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The senior journalist and one-time Anna Hazare confidant tells Nous why he believes the 2011 anti-corruption movement, and the party it produced, trace back to the RSS — and why India's most vulnerable voters should treat the next 'movement' the same way.
In a wide-ranging panel discussion, journalists Asad Ashraf and Aditya Menon join Nous founding editor Ali Javed to argue that neither mainstream nor alternative media has given India's Muslims the vocabulary, representation or institutions they need to defend themselves.
In a wide-ranging panel discussion, four journalists examine why mainstream media, alternative media and existing Muslim organisations have all failed to give India's Muslims durable institutions of their own.
As media failures and political exclusion deepen, Indian Muslims face an urgent challenge: building independent institutions capable of securing representation, dignity, and democratic agency.
From Vote Banks to Stakeholders: Rethinking Muslim Politics Through Local Power, Civic Bargaining, and Democratic Participation
Political consultant Waqar Usmani argues that Indian parties run on managed conflict rather than discipline, and that Muslim politics will only recover once it stops chasing national symbolism and returns to the ward and the constituency.
A political strategist who has run campaigns inside India's biggest consultancies argues that Muslim political identity has been defined from the outside, and that rebuilding it starts not with grand ideology but with wards, municipalities and campuses.
As the BJP wins power in West Bengal for the first time, political analyst Dr Mohammad Reyaz explains why a decade of quiet demographic and narrative shifts, not last-minute vote-roll revisions, decided the state's most consequential election in generations.
The BJP's rise in West Bengal marks a profound shift in identity, representation, and the state's secular political imagination.
Political analyst Mohammad Reyaz argues that the Bharatiya Janata Party's historic breakthrough in West Bengal was powered less by Hindutva rhetoric than by an anti-incumbency narrative that only ever seems to stick when a large-scale Hindu vote consolidation is already under way.
Advocate Talha Abdul Rahman traces a path from small-town Faizabad to Oxford and the Supreme Court of India, and argues that the country's legal system is buckling under choices lawyers, not only judges, keep failing to make well.
Advocate Talha Abdul Rahman traces a legal career built on a father's factory dispute and an Oxford masters into a warning about what he calls the "Assamification" of Indian citizenship law.
From Faizabad to Oxford and the Supreme Court of India, Adv. Talha Abdul Rahman reflects on what it means to practice law, defend constitutional values, and reimagine justice in an unequal society.
The writer and historian argues that the nation-state was never a natural or permanent form of political life, but a specific, capital-driven invention now buckling under a backlash it has no real alternative to.
In a wide-ranging Nous Podcast conversation, the writer Rana Dasgupta argues that the nation-state is not a natural or eternal order but a recent, contingent experiment now straining under the very crises — inequality, migration, imperial legal inheritance, and a collapsing legitimating story — that it was built to manage.
Drawing from an in-depth conversation on nous featuring author and global thinker Rana Dasgupta, this article examines the historical construction of the nation-state, its deep entanglement with capitalism and empire, and the growing crisis confronting modern political order in the 21st century.
A once-routine electoral roll cleanup has stripped roughly 91 lakh names from West Bengal's voter list ahead of the state's April 2026 election, and data analysts, a retired judge and a decorated Air Force officer say the deletions have fallen overwhelmingly on Muslim voters.
Based on an explainer by senior journalist Bushra Khanum, this article examines West Bengal’s massive voter deletion crisis and the growing fears around disenfranchisement, citizenship, and democratic erosion in contemporary India.
