Muslims

Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

Zareer Masani

The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction

Arcot: The Prototype of Divide-And-Rule

Ullekh NP

The idea of Arcot

Partition Narratives and National Projects

Anam Zakaria

Hell is the other, still

The Road to 2019

PR Ramesh

From the election of Ram Nath Kovind as the next President to the unravelling in Bihar to the impending Supreme Court verdict on triple talaq, Modi sets the terms for the big battle even as the Congress sinks deeper into irrelevance

Zakir Naik: A Different Kind of Jihadist

Matthew J Kuiper

Deconstructing the provocations and self-promotion of Zakir Naik

Bajrang Dal: A Bolder Shade of Saffron

Kumar Anshuman

Bajrang Dal struggles to retain its place in the vanguard of the Hindutva movement in the post-Ayodhya era (Photos: Ashish Sharma)

God’s Recruits

Ullekh NP and Siddharth Singh

The radicalisation of Indian Muslim youth in the age of the Islamic State

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

The London attack, the jargonised prose of academia and the Ireland’s new Prime Minister

Identity is Destiny

Priya Khanchandani

In the wake of the Westminster and Manchester attacks, an exhibition in London brings out what it means to be a working-class Muslim youth in Britain today