On 6th September 2025, Free Voice organised a reading session. The book chosen was A Moral Reckoning: Muslim Intellectuals in Nineteenth century Delhi (2005, OUP) by Mushirul Hasan. The session was proposed by budding sociologist Zeeshan Husain, an admirer of Hasan’s work since his college days. The session aimed to introduce this important work to young readers and encourage them to read it whenever they could.
Where are they queuing, standing on fragile limbs
Squatting calmly on the floor, feeding babies, massaging dry bones?
Aijaz taught universities in India, Canada, and the United States, as well as lectured from the Philippines to Mexico. He also spent time on building up the confidence of new intellectuals in our long-term battle of ideas.
Parents who took loans to fund degrees are watching their children return home qualified but jobless. People in their thirties and forties, once confident professionals, now find themselves unsure of what skills to learn next or how to position themselves in a world that rewards visibility more than depth.
India must be cautious. It cannot afford to be dragged into the orbit of U.S. economic and military designs, particularly when it comes at the cost of its own sovereignty.
Bangla speaking Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal are detained and deported to Bangladesh, as they are alleged to be Bangladeshi.
The Assam government has evicted more than 3,500 families in five eviction drives across four districts during June and July 2025.
It records the daily life of the Murshidabadi day labourers. They come from nearby villages to the town for work. Some day, they are hired. They have no way but to return home in empty hands on many days.
By Ozan Ozavci Before the US-led coalition’s occupation of Iraq starting in March 2003, there was at least one subject upon which certain advocates and opponents of the war agreed: that the invasion was imperialistic. Both sides weaponised the historical role…
Being a Bangla-speaking Indian citizen tends to be bad. To be a Bangla-speaking Muslim Indian citizen is worse. And to be a Bangla-speaking Muslim Indian citizen hailing from Murshidabad is the worst. A crime indeed!