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A special revision of West Bengal's electoral rolls has struck nearly 91 lakh names from the voter list ahead of the state's assembly election, and the pattern of who was struck off raises hard questions about whether the exercise was ever neutral.
As West Bengal voted in record numbers, Kolkata-based researcher Sabir Ahmed lays out the data behind his claim that the state's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls disproportionately deleted Muslim voters — and warns the fight over it will outlast the election.
As millions faced scrutiny, deletions, and bureaucratic uncertainty under the SIR process, Bengal’s record voter turnout became more than an election statistic—it became a referendum on citizenship, dignity, and democratic belonging.
As West Bengal recorded its highest-ever voter turnout, researcher Sabir Ahmed argues the Special Intensive Revision that preceded it disproportionately erased Muslim voters from the rolls, and warns that the fight for their restoration is only beginning.
In the world’s largest democracy, representation should reflect reality. Yet a persistent gap raises deeper concerns. This article examines how delimitation and electoral design quietly reshape political power—and what it means for minority voice in India.
An analysis of Lok Sabha and assembly constituency boundaries shows how India's delimitation process, combined with reservation policy and geography, keeps Muslim political representation far below the community's share of the population.
Muslims make up 14 percent of India's population but win barely 4 percent of its parliamentary seats, and a Nous investigation into how constituency boundaries are drawn suggests the gap is not an accident of geography alone.
Drawing on a conversation with Dr. Waris Mazahri, this article traces the evolution of Modern Ilm al-Kalam in South Asia, examining how thinkers from Shah Waliullah to Muhammad Iqbal engaged the challenges of modernity, science, and secular thought.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Nous, the scholar Dr Waris Mazahri traces two centuries of Muslim thinkers trying, and mostly failing, to rebuild Islamic theology for a world remade by modern science.
The alignment with Israel is not merely an ideological affinity. It is the logical expression of a domestic political architecture in which Islam must remain, permanently and visibly, the civilisational threat. The fortress needs a siege to justify its walls.
In a wide-ranging conversation on his new book, the Delhi scholar traces two centuries of attempts, from Shah Waliullah to Muhammad Iqbal, to reconcile Islamic theology with modern science and philosophy, and argues the project remains dangerously incomplete in South Asia today.
Muslims in West Bengal are electorally decisive yet structurally marginalized. Despite shaping political outcomes, their access to education, jobs, healthcare, and political representation remains limited, alongside rising concerns over voting rights through SIR.
As millions face deletion from electoral rolls, questions around citizenship, constitutional rights, and democratic integrity are becoming impossible to ignore. This article examines the politics, implications, and institutional crisis surrounding India’s voter revision process.
Days before West Bengal votes on rolls purged of nearly a crore names, economist Parkala Prabhakar tells Nous that the Special Intensive Revision is not an electoral clean-up but a slow-motion project to redefine who counts as a citizen.
As West Bengal votes on rolls that have shed nearly a crore names, economist and election-reform campaigner Parkala Prabhakar argues the Special Intensive Revision is less a cleanup of voter lists than a slow redrawing of who counts as an Indian citizen.
Based on a detailed podcast discussion hosted by senior journalist Bushra Khanum featuring geopolitical commentator Bobby Naqvi, this article examines the emerging US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad, the shifting balance of power in West Asia, and the fragile architecture of a changing global order.
As Iranian and American delegations hold their first face-to-face talks since 1979, a fragile two-week pause conceals unresolved fights over Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz, and whether Israel will let diplomacy survive.
The 1905 Partition of Bengal was not simply an administrative act or a communal divide. It's making and responses reveal how regional inequalities and competing political visions rather than religion defined one of the most consequential moments in India’s history.
