Charlie Hebdo

The Crooked Lives of Free Speech

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Liberals lose the plot from Paris to Delhi

“I hope the more pacific, cat-loving Muhammad serves as the model for Muslims”

Rajni George

Historian Tom Holland on the riddle of monotheism and the crisis within modern-day Islam

BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED

PR Ramesh

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

The lone wolf has internalised the imperium, and when he pulls the trigger, or draws out the knife, or faces his executioner with the greatness of his god on his lips, he becomes a voluntary slave at this century’s most ambitious construction site of religion. The lone wolf has never been alone

BEWARE THE HATE WAVE

Tufail Ahmad

The online responses of Indian Muslims to the Paris massacre should serve as a wake-up call

We Are Murugan

Rajni George

1Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has fallen on the point of his pen, following the fate of his own ill-fated characters. What can we do to bring him back?