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From a presidential phone call that erased a red card to a Haitian jersey banned as "too political," the 2026 World Cup exposed how FIFA enforces neutrality unevenly, favoring powerful states and sponsors over weaker ones.
A presidential phone call that froze a red-card suspension became the clearest symbol of a tournament in which football's governing body enforced its own neutrality rules unevenly — hard on weak federations, soft on its most powerful partners.
Economist Abusaleh Shariff describes how decades of village-level data collection, and a Prime Minister's phone call, produced India's first government report measuring Muslim exclusion — and why he insists its answer was never a quota.
Two decades after the Sachar Committee measured the scale of Muslim deprivation in India, the economist who built its data explains how the report came to be written, why it was never withdrawn, and why he opposes the quota it is often credited with demanding.
Economist Abusaleh Shariff tells Nous how a childhood split between a Kannada school and an Urdu classroom led him to a data gap that had kept Muslim deprivation invisible in Indian policymaking for decades, and why he insists the Sachar Committee report has never actually been rejected.
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.
War historian Amaresh Misra, reporting from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral and the renewed strikes that followed it, argues Iran is emerging from its clash with the United States and Israel more confident rather than more contained.
Fresh back from Tehran, the war historian tells Nous that depleted US air defences, a divided Washington and a newly hardened Iranian parliament have turned the idea of a ground invasion into what he calls a fast route to a historic American defeat.
A Holi-season brawl in a West Delhi slum, and the century-old political apparatus that turned it into arrests, bulldozers and a quiet Muslim exodus.
A water-balloon fight that killed a young man in a West Delhi slum became the latest run of a century-old system for converting ordinary friction into communal expulsion, one built on a colonial census, a prison manifesto, and a franchise of street organizations that no longer needs anyone to give the order.
A Holi-season water-balloon fight in a Delhi slum becomes the case study for a Nous documentary essay tracing how a century-old ideological apparatus turns local disputes into engines of Muslim displacement.
Former Rajya Sabha MP Mohammad Adeeb argues that decades of tokenism by Congress, the Samajwadi Party and other self-styled secular formations, not just Hindu nationalist politics, have left Indian Muslims without a real political voice — and proposes a drastic remedy: sitting out the next election.
The former Rajya Sabha MP argues that India's secular parties, not just the BJP, engineered the Muslim community's political disappearance — and that only a collective, cross-community leadership can now reverse it.
The former Rajya Sabha MP tells Nous that the socialist parties born of the JP movement fractured the anti-BJP vote, handed the RSS a legitimacy it could never have won alone, and left Muslims without a genuine political voice of their own.
Veteran journalist and rights activist John Dayal argues that laws against conversion, the exclusion of Dalit Christians from Scheduled Caste status and the squeeze on foreign funding form a single system of enclosure, and that the community lacks the leadership to answer it.
In a wide-ranging conversation, veteran journalist and human rights activist John Dayal traces how anti-conversion law, caste and state complicity have reshaped violence against Christians and Dalits in India over half a century.
In conversation with Nous, the veteran journalist and Christian rights campaigner traces anti-Christian violence in India to a colonial-era caste order that, he argues, still shapes who gets protected and who gets blamed.
Presenting a UN commission of inquiry's findings to the Human Rights Council, Indian jurist S. Muralidhar detailed a pattern of deliberate killing of Palestinian children in Gaza that, he said, continued even after the ceasefire.
