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Policing And Minorities
2007-11-06 06:46:00 Mahatma Gandhi had said that quality of democracy should be judged from the way minorities are treated. Democracies are participative system of governance but numbers assume great importance in it and when it is multi-religious or multi-cultural society, those in larger numbers tend to dictate to those who are fewer in numbers. It has been ... More About: Society , Terrorism , India , Minorities , Featured
Tehelka, Journalists Lead Indians to Redeem Their values
2007-11-03 23:10:00 Tehelka, the intrepid news magazine did what the Indian government should have done in the past five years. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to the editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal and reporter Ashish Khetan who took enormous risk to procure evidence on video tapes about the planning of the genocide perpetrated by the Gujarat state government in February – March 2002. The tapes also record admissions of suppression of evidence and bribery by the public prosecutors to protect the guilty. The culpable Gujarat state government (still in power), got away with it, because at the time their party (BJP) was also in power at the center in Delhi. In 2004 elections for the central Parliament, the Indian electorate exhibited maturity by defeating the repressive sectarian coalition in favor of a secular coalition dominated by the Congress party. However the Congress has been reticent to bring the Gujarat government to the bar of justice. It is afraid of being falsely tarred by the fascists,... More About: Indians , Values , Lead , Tehelka , Journalists
?Wahhabism? in India
2007-11-03 03:38:00 The term ‘Wahhabi’ is a deeply contested and much debated one. It is derived from the name of the eighteenth century Najdi Hanbali Muhammd ibn Abdul Wahhab, although, interestingly enough, Abdul Wahhab was not his name but that of his father. That itself clearly indicates that the term is rather loosely used and is often ... More About: Islam , India , Featured
Liar Lawyer
2007-11-01 16:27:00 Advocate Arvind Pandya was the public prosecutor, he represented people of Gujarat who were victims of Gujarat genocide of 2002. His job was to follow the case, prosecute people who looted, killed, and raped or helped in any of these acts. He was the hope for thousands of victims of the year 2002 that shamed ... More About: India , Lawyer , Journalism , Justice
De-recognition Of Champaner World Heritage Site
2007-11-01 06:07:00 It is unfortunate how all fundamentalists, both Hindu and Muslim, share a general dislike for all that is good and beautiful in this world. First it was the turn of the Taliban to tear down the beautiful sculptures of Lord Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan and now it is the turn of the Saffron brigade ... More About: Politics , India , Culture , World , Heritage
Tehelka Expose: The Political Context
2007-10-29 07:18:00 Guest Post by Bhupinder Singh Despite the hoopla surrounding the Tehelka expose of Narendra Modi?s role in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, it is unlikely to have a negative fallout on Mr Modi?s immediate electoral prospects- indeed it is likely that it will on the contrary provide a surge in favour of Modi, unless there is ... More About: Politics , India , Political , Expose , Featured
How is Modi different from Thackeray?
2007-10-27 19:31:00 Did Tehelka reveal something really extra-ordinary? And were the reactions different? Absolutely no. The right-wingers were quick to dub the expose a sham because according to them Tarun Tejpal is under the influence of ISI. This conspiracy theory was designed to tarnish the image of the most successful Chief Minister in India at present. Narendra ... More About: Politics , Islam , Gujarat , Fanatics , Modi
Education, Employment, Muslims and India
2007-10-27 19:15:00 India is home to second largest Muslim community in the world. This is a matter of pride for Indians of all faiths including Muslims . We are happy that our forefathers participated in the freedom struggle. We are happy that they chose to stay in India even when opportunities seemed to be better across the border. ... More About: India , Education , Employment , Duca
Refuge of the Scoundrel
2007-10-27 07:40:00 In the context of the Gujarat Tehelka expose India needs to wake up and take notice. I am not asking about taking notice of the act because that has been known to all for long through works like Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution. India needs to take notice of the reactions to the expose. It is utterly sad that ... More About: Politics , Fanatics , Featured
Babu Bajrangi: Face Of Hindutva
2007-10-25 20:28:00 Tehelka did it again, this time exposing lies told by the Hindutva brigade about genocide in Gujarat. Listen from Babu Bajrangi himself caught by Tehelka’s spycam. NARENDRA MODI visited Godhra on the day of the burning of coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express. His outburst provided the first sign to Sangh workers that the time to ... More About: Terrorism , India , Face , Fanatics , Featured
Petition: Allow Al-Jazeera to Downlink in India
2007-10-25 11:42:00 Target url I have written about Al-Jazeera not being allowed to downlink in India before. Nothing has changed since then (who expected anything to happen? ) (In the meantime, I’ve loved this interview of Alice Walker. Have a look, it’s only about 15 mins.) Anyway, determined not to give up, I’ve prepared a petition at Petition Online ... More About: Al Jazeera , To Do
58 life sentences!
