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UNIFORM IS NOT A LICENCE TO SILENCE DEMOCRACY When a police officer invokes the Supreme Court to stop a peaceful protest, the first question must be: Where is the order? By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui Senior Journalist, Editor & Author A disturbing question arises from the video showing police officers confronting advocates and citizens during a

FACEBOOK BLOCKS A 12-YEAR-OLD KASHMIR FLOOD REPORT IN INDIA What is Facebook hiding—and who asked it to hide it ? A 2014 report criticising the political use of Kashmir flood coverage is suddenly restricted in India on 21 September 2026. Facebook says the restriction was imposed through an automated system pursuant to “legal requirements” under

THE FIXED FIGHT: HINDUTVA & THE WIRE The Politics of Muslim Representation, Selective Secularism and the Unfinished Legacy of A.G. Noorani By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui Chief Editor, Journalist, Activist & Author There is an uncomfortable question that India’s political and media establishments have avoided for decades: Can apparently opposing political camps nevertheless benefit from keeping

JAMIAT ULAMA-E-HIND IN THE POLITICAL GRIP? Religious Authority, Political Access and the Question of Who Speaks for India’s Muslims By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui Senior Journalist, Editor & Author Introduction: Who controls the Muslim political microphone? Established in 1919 during the freedom struggle, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind describes itself as an organisation that defends Muslims’ religious, cultural, educational

OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN & GLOBAL JOURNALISTS FROM NAGPUR TO GAZA: FOLLOW THE RSS–ISRAEL–INDIA DEFENCE MONEY TRAIL An appeal to newspapers, television networks, digital media, investigative journalists and international news organisations to investigate the political, ideological and financial networks surrounding the RSS and the India–Israel defence relationship To the Editors, Investigative Journalists, Foreign Correspondents, Defence

RSS at 100: Was the Sangh a British Creation? The 1925 Origins, Colonial Connections, Secret-Police Files and the Unanswered Question of Funding By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui Senior Journalist, Editor & Author The allegation A century after the formation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), one of the most provocative questions surrounding its history remains largely

THE FIXED FIGHT How the “Muslim Leadership” Lost the Babri Masjid Battle—and Keeps Losing the Muslim Cause By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui Senior Journalist, Editor & Author A question that Muslims have been afraid to ask For nearly eight decades, Indian Muslims have repeatedly been told that their political, religious and legal interests are being represented

क्या इज़राइल RSS को फंड कर रहा है? प्रो. शम्सुल इस्लाम ने भारत–इज़राइल रक्षा संबंधों पर उठाए गंभीर सवाल मोदी के शासन में भारत–इज़राइल संबंध, गाज़ा युद्ध और “मेक इन इंडिया” हथियार गलियारा लेखक: अहमद सोहेल सिद्दीकी प्रोफेसर शम्सुल इस्लाम ने एक गंभीर और महत्वपूर्ण सवाल उठाया है: क्या इज़राइल केवल नरेंद्र मोदी के भारत

Is Israel Funding the RSS? Prof. Shamsul Islam Questions the India–Israel Defence Nexus India–Israel relations under Modi, the Gaza war and the “Make in India” arms corridor By Ahmad Sohail Siddiqui Professor Shamsul Islam has raised a serious and consequential question: Is Israel merely a strategic defence partner of Narendra Modi’s India, or has a

MODANI: The Ahmed A.R. Buhari Files When an NRI Businessman Went to Jail—and His 1,200-MW Power Plant Changed Hands An investigative examination of Ahmed Buhari, Coastal Energen, the ED and CBI cases, and the Adani-led insolvency takeover By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui The Ahmed A.R. Buhari–Coastal Energen affair involves criminal investigations, prolonged imprisonment, insolvency proceedings, and