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Moin Qazi

Moin Qazi

The writer is a researcher and development professional who has spent four decades in the development sector. He holds doctorates in economics and english, and has authored books on religion, rural finance, culture and handicrafts.

By Moin Qazi

Why I am a better person after every Ramadan

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

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Farmers in crisis: Why loan waiver is both bad politics and bad economics

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

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Being Muslim and Indian go hand-in-hand. You don’t need to compromise your faith

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

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Modi must give up his hubris if he wants India to succeed

He is standing at the crossroads.

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Heat wave is snatching the juicy and famous Nagpur orange from us

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

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Media must desist from fanning anti-Muslim sentiments

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'.

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What Yogi Adityanath can do for madrasas

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.

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Why Modi's 'housing for all' may turn out to be a game-changer

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

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A look at 150 years of India’s Deoband seminary, Darul Uloom

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

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BJP affidavit on triple talaq is part of saffron agenda - even Muslim women are jittery

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

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