2007-10-25 02:24:00 A dream day of Judicial activism in India ! 4 cases, 58 life sentences! Amarmani Tripathi, the petty criminal, turned mafia don, turned politician, turned king maker in UP has finally been convicted. He and his wife have been given a lifer in the Madhumita Shukla murder case by the Dehradun court. He dabbled across the whole political spectrum in UP ... More About: Politics , Life , Sentences , Sentence
Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview
2007-10-24 01:07:00 Waris Mazhari, a leading Islam ic scholar, is the editor of the New Delhi-based Tarjuman-i Dar ul-Ulum, the official organ of the Old Boys’ Association of the Deoband Madrasa. In this interview he talks about the problems that mark inter-sectarian relations among the India n Muslim ulema. YS: The Quran and Hadith places much stress on the ... More About: Indian , Muslims , Interview
Khuda Ke Liye
2007-10-19 03:31:00 Khuda Ke Liye is a Pakistan i movie which has smashed all box office records there. A movie that has become a craze all over Pakistan, so much so, that on one hand there was a fatwa against it by some radical maulvis and on the other hand an endorsement from Pervez Musharraf. The director of ... More About: Movies , Islam , Featured , Newsweek
Anti-social school turns Muslim girl students away
2007-10-18 13:29:00 Eidul-fitr proved to be a good time to bring sorrow to Muslim girl students. Around 100 Muslim girl students were turned away by a Parsi-run English medium school in Poona (Pune), Maharashtra for applying Mehndi (Hina/Hena) on their hands. Principal Arnita Batra said that the children have been asked not to come to school for ... More About: Social , India , Culture , Heritage , Students
Picture Of The Day: Sikhs Shower Flowers On Muslims On Eid
2007-10-18 00:30:00 Guest Post by Hindustani The flowers were raining outside the Eidgah in Bhopal. The beauty of this picture lies in the fact that Sikh boys are welcoming the Muslims coming out of Eidgah after offering the Namaz with flowers. The Sikh community welcomes the Muslims after Namaz in Bhopal, as a goodwill gesture. For decades the ... More About: India , Culture , Flowers , Heritage , Picture
Barkatullah: PM Of Govt Of India-In-Exile And A Revolutionary
2007-10-17 23:27:00 Professor Barkatullah, the first Prime Minister of the Government of India in-exile (Raja Mahendra Pratap was president) that was formed in 1915, was a great patriot and amongst the founders of Ghadar Party, who spent all his life to propagate revolutionary ideas for the overthrow of British rule in India, and ultimately passed away in ... More About: Politics , Featured , Revolutionary , Exile
A Message From Ajmer Sharif On Eid
2007-10-15 01:57:00 The terrible bomb-blasts in Ajmer has shaken all of us very deeply. I still couldn?t believe what I saw, heard and witnessed on that fateful Thursday evening as I sat in our balcony facing the Dargah Sharif to break my day-long fast with other members of my family. Our house ‘Chishty Manzil’ is just opposite ... More About: Terrorism , India , Culture , Heritage , Message
Divisions and Differences
2007-10-11 18:26:00 Friends, As Eid is approaching which is indeed a great festival for all of us to celebrate . A festival which symbolize the feeling of Brotherhood and togetherness. But I am in a dilemma whether there is going to One EID this time or again we will be having two or three EIDS. Unfortunately today we are ... More About: Society , Islam , Differences , Featured , Diff
Munshi Premchand and Idgah!
