The Milli Gazette

Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia has said that the rising Islamophobia in Indian society has successfully made its way into Hindi cinema as well. He was speaking at the Editors Guild of India's Rajendra Mathur Memorial Lecture on September 4, 2026, in New Delhi. Dhulia said that filmmakers are part of the same society where anti-Muslim propaganda has grown like a cancerous growth. He elaborated that the changing social and political climate has reshaped the stories being told on the screen.

New Delhi: An exhaustive report has just been published for the first time on the mob lynching violence spanning a decade. Titled “Mob Lynching in India — A Record-2014-2024”, this 744-page large format report studies and documents 1,743 incidents of lynching during the period covered and for the first time provides a detailed examination of mob violence, a distinct form of home-grown terrorism that has become a "new normal" across large parts of India in the 21st century.

Over the last 15 years or so, there have been many court- judgements that shocked the collective conscience of the country. They are mainly concerning bomb blasts and other terror- related cases. In the note below, I have critically analysed some of the judgements. 1) Malegaon 2008 bomb blast case (ATS Mah. C.R. No. 18/2008) On 29 Sept. 2008, a massive bomb blast took place in Malegaon (Maharashtra), killing 6 persons and injuring more than 100.

On 25th August, Dr. Ram Puniyani completes his 81 years. After its founding chairperson – Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer – he has been the longest serving Chairperson of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), an organisation that was established to promote communal harmony.

New Delhi: Former Delhi Minorities Commission chairman and president of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, has written a letter to Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha appealing for a comprehensive and impartial investigation into historic human rights violations against Kashmiri civilians by army, security forces, police, and government-backed militants.

Colombia's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world - after the United States - to endorse Israel's illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petro's foreign policy under new far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella. However, Colombia is not an isolated case.

Author: Dr Javed Jamil Publishers: Mission Publications, New Delhi Year: 2026; Pages: 568; Price: Rs 950 ISBN: 978-93-5917-776-2. Reviewed by Abid Faheem It will be worthwhile to start with a quote from the book itself: “It is natural for the people to debate how religion and science coalesce with or contradict each other. But the truth is that scientific theories and systems of governance, more often than not, continue to follow the diktats of the all-powerful economic and political forces.

Since the days of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, proponents of Hindutva had maintained that the special status accorded to Kashmir was an obstacle to its full integration into India. For decades, Hindutva supporters raised this slogan, and finally, on 5 August 2019, the BJP government fulfilled their long-cherished objective by abruptly abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution, thereby ending Kashmir's special status.

Community News Baare duniyā meñ raho ġham-zada yā shaad raho aisā kuchh kar ke chalo yaañ ki bahut yaad raho (It does not matter whether you are happy or sad, but do something so that you are remembered for long) This isn’t an obituary. Nor an elegy. For how do you write an obituary for someone so grand in stature and yet so humble in living, that it defies the usual human qualities.

During a military raid on the small town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, a moment of direct defiance shattered the illusion of total Palestinian submission. Faced with relentless military incursions, land confiscation, and settler harassment and violence, local villagers and farmers refused to retreat.