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In the first episode of Nous's "First Principles" series, researcher Ali Javed argues that after 2014, Hindutva stopped needing the RSS as its vehicle — because the Indian state itself became Hindutva's body.
In the opening episode of a new Nous Podcast series on political theory, the researcher argues Hindutva has evolved from a pragmatic ethnic-nationalist project into a worked-out metaphysics with structural parallels to Zionism.
This Nous Explainers episode argues that the deeper force behind India's Muslim citizenship debates is not legal status alone, but a wider project of denationalization that no display of loyalty can dissolve.
Political scientist Prof. Tanweer Fazal argues that what Indian Muslims face is not simply the erosion of citizenship rights suffered by other groups, but a deeper project that questions their very claim to belong to the nation.
In a Nous Explainers conversation, a host and an unnamed guest argue that Indian Muslims face not just contested paperwork but a deeper, older project of being cast as permanent outsiders to the nation.
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.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Nous Podcast, the Punjab-based journalist Shiv Inder Singh traces the centuries of shared devotion, rescue and grief that bound Sikhs and Muslims together in undivided Punjab, and the political project now trying to write that history out of memory.
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.
As students at Delhi's Jantar Mantar celebrated forcing out India's education minister over a leaked medical entrance exam, a deeper and older exclusion from schooling, sharpest among India's Muslims, went almost entirely unmentioned.
The "Cockroach Janta Party" protests forced out India's education minister over a leaked medical entrance exam, but the movement never asked who never made it to the starting line at all.
The 'Cockroach Janta Party' protests forced out India's education minister, but a Nous analysis argues the exam-hall unfairness they targeted is only the last stage of a race decided years earlier for the country's Muslims.
As Rampur's development authority orders most of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University demolished within fifteen days, Azam Khan's wife Dr. Tazeen Fatma describes a prison regime and a political abandonment both designed, she says, to break her husband.
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.
With a 15-day demolition notice hanging over Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, Nous spoke to students, faculty and the vice-chancellor about what they stand to lose.
A Rampur university named for a freedom fighter faces a demolition order that students and faculty say is aimed less at illegal construction than at its jailed founder.
A 15-day demolition notice against Mohammad Ali Jauhar University has left students, faculty and its Vice-Chancellor accusing the state of using zoning law to settle a political score.
From a presidential phone call that lifted a red-card ban to a Peace Prize for Donald Trump, FIFA's 2026 World Cup exposed how selectively its neutrality rules are enforced.