2007-10-11 12:52:00 ‘Ramzan ke poore tees roze ke baad id aayi hai, …kheto me ajeeb raunaq hai,aasman par ajeeb lalima hai’ - Idgah Munshi Premchand was arguably the greatest story writer in the Hindi/Hindustani language. He started writing in the Urdu script under the pen name Nawab Rai but later shifted to the Devnagari script to be accessible ... More About: Islam , India , Culture , Heritage , Featured
An Eid without my A.N. Singh Uncle
2007-10-11 12:36:00 It was 1979 when my father got a transfer from Allahabad to Lucknow due to family reasons. I was a small kid then. All my dad’s friends were in Allahabad, so it must have been a hard decision for him. For me and my younger brother Lucknow, which incidentally is my mom’s city, was certainly more ... More About: Politics , Singh , Uncle
A Ramadan visit to the two Holy Masjids
2007-10-09 20:22:00 One of the great advantages of staying in Saudi Arabia is that you get to visit these blessed places often. Alhamdulillah, Sameer and I visited Madinah & Makkah in the Holy month of Ramadan and enjoyed the hospitality of Muslims who inhabit this lovely place. Wednesday 2100 hours We took a budget flight to Madinah after office ... More About: Islam , World , Featured , Visit
A Trip to Gujarat
2007-10-09 18:32:00 ‘Modi Sahib has wrought a revolution in Gujarat ’ announced the glum-looking corpulent businessman sitting on the berth next to mine on the train to Ahmedabad recently. He proudly introduced himself as a Nagar Brahmin, even though I did not ask him his caste. ‘We now have regular electricity for our industries, new superhighways and massive ... More About: India , Trip , Fanatics , Featured
Socio-Political Exclusion Main Cause Of Partition
2007-10-08 22:11:00 Our country saw the tragedy of partition at the time of independence. This partition was also direct result of sense of socio-political exclusion and fear of further exclusion in united independent India on the part of Muslim educated elite. The British colonial rule provided opportunities for more education, particularly to the scions of jagirdars (feudal ... More About: Society , Politics , Political , Main
A Great Muslim Reformer- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
2007-10-07 02:14:00 October 17th, reminds us of a great Muslim reformer , educationist and a legendary figure , Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, who was born on this date in 1817 in Delhi. Aligarh Muslim University which became a symbol of Muslim quest towards modern education ,was the brain Child of this great personality. Born in a noble family of ... More About: Society , Politics , Islam , India
Why Celebrate only ?The Mahatma??
2007-10-06 10:43:00 Few days back on the occassion of Gandhi Jayanti a friend of mine wrote this on a forum: I wonder, was this the only guy who got us free from the british rule ? why not we celebrate the birthday of BAHADUR SHASHTRI ,on same scale & with same happiness, whose date of birth was ... More About: Politics , Celebrate , Mahatma
Pakistan?s contribution to Indian Muslims
2007-10-05 21:13:00 The provocation for writing this article was some recent comments accusing the India n Muslims of being apologetic to other Indian s by speaking out against Pakistan . My intention is to explore whether it is apologetics or it is a matter of the heart when the Indian Muslim speaks on these matters. Out of some good articles ... More About: Culture , Heritage
I Am A Walking Religion
2007-10-04 23:45:00 GUEST POST BY DR. SHABANA MIR Everything I do is based on text. Everything I do is religious. Everything I am is Qur?anic. I am nothing except an embodied religion. Non-Muslims are ?people.? Whole, complicated, ethnic, contextual, diverse, multidimensional. Christians are human beings. Muslims, however, are solid religion. There are no spaces in a Muslim for humanity, for anything but religion. Everything ... More About: Religion , Islam , Walking , Featured
Identity And Social Exclusion-Inclusion: A Muslim Perspective
2007-10-04 08:31:00 In multi-religious, multi-cultural democracies problem of identity and social exclusion-inclusion become extremely important. Under authoritarian societies due to suppression problem of exclusion remains hidden and does not surface until it is gravely aggravated. But a democratic society, being open and based on rights, question of identity and social exclusion and inclusion becomes very important and ... More About: Society , Social , India , Muslim , Featured
Any Check For Such Malicious Journalism?
More articles from this author:2007-10-04 05:46:00 Recently I came across one article in Times of India from a correspondent named Akhilesh Kumar Singh on the present scenario of Aligarh Muslim University. The title of the article says - AMU: Where degrees are sold like toffees. That malicious heading forced me to ponder on few drawbacks of the present day Journalism where ... More About: Politics , Check 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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