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Human rights researcher Irfan Engineer argues that since 2014, the Indian state itself — not rogue police officers or unchecked mobs — has become the primary actor in communal violence, and lays out what documentation, law and interfaith work can still do about it.
Journalist Jyoti Yadav spent five years following the migrants and frontline workers of India's pandemic — and found a country that never really reckoned with what happened to them.
Five years on, the journalist behind the book Faith & Fury argues that India's migrant workers, its cremation workers and its district hospitals were failed once and have been given little since.
Journalist Jyoti Yadav spent years documenting India's pandemic migrant crisis for her book "Faith and Fury" — and found a state that undercounted its dead, a caste hierarchy that absorbed the worst of the labor, and survivors whose lives never recovered.
An ex-McKinsey consultant and a madrasa reformer trace how they each arrived at the same conclusion — that reviving Muslim leadership in India means healing a century-old split between religious and worldly knowledge, one person at a time.
A former McKinsey consultant and a madrasa-trained educator explain why years of failure in slums, boardrooms and seminaries led them to a training model that treats the formation of the self, not skill alone, as the thing to be built.
Two institution-builders, one from the corporate world and one from the madrasa system, describe why they abandoned conventional charity and career paths to design leadership programmes meant to heal a century-old split between religious and worldly education among Indian Muslims.
Six decades after an assassin's bullets ended his life at 39, the man who renamed himself out of a stolen inheritance remains one of the most dangerous ideas America ever tried to bury.
Long before he became one of America's most feared orators, Malcolm X was a child whose family was marked for destruction — and tracing that arc explains both the fear he provoked and the transformation that followed his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Journalist Kunal Purohit argues that the campaigns against goats, gatherings and festivals aren't really about religious offence — they're a renewable fuel source for keeping Hindutva mobilized between elections.
Journalist Kunal Purohit tells Nous that the fight over Bakra Eid goats was never about animals at all — it is the latest rotation of a machine that needs a new Muslim target every few weeks to stay relevant.
In a wide-ranging, often incendiary conversation with Nous, the senior journalist Raju Parulekar argues that India's electoral roll revisions are not a fraud-prevention exercise but a mechanism to strip millions of citizenship — and that the opposition has left Muslims to face it alone.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Nous, the Mumbai-based journalist and political analyst argues that the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is less about elections than about stripping millions of Indians, disproportionately Muslim, of citizenship itself.
The legal scholar Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui tells Nous that justice is not a fact courts discover but an assumption they generate — and that understanding modern India's courts requires accepting that law is, by its nature, political.
Legal scholar Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui tells Nous Podcast host Asad Ashraf why justice is never automatic, why constitutions are political documents wearing legal clothes, and why the line between law and power is thinner than citizens like to believe.
Drawing on an insightful conversation with legal scholar Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, this essay explores how law, politics, and authority intersect in constitutional democracies, examining judicial interpretation, constitutional morality, public opinion, and the evolving pursuit of justice.
In this insightful conversation, senior journalist Raju Parulekar joins Bushra Khanum to examine the hidden dynamics of Indian political movements, democratic institutions, media narratives, and the evolving relationship between grassroots politics and the digital public sphere.
Fourteen years after the anti-corruption movement that reshaped Indian politics, senior journalist Raju Parulekar tells Nous it was never the clean, spontaneous uprising it appeared to be — and warns that a new "digital" successor is repeating the same trick.
