Jihadists

Who Wants Salman Rushdie Killed?

S Prasannarajan

Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination

The Future of Kashmiri Pandits

Rahul Pandita

Is there a life for them in the Valley?

The Khorasan Bug

Rahul Pandita

The dismantling of an Islamic state module in Kashmir reveals how its handlers were planning to integrate recruitment across the Indian Subcontinent

Kashmir: The Battle for Turf

Rahul Pandita

Pro-Pakistan terror groups in Kashmir are at war with pan-Islamic jihadi groups. Security agencies don’t know which way it will go

Balakot and the Backstory of Jihad

MJ Akbar

An area of darkness

Range of the Radical

Akshat Khandelwal

Two books explore the influence of Salafism

The Victim Politics

S Prasannarajan

Politics driven by industrial victimhood is hollow

ISIS: The End of an Idea

Anchal Vohra

The defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria should not be an occasion for global complacency. Anchal Vohra reports from Najaf and Baghdad

Hauntings in Mosul

Anchal Vohra

The dead and the missing in the ruins of this historical city merge into the larger narrative of the future of the Islamic State

Open Minds 2017: Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Yesterday's public intellectual, fallen from his ideological perch, is the new doomsday monger. In the new order, the loudest one is the least sensible