On February 13, a man that the whole of India should be proud of was beaten black and blue and left profusely bleeding at Mumbai airport by a bunch of mindless religious hooligans, in the name of ...

The intellectual died in Mumbai at the age of 74 after a long illness. A Muslim who was a friend of AsiaNews, he carried out a relentless fight "against all forms of religious bigotry." Mumbai ...

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising will be awarded the 5th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award by Mumbai-based Centre for Study of Society and Secularism at a function held in ...

Asghar Ali Engineer: BJP considerably weakened our secularism through its partisan agenda. It talked of Hindus, Hindus, Hindutva, Hindu Rajstra, and tried to destroy our secular values. And people ...

Dr Asghar Ali Engineer, a renowned international Islamic and Secular Scholar and an ace social activist, is no more as he breathed his last on Tuesday, 14th May. 2013 at 9. 20 A.M. at Santa Cruz Flat, ...

This is apropos of “The Jihad most needed” by Asghar Ali Engineer (June 18). It is interesting to read Asghar's scholarly approach to the term Jihad — a persistent struggle to keep a society clean and ...

'The Pakistani perception of the Indian Muslims being an oppressed lot is an overdrawn picture. They do have problems, but no government in India has ever denied fundamental rights to the Muslims,' ...

Filmmaker and activist Anand Patwardhan has been awarded the Dr Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award 2024. The Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, which gives the award, ...

A lecture examining how constitutional morality and democratic accountability have been weakened in today's India.

While Asghar Ali Engineer fought with equal vigour against Muslim and Hindu brands of communalism (Shahbano judgement or Babri demolition) his epic battles were against the Syedna (There will never be ...

If the members of the MPLB do not have the courage to abolish this form of divorce, they should at least have the courage to launch an awareness movement among Muslim men and appeal to them not to ...