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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
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Nupur Sharma’s recent tirade was novel in that it went beyond denigrating Muslims and assailed the revered founder of Islam.
Editor's note: Nupur Sharma’s tirade against the Prophet Muhammad—and the domestic and international furore provoked by it—is a fitting milestone for eight years of Narendra Modi’s reign. What is striking is the speed with which a country that not so long ago made a show of its secularity yielded to religious zealotry. Civility in public life, bruised but not extinct in 2014, became one of the earliest casualties of Modi’s ascent to high office. Since 2015, and particularly over the past three years, speech that was once deemed unacceptable on the margins has deluged the mainstream. We have all been spectators to unceasingly bigoted vitriol directed at Muslims by apparatchiks of the ruling party. They have sullied Muslims as fifth-columnists, terrorists and love jihadis. They have incited mobs to slaughter Muslim “traitors”. They have even sanctified sectarian savagery by garlanding Hindus convicted of murdering a Muslim man. This official conduct has precipitated a civilian reign of terror against minorities. We have seen murder reels of Muslims being lynched and axed to death by freelancers. We have seen calls for the eradication of …
Nupur Sharma’s recent tirade was novel in that it went beyond denigrating Muslims and assailed the revered founder of Islam.
Editor's note: Nupur Sharma’s tirade against the Prophet Muhammad—and the domestic and international furore provoked by it—is a fitting milestone for eight years of Narendra Modi’s reign. What is striking is the speed with which a country that not so long ago made a show of its secularity yielded to religious zealotry. Civility in public life, bruised but not extinct in 2014, became one of the earliest casualties of Modi’s ascent to high office. Since 2015, and particularly over the past three years, speech that was once deemed unacceptable on the margins has deluged the mainstream. We have all been spectators to unceasingly bigoted vitriol directed at Muslims by apparatchiks of the ruling party. They have sullied Muslims as fifth-columnists, terrorists and love jihadis. They have incited mobs to slaughter Muslim “traitors”. They have even sanctified sectarian savagery by garlanding Hindus convicted of murdering a Muslim man. This official conduct has precipitated a civilian reign of terror against minorities. We have seen murder reels of Muslims being lynched and axed to death by freelancers. We have seen calls for the eradication of …
The most valuable Mideast fintech is expanding beyond buy-now, pay-later into financial services across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
August was the best month this year for Dubai hotels, a crisis in the kingdom, and Mubadala gets a piece of Luckin.
Big AI moves in the Middle East this week, Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf files for bankruptcy and other updates.
The most valuable Mideast fintech is expanding beyond buy-now, pay-later into financial services across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
August was the best month this year for Dubai hotels, a crisis in the kingdom, and Mubadala gets a piece of Luckin.
Big AI moves in the Middle East this week, Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf files for bankruptcy and other updates.
