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Whose Mecca is this?
2007-08-23 09:08:00 As I read this article on Yahoo recently, a sense of resignation hit me. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on _re_mi_ea/mecca_lost_heritage Mecca ’s hallowed skyline transformed: Excerpts The building boom is in some cases destroying Mecca’s historic heritage, not just overshadowing it. In 2002, Saudi authorities tore down a 200-year-old fort built by the city’s then-rulers, the Ottomans, on a hill overlooking the Kaaba to ... More About: Politics
Sanskrit as the link language?
2007-08-22 18:13:00 Dr. Subramanian Swamy while celebrating Hindu Unity Day in US made the following comment: He also suggested that Sanskrit, not Hindi, to be made the link language of India as it connects Indians to their past. I have studied Sanskrit for 5 years and studied in Hindi medium school for 10 years and I can ... More About: Society , Culture , Link , Language
Legendary Writer Qurratulain Hyder Passes Away
2007-08-21 13:43:00 zamaanaa baRe shauq se sun rahaa thaa ham hii so gaye daastaaN kahte kahte Sad news for Urdu lovers: Ainee aapa is no more. Through Mayank Austen Soofi I got to know about her demise. She was one of the shining lights of Urdu literature and her absence will be acutely felt. Eminent Urdu writer Qurratulain Haider passed ... More About: India , Culture , Heritage , Writer
Chak De India!
2007-08-20 18:26:00 Chak De is the best sports movie ever made in Bollywood (assuming that Lagaan was not about sports in the conventional sense). But it is also one of the best ever depicting the India n Muslim. It is the new India’s Garam Hawa where it finally ends on a positive note with the country redeeming the ... More About: Movies , Chak De India
Indepence Eve Gift
2007-08-20 12:51:00 Just as we were leaving behind the blatant attack by MIM, the Shiv Sena has offered us another incident to stir Gandhi in his grave. They, it appears, have a good sense of humour. They chose independence day eve. It was their way of celebrating independence, I guess! Unfortunately, the front pages of newspapers are reserved only ... More About: India , Journalism , Gift , Fanatics , Epen
Remembering my dear sister Abeer Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi
2007-08-19 08:51:00 Imagine yourself a 14 year old girl. Suddenly one day few foreigners enter your house and kill your parents. These cursed souls then rape you. As a 14 year old do you understand what’s rape? The only think you would understand is that your parents were taken away from you. Few bullets ... More About: World , Sister , Remembering , Erin
Independence Day In Pictures
2007-08-16 00:42:00 It was a delight to see so many India ns (and non-Indians) capturing the spirit of the 60th Independence Day of India through their lenses. I created a group at Flickr.com to allow people to share their images clicked on this occasion. Here is a compilation of some of the selected images from the group. Clicking ... More About: Pictures , Picture of the day , Independence Day
60 Years and some Proud Moments
2007-08-15 11:34:00 As India celebrates its 60th independence day it’s time to reflect on what all we’ve achieved so far. For me these are some of the moments frozen in time, moments that made the Indian in all of us proud. I’m sure they will continue to encourage and inspire generations of Indians to come. I took only the ... More About: Politics , Years , Moments , Year , Ears
15 August ki YaadeN!
2007-08-14 21:29:00 I remember when I was a small kid and would watch the Independence Day celebrations right in front of my house. My grandfather had established a school for the poor children in my locality which ran in a two storied rented house. The preparation for the function would start a day before. The National Flag was ... More About: India , Culture , Heritage , August
Attack On Taslima: Love Of Islam Or Love Of Power?
2007-08-14 11:45:00 Dear Readers, I am pleased to annouce that Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, an important voice of reason from the India n Muslim community, has allowed us to post his writings at Indian Muslims. Dr. Engineer is an Islam ic scholar based in Mumbai and chair of Centre for Study of Society and Secularism. He writes a fortnightly column ... More About: Power , Love , Taslima Nasreen
An open letter to Mrs. Nasrin
2007-08-12 13:12:00 Dear Mrs. Nasrin, First of all let me clarify that I am not going to treat you with contempt in this mail. And neither am I going to curse/criticize you for your insightful commentaries on Islam and Muslims. To begin with, I have always wished to meet you in person to discuss your objections with you. I ... More About: Society , Open , Letter , Open Letter
Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Silence
2007-08-11 16:52:00 When I first read the news of Taslima being heckled at Hyderabad, I felt angry. Moreover, as the news was (not very unexpectedly) on the front page, I knew we are expected to deplore the incident (which many of us do); however, the news that we do hate it is not expected to reach front ... More About: Freedom , Islam , India , Fanatics , Express
Lajja: Taslima Nasreen Assaulted In Hyderabad
2007-08-09 22:26:00 Let me say this first: I never have had any genuine interaction with Hyderabad i Muslims till a month ago. I have been friends with Hindus from the city who studied at my University but never a Muslim. So the experience of living and interacting with them in the past month or so has been an ... More About: India , Salman Rushdie , Taslima Nasreen , Ajja
Ustad Vilayat Khan
2007-08-09 17:45:00 Have you ever heard of someone refusing Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan? These are the highest civilian awards in India after Bharat Ratna. Vilayat Khan , Sitar genius was one such person. He refused Padma Shri in 1964 and Padma Bhushan in 1968 because he thought the selection committee was ?musically incompetent? to judge him. In ... More About: Culture , Heritage , Ayat
Absentee parliamentarian
2007-08-06 18:56:00 A Member of Parliament is elected by popular vote of adult Indians to represent them in Lok Sabha. He or she is there to make sure that aspiration and wishes of his constituency are well represented when important issues and legislations are discussed in the legislative body. How should a constituency of more than 500,000 adult ... More About: Politics , Liam , Arli , Amen
Will Sanjay?s Case Give Hope to the Godhra Victims?
