Thaha Ibrahim runs the last Jewish embroidery shop in India's Kochi - and keeps the memory of an unusual friendship alive.

Delhi • I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There is little that would identify me as Muslim to begin with, aside from my name. I don’t wear ...

How the Babri legacy and Bengal politics expose rising majoritarian pressure and democratic erosion; explore what this means ...

Every Indian Muslim knows about the pause: the moment when another Indian, usually a Hindu, hears your name, waits a few seconds, and then, with a furrowed brow or a step back, acts surprised and ...

In the past three years it has grown faster than India as a whole. UP was “once regarded as a sick state”, says Mr Adityanath. Now it is “one of India’s economic growth engines”. What changed? The ...

The online debate follows a stormy exchange in Parliament after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at an event marking 150 years ...

How generations of Muslim organisers built India’s Left movements yet vanished from party memory and leadership ...

From majoritarian communalism to minority-specific fundamentalism, how have Muslim women navigated new vulnerabilities over ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world's largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India's independence, Muslims have often faced ...

Shahdullah Baig stands among the rubble of what was once his modest two-bedroom home, his belongings buried under debris and broken bricks. “In the blink of an eye, my home was demolished,” said the ...

FILE- Unidentified Muslim women walk past a board displaying the name of the Hindu nationalist group Sri Ram Sena Hindustan in a residential neighborhood in Belagavi, India, October 7, 2021. Credit: ...