Don’t Blame the Cow

Trapped by Triple Talaq

A survey reveals that a huge majority of Muslim women in India want to see the end of the unilateral oral divorce and other such injustices of the religion’s personal laws

The Patna Protocol

An epic battle is underway in the proverbial badlands of Bihar, where many political lives swing between irrelevance and renewal. Even as cracks appear in the artificial alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, the BJP wants more than a victory. It is fighting for a mandate worthy of India’s most popular politician and its unsurpassed campaigner. Narendra Modi’s next phase of modernisation will begin from the backwardness of Bihar

Nothing Medieval About Them

Are Islamic terrorists, executioners of the digital age, ahead of the curve?

Perils of the Backward Fetish

The emergence of a new social injustice will lead to a surge of such protests across the country

Mumbai after Yakub’s Hanging

The disquiet among Muslims in Mumbai

Madrassas: Out of Date

The Maharashtra government’s decision on madrassas stresses the need for the modernisation of Islamic schools

Why Islam needs a reformation now

Ayaan Heresy Ali

Conversation with a Heretic

A Place Called Bhatkal

In the bucolic remoteness of coastal Karnataka, affluence and heritage fail to hide the lure of radical Islam