2007-08-06 10:00:00 Fourteen years later the verdict is finally out! I know it’s very hard for Sanjay Dutt to go through this all, but, the judiciary has to be fair. The other accused in the case have been convicted and there was strong evidence against Sanjay. The case was so much in the limelight that there was ... More About: Politics , Hope , Case , Give
Shall we forgive the killers?
2007-08-05 19:16:00 Judge Kode is now a household name. He rose to stardom after his verdict implicating and prosecuting the perpetrators of Bombay 1992 bomb blasts. I, as a Muslim, don’t have a soft corner for the Muslims who have been awarded sentences by the Kode. I wonder if I should have any, simply because the verdict has been ... More About: India , Killers , The Killers , Forgive , Fanatics
Denying residence to Muslims in housing societies
2007-08-05 09:58:00 Television Actor Aamir Ali has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court after he was refused a house in Lokhandwala, because of his religion. The court has asked the state government to respond in four weeks. Apart from the problem Muslims face, it is also an unhealthy trend for the nation when ... More About: Society , Housing , Societies
The Ganga and the One Lac Car
2007-08-04 18:12:00 Tata has promised us a ‘car of the people’. It is really nice to think that one can buy a car for a lac. It will be affordable to many India ns who are now unable to buy cars. It will surely add to their convenience. Except, there is one caveat. More About: Society , World , The O , The G
Urdu: a victim of politics
2007-08-03 15:32:00 In Hyderabad attending International Urdu Conference, Mr. Jaipal Reddy was quoted as saying: Urdu is the language of India and not that of the followers of a particular religion. This is the sweetest and most beautiful language of the world. Efforts to develop the Urdu language will be made under the Prime Minister’s 15-point Programme ... More About: Politics , Culture , Poli
Lal Masjid - A time for Retrospection
2007-08-02 12:38:00 I recently came across an interesting piece of article on a forum. There were two paras that particularly caught my attention, and forced me to pen down my own thoughts on the issue. Lessons of the Red Mosque Massacre: The Role of the Military Sheharyar Shaikh As the dust from the Red Mosque slowly settles on the ground ... More About: Politics , Time , Masjid , Lal Masjid
Join the struggle
2007-07-30 15:22:00 If you have not watched the movie ?Garam Hawa? I will say that you don?t read this post any further because it may spoil the movie for you. I would highly recommend this to any one to understand the situation that Muslims of India were going through post-partition. This movie is based on a short ... More About: Politics , Movies , Culture , Join
Islamic Terrorism: A Fundamental Mistake
2007-07-30 00:22:00 Guest Post by Inam Abidi The first time I heard terms like ‘islamic terrorist’ and ‘islamic terrorism’ I got both angry and sad. Angry because the media got it all so wrong and sad because of the amount of bad publicity Islam as a religion received due to it. The word ‘Islam’ means “submission or total ... More About: Terrorism , Islamic , Islamic Terrorism , Fundamental
What About The Victims Of Bombay Riots?
2007-07-28 23:31:00 Justice has a sense of irony. In one corner of the world, as Dr. Muhammad Haneef was being released from the prison with terrorism charges dropped against him, Yaqub Memon in another corner, Mumbai to be precise, was being sentenced to death for his involvement in the 1993 Bombay blasts. Within 24 hours, India ns were ... More About: Politics , Victims , Riots
Experts have a dialogue on Islam at NW/WP
2007-07-28 14:20:00 Newsweek and Washington Post hosted a dialogue at their ‘On Faith’ section over the controversial issues related with Islam and Muslims. The uniqueness of this forum is that some leading Muslim theologians and thinkers like Shaykh Goma and Tariq Ramadan as well as non-Muslims like Jimmy Carter and Tony Blair participated in this. Click here to go to the ... More About: Society , Politics , Terrorism , World
Dr. Mohammad Haneef To Be Released
2007-07-27 09:51:00 Finally some good news. The Australian authorities have dropped terror charges against an India n-born doctor over the failed car bomb attacks in the UK. Mohamed Haneef had been accused of giving “reckless support” to terrorism by providing a relative in Britain with his mobile phone SIM card. Director of Public Prosecutions Damian Bugg said, following a review of ... More About: Terrorism , Released , Mohammad , Ease
Urdu in India: opportunities and challenges
2007-07-26 17:04:00 Since Urdu was recognized as a language, people have been claiming that Urdu is dead or going to die very soon. This trend still continues even though now we have more Urdu speakers than ever before. Prophets of doom may predict the date when Urdu is supposed to be finished but all indications are that it ... More About: Society , India , Culture , Opportunities
Time For Change: Please Help Us With Your Ideas!
2007-07-26 00:32:00 From time to time we have received emails from our readers about their experience at Indian Muslims. Quite a few of them have urged us to provide more diversity in terms of topics we cover. Others deal with the aesthetic aspects of the website and suggested changes in design. A couple others suggested new ideas ... More About: Ideas , General , Change , Time , Feedback
Farewell to Chacha Kalam
2007-07-24 20:26:00 And yes this Chacha is a man of science so pure of human emotions He is, without even a shadow of doubt, the most beloved president India has ever seen. He was really the people’s president. Being a man of science, he understands the fact that if India were to become a ... More About: Farewell , Kala , Fare , Well
A Muslim?s Viewpoint
More articles from this author:2007-07-23 21:08:00 (This was written in Aug 2005 and was published on Rediff. Reposting it here as thought it relevant in the context of recent discussions) There cannot be any justification for killing innocents. As Manmohan Singh said ‘There is no cause, root or branch, that can justify the killing of innocent people’. Many of the terrorists (not ... More About: Politics , Muslim , Viewpoint 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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