Moin Qazi

For the first time, I was doing something that wasn't primarily for myself, or for my parents.

India’s farm distress needs structural solutions, quick fixes won’t do.

There is no issue in wearing religion on your sleeve, but your commitment to secular ideals has to be unflinching.

He is standing at the crossroads.

Unusual heat this summer has resulted in higher fruit-dropping.

Journalism is failing in its role of objective reporting and analysis and continues its job by rehashing tired narratives of 'radical Islam' or a 'fight within Islam'.

The very first revelation to the Prophet - “Read, in the name of your Lord” - and numerous Hadiths stress the superiority of the scholar over the worshipper and the martyr.

While we have been able to fight poverty and continue to record improvement, homelessness remains a big challenge.

We should strive to make new madrasas religious seminaries as well as universities, like Cairo's al-Azhar.

It is using the issue and the BMMA campaign as a tool for wholesale changes in Islamic rules.

The number of suicides rose by 42 per cent between 2014 and 2015, and Karnataka is the new epicentre.

Such band-aids in the past have crippled Indian farming and helped governments avoid uncomfortable reforms.

Building inclusive digital economies requires the collective action of governments, industry, financiers and civil society.

We should applaud ordinary men and women, who have nobody to back them, yet are working doggedly to keep projects rolling.

The real issues in housing the world over, and also India, have less to do with access to finance and more to do with property rights.

The pace of our cashless journey will have to be determined by the ability of our citizens to cope with it.

Rage over the gown of cricketer Mohammed Shami's wife in a picture posted on Facebook is symptomatic of a deeper malaise.

His Swarna Pragati model is just one of the many creative ways panchayats can become harbingers of a larger revolution.

Self-help groups, of 10-20 poor women from similar backgrounds who pool their savings into a fund, are the biggest generators of social capital in villages.

Economic backwardness is a bitter reality for the community and the state can’t run away from it.

It is now becoming a potential site of an emerging repayment crisis.

'Prices have crashed by half and the time to harvest getting over. We fear the situation can lead to an increase in suicides of farmers.'

He told the Muslims that they must under no circumstances accept being 'either oppressors or oppressed'.

When we design solutions that recognise the poor as clients or customers and not as passive recipients of charity, we have a real chance to end poverty.

Ignorance of Islam exists both among Muslims and non-Muslims.

It is a provision for the welfare of widows and orphans and certainly not for the convenience of men.

The truth is that the concept of instant talaq is alien to Islam as it goes against the very spirit of the procedure of divorce laid down in the holy book.

But we are still missing the key issues in the reformist discourse on the community's family laws and practices.

The negative stereotypes that we get to read in sections of the media do not present the true picture of Islamic seminaries.

What’s most important is that development is truly in people’s own hands.