Whatever be Mr ArjunSingh's motivations in 2006, this time aroundit is the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind -- or more correctly, the struggle over its leaders

BY Arshad Alam 7 June 2017

Rather than providing avenues and spaces which can promote critical thinking and a questioning attitude towards issues of hierarchy and gender bias, AMU actually ends up reinforcing it.

BY Arshad Alam 12 November 2014

Sakshi Maharaj, the BJP MP from Unnao, is only reiterating the long held beliefs of his party on madrasas. But for those who still have some regard for facts, here are some

BY Arshad Alam 14 September 2014

That is what the BJP's minority affairs minister had to say when questioned about the outrage perpetrated by the Shiv Sena MPs in the heart of Delhi. Where's the justice? Who is being appeased?

BY Arshad Alam 24 July 2014

That Penguin has decided to pulp Wendy Doniger's The Hindus should come as no surprise...

BY Arshad Alam 11 February 2014

The dictatorial and anti-academic attitude of the Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia has neither attracted media attention nor elicited any discussion within the teaching community

BY Arshad Alam 23 May 2013

Why is there a deafening sound of silence at the ease with which the government capitulated to the demand for exempting madrasas from the provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) Act?

BY Arshad Alam 10 August 2011

We need to understand Deoband first if we wish to view the recent controversy regarding Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi in perspective.

BY Arshad Alam 27 July 2011

A whole range of self-appointed guardians of Muslims took it upon themselves to turn Jamia Millia University into a minority institution. Did they even think through the implications?

BY Arshad Alam 6 April 2011

Muslims in the Arab world have had enough of their dictators. One hopes that l'affaire Vastanvi would lead to Indian Muslims in general and Deoband students in particular to start articulating a similar demand

BY Arshad Alam 30 January 2011