India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world's largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India's independence, Muslims have often faced ...

On March 17, violent clashes erupted in Nagpur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra between Hindus and Muslims. While rumors about the alleged desecration of a copy of the Quran reportedly ...

Ismat Ara is a New Delhi-based journalist. She covers politics, crime, gender, culture and environment. More than two years have passed since a picture of me, picked up from my personal social media ...

(RNS) — In India’s northeastern state of Assam, a brutal campaign of displacement is underway. Thousands of families, mostly Bengali-origin Muslims, have been stripped of their homes, their ...

India is home to about two hundred million Muslims, one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, but they are a minority in a predominantly Hindu country. Since India's independence, this ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the ...

NEW DELHI — India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority ...

IN HIS DECADE in power Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has centralised the state to an unprecedented extent. Yet his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has failed to attract many voters in the more ...

Delhi • I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There is little that would identify me as Muslim to begin with, aside from my name. I don’t wear ...