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I was suspended from Jamia for leading a students’ protest and told that people from middle-class backgrounds like mine had no right to protest. A letter was sent to my parents branding me “anti-academic”. Today, the same man lectures Muslims on democracy, while those who invite him seem unaware of what transpired at Jamia before 2014. Memory, however, does not forget.

Jamia Millia Islamia hosted a three-day international conference on “The Quran and Science”, bringing together scholars from India, Iran, and Europe to explore the interface between Quranic thought and contemporary scientific inquiry.

Over 220 Indian and international activists have issued a solidarity statement warning that renewed violence threatens the women-led democratic experiment in North and East Syria.

In a political landscape shaped by ambiguity and post-2019 disillusionment, Agha Ruhullah Mehdi has emerged as a distinctive voice in Jammu and Kashmir. This essay examines how his consistent reliance on constitutional argument, willingness to dissent from his own party, and engagement with questions of memory, accountability, and civil liberties have repositioned him within the region’s political discourse.

The CAA did not create Muslim anger; it triggered it. What followed was not a single-issue protest but the release of decades of accumulated injustice, as Muslims took to the streets not to defend abstractions, but to assert their right to exist as equal citizens.

The Hindu Sena has petitioned President Murmu to release Dara Singh, citing his 26 years behind bars and “exemplary” prison behaviour. Singh was convicted for the 1999 killing of missionary Graham Staines and his two sons. The group claims the reformative purpose of the sentence has been served.

Forty-one years after the gas tragedy, Bhopal’s survivors march each year to demand justice, holding Dow Chemical accountable while confronting decades of governmental neglect and broken promises.

The government’s decision to make the Sanchar Saathi app a compulsory, undeletable feature on every smartphone has triggered widespread anxiety. As users brace for the rollout, fears are rising over deep device access, potential surveillance, and the shrinking space for digital autonomy in India.

The French traveller wrote of approaching Shahjahanabad as its red walls “stretched into the horizon.” Inside, the broad avenues and the splendour of Chandni Chowk startled him—its water channels glinting in the sun, its merchants calling out in many tongues. What struck him most, he noted, was the city's restless energy: courtiers in silk, faqirs in ash, and markets where the world seemed to gather each morning anew.

Ibn Battuta’s chronicles reveal a richly textured India—its swift courier system, its street magicians, and its elaborate royal feasts. He adored the jackfruit, marvelled at how mangoes and ginger were salted and preserved, and recorded everyday meals alongside courtly splendour. His most striking observations centre on Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whom he portrays as brilliant yet ruthlessly erratic, even forcing the entire population of Delhi to march to Daulatabad.

Hansa Mehta was a freedom fighter, reformer and UN delegate who helped make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gender neutral. In 1949, she became India’s first woman to head a co educational university as vice chancellor of Baroda University, introducing progressive faculties and expanding opportunities for women. Her legacy endures in the rights she championed and the institutions she transformed.

AIMIM’s gains in Seemanchal are not a setback for secularism but a reminder of its core promise: equal participation. The party’s rise reflects a marginalised community reclaiming political space after years of neglect. It exposes the complacency of secular parties that took Muslim support for granted. Rather than fragmenting secular politics, AIMIM pushes it to be more inclusive, accountable, and grounded in real representation.