National Moon sighting committee to sit on Tuesday
The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit on Tuesday to fix the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festival of Muslims....
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Bangladesh鈥檚 multi-layered roots of state
THE Bangladesh state in 1971 is complex in its functional identity as it was a state in occupation fighting for liberation. The state formation process followed unorthodox routes, incorporating both formal and informal realities in separate and...
India鈥檚 Congress party promises minority protection and jobs
India鈥檚 main opposition party Congress vowed Friday to protect minorities 鈥� generally seen as a reference to the country鈥檚 Muslims 鈥� while accelerating growth and jobs in a manifesto for an election it is widely expected to lose....
Online hate sows Muslim fears as India votes
After his brother was murdered in anti-Muslim riots, Pervez Qureshi watched the videos he believes incited the killers, part of a wave of hatred being fomented on...
Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography
THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the...