soul, one must return to t

Based on 1931 Census Data Aslam Abdullah This document presents demographic projections for India's caste and religious population in...

They were young, energetic, and full of ambition. Many had come to the United States—the world’s leading superpower—equipped with strong...

Modi lost his magic in India and 62 parliament districts in the 2024 elections compared with 2019. His Hindu nationalist party, the BJP,...

Historians generally do not believe he existed in real life, yet there are 300 different versions of his story. Many devotees call him...

The largest Hindu temple outside India, BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, has been inaugurated in New Jersey, the United States in the...

Sikhs are the new anti-national community in the eyes of RSS and Sanatan Dharm followers in India. The Indian intelligence, RAW, has...

Amid a controversy over his remarks at a conference in Chennai, Tamil Nadu sports minister Udhayanidhi Stalin reiterated his 'firm...

Sanatana Dharma is in the news these days after a young Tamil Nadu (South Indian State) minister called for the eradication of Sanatana...

India's Voice for Social Justice, Periyar Periyar and his close friend S. Ramanathan visited Mahatma Gandhi in Bangalore in 1927. Their...

An Upper-Caste Hindu teacher incites her Hindu students to strike a Muslim boy to get a multiplication table wrong. She spits her venom...