The Sudanese Teddy Bear Saga

President Omar al-Bashir decided to overturn a court ruling convicting Gillian Gibbons for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, a rare victory for progressive, moderate Islam.

Life on the Periphery in the Absence of Humanism

While the clergy and the liberal intellectuals bicker, the million dollar question remains where all the moderates have gone...

’Moderate’ vs ’Severe’ Muslims

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra