Commoners of the Qaum caught between their own self-serving elites and the majoritarian regime?
Mohammad Sajjad
Editor
Urdu fiction writer Zakiya Mashhadi’s short story Diya Baati Ki Bela might help us in finding solutions to the current problem of Hindu-Muslim divisiveness that is politically manufactured and exacerbated
Maulana Azad’s failures in sustaining and multiplying his institutional experiments towards building up a cadre base of Ulama for his brand of politics through the Darul Irshad of Calcutta (1914), and the Madrasa Islamiya of Ranchi (1921) also contributed to his loneliness.
History professor Mohammad Sajjad writes about the many questions that a trip to Turkey raised, which led him to write this piece in which he addresses the majoritarianism, Islamisation, and the systemic population transfers over the years among other themes.
Politics of the Muslim communities in India needs to be redefined. Muslims need to be told and persuaded that contrary to what their leadership and intelligentsia have all along been propagating, legislative and judicial efforts of de-communalising the Muslims and democratising and diversifying the composition of the Muslim dominated institutions, don’t constitute victimisation.
A scholar reminisces his growing up in a sleepy town in Bihar and how its secular fabric changed after loud-mouthed Hindu fanatic leaders landed there
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