Fahad Zuberi

A DM orders a mosque to dial down its loudspeaker. An IPS officer defends the decision. But this is not about noise pollution.

Liberal ideas face the most serious threat from Islam today, and the French are fighting this war for the rest of the world.

If the Hathras rape case is not politicised, it will very soon be wiped off from public memory – only to join thousands of more such cases in the dusty rooms of our courts.

The Richard Dawkins Award to Javed Akhtar brings recognition to the ‘milder strain’ of western rationality in the Indian subcontinent

I abhor the views held by the Tablighi Jamaat, and I wish for their ideological defeat across the world, but I will still defend their right to equality – to be equally miserable in thought and in ideas as other religious groups, and to be treated equally when they default in their actions.

The seven-foot-high wall to hide a slum is a hollow political construct devised to provide a fake facade to our crumbing housing infrastructure

India has to follow the principle of Human Rights, and whoever – Muslim or not, needs us as a society to protect their fundamental rights, must be welcomed.

'The ISRO chief deserves to be criticised and ridiculed at least, reviewed and penalised ideally, for consulting an astrologer/ priest in the affairs of ISRO's launch.'

Hitchens emerges as a voice of resistance that echoes through the twenty first century. It matters today because totalitarianism has created precedence in world politics, and newer totalitarian ideas are on the rise.