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In a wide-ranging Nous conversation, the Congress veteran and former Union law minister argues that anxiety over Muslim citizenship is really a symptom of a broader crisis facing Indian democracy, and walks through what the Babri Masjid verdict actually said versus how it has since been read.
Political sociologist Tanweer Fazal argues that the gap between constitutional promise and lived reality has widened into a deliberate project of othering, tracing it from Partition-era debates through CAA, NRC and SIR.
Sociologist Tanweer Fazal argues that what Indian Muslims face today is not simply citizenship erosion suffered by other marginalised groups too, but a deliberate, decades-long project to strip them of any claim to India as their own.
Sociologist Tanweer Fazal tells Nous that India's constitutional promise of equal citizenship has become 'illusive' for Muslims in practice, and traces how the distinction between religions of Indian and non-Indian origin has shaped that gap since before independence.
Veteran journalist Qurban Ali argues that the collapse of ideology has left India without an effective opposition, while pressing Muslims to use the Constitution and the courts as the host questions how much of that burden falls on the community.
Veteran journalist Qurban Ali argues that the real crisis in Indian politics is not only Hindu nationalism's rise but the collapse of ideological commitment across every party, secular and communal alike, leaving Muslims and other minorities without a reliable political home.
Veteran journalist Qurban Ali tells Nous that the collapse of ideological commitment inside India's opposition parties, not just the ruling party's Hindutva project, is what has left minorities without a political address.
War historian Amaresh Misra reads the announced US-Iran agreement as a retreat by Washington, but warns that Lebanon, Israel's politics and the coming 60 days could unravel it.
As Washington and Tehran prepare to sign a fragile peace framework in Switzerland, historian Amaresh Misra argues the deal already reads as an unprecedented American retreat — and a warning for India.
War historian Amaresh Misra tells Nous that the US-Iran deal ending 110 days of conflict amounts to a rare admission of American weakness, even as he warns the truce could collapse within weeks over Israel's continued strikes on Lebanon.
The Kashmiri MP tells Nous that decades of reactive politics, organised around grievance rather than principle, have left Muslims without a coherent answer to majoritarian claims that they don't belong.
In a second long conversation on the Nous Podcast, the Kashmiri MP argues that Indian Muslims have a reactive politics rather than a philosophy, and that the Quran, the Constitution and a shared contract of justice can supply one.
Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi argues that Indian Muslims have spent decades reacting to crises without ever building a coherent political philosophy of their own, and that recovering one, rooted in the Quran's own principles, is the precondition for confronting Hindutva rather than merely surviving it.
Six years after Northeast Delhi's February 2020 riots killed their husbands, Mallika, Nargis and Jahira describe the violence they survived, and a justice system that has still not answered for it.
A documentary returns to the lanes of north-east Delhi to hear from women whose husbands were killed in February 2020, and finds livelihoods, courts and grief all stalled.
Mallika, Nargis and Zahira lost their husbands in the February 2020 Delhi riots — and in the six years since, a legal system that keeps asking them to name attackers they never knew has given them almost nothing.
Irfan Engineer, who has documented communal violence in India since 1993, argues that after 2014 the state stopped merely tolerating riots and started conducting them.
The director of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism argues that India's communal violence has changed in kind since 2014, and that rebuilding trust must begin with justice for every victim before it can move to hearts.
