Muslims

Despite the claim of Islamists that sharia is the universally accepted law of Islam, the word is controversial, and its opponents are mostly Muslims

In Howrah, West Bengal, a significant number of Hindu women dressed in red and yellow saris enthusiastically participated in the Hanuman Jayanti shobha yatra. The procession saw a heavy deployment of security personnel in Gulmohar colony, where women from all over Howrah arrived to take part. Despite the potential for violence, the women remained undeterred, […]

A complaint has been filed in Bihar’s Muzzafarpur against yoga guru and Patanjali Yog Peeth leader Ramdev for his controversial remarks against the Muslim and the Christian communities at a religious gathering ion Barmer, Rajasthan on Saturday. Social activist Tamanna Hashmi has filed a complaint in a Muzzafarpur court, accusing Ramdev of being “attention-seeker” and […]

But unfortunately, Pakistan has turned the cricket ground into an invisible battleground with the intent to play a much more sinister game.

Indian Muslims generally can make fun of gods and goddesses of other faiths, but when it comes to their own, out come the swords and stones.

Analysts over the world have been watching the recent rise of Turkey with extreme interest. It made a certain kind of sense when experts like Brzezinski or Friedman predicted Turkey’s rise as a regional power. But that kind of sense that builds itself up around forecasts printed on the pages of a book usually gets […]

If there is one reality that drives home the point that freedom-loving, liberal secular, ordinary Muslims are the first victims of the orthodox, ossified, political Islamism – it is honour killing. Unfortunately, in India, it devours the non-Muslims too in its brutality – the ones who dared to challenge the ‘honour’ of the Muslim ummah […]

  NEW DELHI: At a ration shop near Kushal Chowk, barely 200 meters away from the mosque where the communal clash during Saturday’s Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra broke out in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, Amit Kumar, is charitable in his comments over harmony between Hindus and Muslims. But, with a pause and some caution, he has a […]

Kashmir was once again rocked by yet another shocking case of acid attack on a young Kashmiri girl by a Kashmiri man. The man was angry at the girl for spurning his advances. The girl is admitted to the hospital in a grievously injured condition and is fighting for her life. What is alarming is […]

In a no holds barred interview with The New Indian’s Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, Prof. Meenakshi Jain answers the biggest controversial questions about the historians accused of white-washing facts and selective reading of Indian history. Jain explains why she remained an isolated voice among historians for challenging their unscholarly approach to history writing and education in […]