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Blog: Response To Una Attack So Different From Dadri

Mohd Asim | Thursday July 21, 2016

When did we last see such bloodshed in the name of protecting cows? Can the BJP now tame the beast?

Blog: Owaisi Surprised Many With His Remarks, Zakir Naik Hasn't

Mohd Asim | Tuesday July 12, 2016

Asaduddin Owaisi has made a good beginning last week, but will he stay course?

Blog: Ban Triple <i>Talaq</i>, Declare Muslim Personal Law Board Illegal

Blog: Ban Triple Talaq, Declare Muslim Personal Law Board Illegal

Mohd Asim | Monday April 18, 2016

The government and the Supreme Court must weigh in on the side of the Muslim women. The Muslims Personal Law Board must be shown it place.

Blog: Open Letter To Asaduddin Owaisi On '<i>Bharat Mata'</i> Controversy

Blog: Open Letter To Asaduddin Owaisi On 'Bharat Mata' Controversy

Mohd Asim | Wednesday March 16, 2016

Muslims have a serious leadership crisis today. But I am sorry to say, Mr Owaisi you are not the answer.

Blog: Why So Furious, Smriti Irani?

Mohd Asim | Friday February 26, 2016

What Smriti Irani has attempted to do over the last two days is institutionalise a very Brahmanical, Upper Caste, Sangh narrative of Indian culture and its reading.

Blog: Women <i>Qazis</i> Challenge Muslim Clergy. About Time.

Blog: Women Qazis Challenge Muslim Clergy. About Time.

Mohd Asim | Tuesday February 09, 2016

Now, the women have turned their veil into a parcham (banner) of revolt. They are pushing back against patriarchy like never before. "Enough" is their war cry.

Blog: When AMU Killed A Gay Professor

Written by Mohd Asim | Saturday January 30, 2016

In the academic session 2002-03, I was an MA student at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Aligarh Muslim University. Over jokes and smokes under the giant banyan tree that overlooked our department.

Blog: Muslims, Stop Protesting About Insults To The Prophet

Mohd Asim | Monday January 11, 2016

It plays to a trite script all the time. Some obscure loony will say something about the Prophet and the self-professed defenders of the honour of the Prophet of Islam go berserk in rage. Protests, calls for the head of the "offender", mob fury, destruction of public property - pandemonium follows.

Blog: BJP Learns Few Lessons From Trolling

Mohd Asim | Wednesday December 09, 2015

A campaign can be run on propaganda, but governing is a different ball game. And that's a real, hard fact.

Blog: Modi's Attempts To Communalise Bihar

Mohd Asim | Wednesday October 28, 2015

When it comes to political benefits, the Modi mantra is simple: If you can't convince them, communalise them.

Blog: Fight The 'Silence India' Project

Mohd Asim | Saturday October 03, 2015

The senseless and bone-chilling lynching of a 50-year-old man at his home in his village just about 40 kms from the national capital should jolt us as a nation.

Blog: Ansari's Speech Misread by Muslim Leaders Too

Mohd Asim | Saturday September 05, 2015

Vice President Hamid Ansari's stellar address at the golden jubilee of All India Majlis-E-Mushawarat, a deliberative body of Muslim organisations and institutions, has led to much debate.

Blog: What Hardik Patel Has Split Wide Open

Mohd Asim | Friday August 28, 2015

The sight of a 21-year-old breathing fire, rallying lakhs and raising slogans such as "agar hamara haq pyar se nahin doge to chheen ke lenge (if you don't give us our rights with love, we will snatch them by force)" is a picture of both a revolution that is about to come and dangerous mob thuggery depending on the way one looks at it. The question in the slogan is "ki...

Blog: Lessons From The Yakub Memon Execution

Mohd Asim | Thursday July 30, 2015

Let there be a collective outrage on all injustices and a demand for that collective conscience to be satisfied.

Blog: Cancer is About to Strike a Hat-Trick in My Family

Mohd Asim | Monday June 22, 2015

It was past midnight. I was just settling in my bed with my three-year-old. My lawyer wife was sifting through some case papers and we were pestering her to switch off the lights. My phone rang. It was an my childhood friend Rashid, who has lived in Dubai for some years and works as a salesperson with a bank.

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