Secularism

UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice

Why the idea of an Islamic state is full of holes

  The attitude of Indian Islamist organisations and scholars towards...

British Muslims for Secular Democracy (bmsd)

Aims: Raise awareness within British Muslims and the wider...

Council of ex-Muslims of Britain

Manifesto We, non-believers, atheists, and ex-Muslims, are establishing or joining...

Islam Against Extremism

Objects: Exposing deviant ideologies, extremism, terrorism and their proponentsAbout:...

Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV)

  Mission: MPV’s mission is to embody and be an effective...

Muslims facing tomorrow

Motto: God is beautiful and He loves BeautyMission Statement Whereas...

Universalist Muslims

  Motto: “Allah loves us all”.Vision: To unearth and spread...

The Muslim Reform Movement

  Motto: “Ideas do not have rights, human beings have...

Dialogue with the deaf?

  Christians should beware of the sangh parivar’s latest bid...

My hometown

First published on: January 1, 2005MK Raina is a...

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”

Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

Through detailed reliance on fear, timing, intelligence inputs, and administrative response, the Court stretches “public order” to justify preventive detention—raising difficult questions about liberty, evidence, and constitutional limits

From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse