On August 29, more than 5,000 Indian Americans will fill Madison Square Garden for an event called “Universal Oneness Celebrations.” The keynote speaker is Mohan Bhagwat,...
A Photo Essay by Tomohiro Oshima Japan has never declared itself a country of immigration. Through successive revisions of its immigration laws, the government has...
There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in scripture, and permanently available to explain...
The Indian state’s crackdown on independent Muslim voices continued when a court slapped three life sentences on an Islamic writer and Kashmiri activist, Asiya Andrabi, and...
Kerala in Context: Postcolonial Secularism and Neo-Marxist Influence Notwithstanding the diverse cultural and historical trajectories of modern societies, contemporary debates on religion and modernity frequently operate...
Every dictatorship eventually collides with a problem it cannot solve by expanding prisons, perfecting surveillance, or laundering repression through emergency laws. That problem is conscience. Not...
In 1937, philosopher-poet and perhaps the foremost intellectual of Muslim India, Allamah Muhammad Iqbal, wrote a series of letters to the leader of the All Indian...
