Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari, former Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, argues that judges are not always pressured into unjust rulings — many simply become too frightened to rule justly, and Muslims have learned to predict which way a case will go before it is even heard.
Saharanpur MP Imran Masood says the demolition of the mosque inside the district collectorate was illegal, that the case belongs in court rather than on the street, and that he will protect the mosque and the temple alike.
As the collectorate mosque comes down in a disputed overnight demolition, Saharanpur's Congress MP lays out the land records he says prove the drive was illegal — and appeals to Muslims to fight it in court, not the street.
Shaheen Khan and Nafeesa Khan say they were dragged into a room at Saket police station, beaten, and asked again and again whether they were Muslim — and that days later, no one had been held responsible.
Shaheen Khan and Nafeesa Khan say officers at a Delhi police station stripped them of their phone, dragged them upstairs and beat them with a baton after spotting a caller ID that read Mohammad Khan — and three days later, still no FIR has been filed.
The journalist and Amnesty International India chair argues that a new, impatient generation has cracked open Narendra Modi's aura, even as the deeper machinery of Hindutva remains untouched.
Author and columnist Aakar Patel argues that 2025's youth-led protests exposed something India hadn't seen in Narendra Modi's twelve years in power: the sudden, generational collapse of fear.
Author and former Amnesty International India chair Aakar Patel argues that a leaderless Gen Z revolt, a forced ministerial resignation, and the demographic impossibility of a legally declared Hindu Rashtra together mark the most vulnerable moment of Narendra Modi's twelve years in power — even as he accuses the opposition of failing to give India's Muslims any political voice of their own.
In a self-published book that most Indian publishers refused to print, journalist Dayashankar Mishra traces mob lynching from Pune's Mohsin Sheikh to Dadri's Mohammad Akhlaq, arguing it is not spontaneous rage but an organised political weapon fuelled by hate speech.
In a self-published book built from years of ground reporting, journalist Dayashankar Mishra argues that mob lynching in India is not a spontaneous eruption of rage but the last stage of an engineered, rewarded chain of hate speech — one that courts, mainstream media and the political opposition have all gone quiet about.
Journalist Dayashankar Mishra's self-published book argues mob lynching in India runs on hate speech as fuel and impunity as reward, and that the silence around it now implicates courts, cinema and the opposition alike.
Historian Dr. Shamsul Islam argues that the two-nation theory usually blamed solely on Jinnah has a documented pedigree in Hindu nationalist politics decades older — and that the Muslims who organised against Partition in 1940 have been almost entirely written out of the story.
Historian Shamsul Islam argues that a 1943 Delhi gathering of nearly a hundred thousand people, representing the majority of India's Muslims, opposed Partition — and that both the Muslim League's mandate and the roots of the Two-Nation Theory have been badly misremembered.
Historian Shamsul Islam argues the two-nation theory was pioneered by Hindu nationalist leaders decades before Jinnah, and that the Muslim League's 1946 mandate came from barely five percent of Muslims who could even vote — a history erased along with the mass movement that opposed Partition.
As protests reshape Indian politics after twelve years of BJP dominance, commentator Raju Parulekar tells Nous that Muslims are only just beginning to shed a fear built up over a decade — and argues the blame for it extends far beyond the BJP.
In conversation with Nous Podcast, the Mumbai commentator argues that anti-Muslim hatred in India predates the BJP and implicates Congress and the socialist parties too, even as he insists the tide is turning.
Mumbai commentator Raju Parulekar argues that a youth-led uprising over the NEET paper leak was hijacked by Arvind Kejriwal's camp before it could win anything more than a junior minister's resignation — and weighs what, if anything, it changed for India's Muslims.
Months after a paper-leak scandal sent thousands of students into the streets and into police lathis, a Mumbai commentator argues the protest's legacy is being fought over as fiercely as the government that provoked it.
Weeks after student-led protests forced a minister's resignation, the commentator returns to Nous Podcast to argue the movement was quietly negotiated away from within, even as he insists its underlying gains can't be undone.
Senior journalist Shiv Inder Singh tells Nous host Bushra Khanam Fahad why Punjab's syncretic Sikh-Muslim past still shapes its politics — and why Hindutva treats Sikhs and Muslims by two very different rulebooks.
Journalist Shiv Inder Singh explains why Punjab remains the one north Indian state where Hindutva politics has failed to take root, and what the BJP is trying to do about it.
Tanzeen Fatma, wife of the jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, speaks about the demolition order threatening the Rampur university he built, and the silence she says has met it from her own party's leadership.
As authorities move to demolish the university he built, Dr. Tazeen Fatma describes prison conditions for Azam Khan and their son that she says were designed to humiliate, not merely to punish.
Fresh from covering the funeral of Iran's Supreme Leader, war historian Amaresh Misra argues Washington is threatening an escalation it currently lacks the equipment to deliver.
