How generations of Muslim organisers built India’s Left movements yet vanished from party memory and leadership
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Mohammad Ali is the recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia. He is a Senior Associate Editor at Outlook, based in Delhi. He tweets at @hindureporter
Pantone’s first-ever white Colour of the Year is less a design forecast and more a cultural diagnosis: a world overwhelmed by noise reaching for clarity, calm, and a psychological reset.
Ten years after the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq, Bisada has re-emerged as a case study in how caste power, political patronage, and state complicity can reshape both justice and memory. The village that once made national headlines now stands transformed by infrastructure, attention, and a narrative in which the accused — not the victim — are seen as the wronged.
As the BJP pushes into Tamil Nadu, it runs up against a 100-year-old ideology built on language, social justice, rationalism and resistance to cultural uniformity. What unfolds here may determine the future architecture of Indian democracy itself. Tamil Nadu achieved capitalist modernity without surrendering social justice or regional pride—the paradox that unsettles Hindutva economists.
Behind the NDA’s sweeping victory lies an Assembly crowded with men accused of the gravest crimes.
Shah Bano had gone to court for Rs. 200 a month. But what she received was a permanent public trial
Behind the NDA’s landslide win lies a pivotal development: the BJP is now positioned to move beyond its past dependence on Nitish Kumar, once the kingmaker of Bihar politics.
UP government has moved to lower court with a request to withdraw murder and related charges against all accused in the 2015 Dadri lynching case.
Mukesh Sahani likens Modi’s outreach to a fisherman’s bait, calls Nitish a tired leader, and insists that Bihar’s backward castes “can’t be fooled anymore.”
Locals recall shattered windows, mangled bodies, and flames lighting up the night after powerful explosion near Sis Ganj gurdwara.
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