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Picture of the day:Lies do kill
2007-07-22 19:35:00 But millions have died after Bush lied. More About: General , Picture , Picture of the day , Kill , Lies
Not Such A Quick Note On Terrorism
2007-07-20 23:59:00 Dear Confused, I am regular reader of your blogs and your recent post has really got me thinking. I think there are certain issues that need to be addressed. Also, through this post, I would try to answer some other questions that have come up in discussions at this blog. Terrorism is terrorism and it doesn’t really ... More About: Islam , India , Iraq , World
Shame on Asian Age
2007-07-20 15:57:00 In a media mad rush to find the dirt of Dr. Haneef and India n Muslim-Al Qaida connection, Asian Age reported on 4th of July that Dr. Haneef was believed to be an activist in SIMI citing unnamed ?intelligence sources in Bangalore.? Had Asian Age been little careful about what they were reporting, Dr. Haneef will not ... More About: Terrorism , Journalism , Sham
Hum Hindustani
2007-07-18 23:02:00 History of Muslims in India does not start with Mughal history and it did not end with Mughal dynasty either. We were before them and we have outlived all Muslim rulers and dynasties. The reasons is simple Muslims are part of India for thousand of years and will continue to be part of India. Hindus and ... More About: Society , Culture , Heritage , General
Muslims in Denial of Collective Responsibility?
2007-07-18 12:31:00 After reading Hasan Suroor in The Hindu dated Jul17, I remembered a laconic fable I read as a kid. A wolf and a kid are drinking water from the same stream. The wolf upstream, the kid downstream. The wolf wants to savour the kid. So, he goes- “Hey, why are you making my water dirty?” “How ... More About: Terrorism , Muslims , Collective , Coll , Denial
Kashmiri Police and Muslims
2007-07-18 03:41:00 So Kashmir gets a new Poli ce Chief, what so special about this news? Well just look dig deeper and you will see that the only Muslim majority state of India that have been ruled by King, Prime Minsters, Chief Ministers, Governors and Military rule in its 60 year history do not have a administration that ... More About: Society , Muslims
In support of Dr. Haneef
2007-07-17 21:29:00 Dr. Mohammad Haneef is innocent. Not enough evidence is out there to suggest he was in anyway involved with people who were arrested in UK for failed terrorist plan. But in the new jungle law of post-9/11 world, you are guilty until proven innocent. Case of Dr. Haneef is most extreme. Even Australian Court ... More About: Terrorism , India , Support
We Shall not Balk: The Indo-Iranian Pipeline Project
2007-07-17 17:12:00 The Indo -Iranian gas pipeline project is an ambitious one. We will immensely benefit if we can get some natural gas from Iran. More About: Politics , India , Project
A signboard that needs police protection
2007-07-16 18:47:00 The photograph on the left shows a policeman deployed to protect the signboard bearing the name of legendary Sarod maestro late Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan (father of Amjad Ali Khan) at Hanuman Chowk in Gwalior. For years the road sign was vandalized again and again until the administration was forced to deploy police this month ... More About: Culture , Heritage , Police , Poli , Prot
Understand Islam and Muslims-2
2007-07-15 15:38:00 My previous article (Under stand ing Islam and Muslims ) on this topic talked about why there shouldn’t be any effort to undermine or completely abandon the Qura’n. The West seems to be obsessed with so called ’secular’ Muslims because they target the basics of authenticity of Quran. They want to bring their own version ... More About: Fanatics
Welcome move from the Sikh religious group
2007-07-14 17:50:00 A group of Sikh leaders called for a July 28 meeting of representatives from New Delhi’s more than 400 Sikh gurdwaras, or temples, to discuss ways to rein in over-the-top weddings, the Times of India reported. “The committee feels that ostentatious weddings are leading to increasing competition among families to outdo each other,” ... More About: General , Move , Group , Religious
Video Watch: Hindu Prayer Disrupted In US Senate
2007-07-13 20:25:00 Intolerance is a personal failure not that of a religion. A Hindu clergyman made history yesterday by offering the Senate ’s morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three protesters from the visitors’ gallery. Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nev., gave the prayer that opens each day’s Senate session. As ... More About: Video , Watch , Prayer
Four Villages Attacked in a Terror Attack, Two Killed
2007-07-12 12:08:00 In a hideous and uncivilized attack on civilians, four villages in India were attacked and two civilians were killed and many were injured. More About: Terrorism , Terror , Fanatics , Kill
?The Indian Terrorist? or ?Trial by Media?
2007-07-10 21:06:00 The events at Glasgow and London was undoubtably horrific. People are dying in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur and Sudan at a daily basis. That is even more horrific. It is understandable that in UK Glasgow event was headline. It is not clear to me why a failed terrorist attempt in the UK, in which nobody is hurt, should make ... More About: Politics , Terrorism , Islam , Media , Culture
Understand Islam and Muslims
2007-07-07 19:16:00 It’s so easy to hate Muslims these days. Similar sounding names keep coming after every bomb blasts and every day the bitterness against Islam keeps growing. IM blog had argued before why Indian Muslims are in general away from the winds of extremism but the recent involvement of Kafeel Ahmed and Haneef ... More About: Fanatics , Understand , Under
Terror Investigations in India
2007-07-07 14:20:00 Shekhar Gupta, the noted editor of The India n Express, writes in his ‘National Interest’ column Victims of Errorism, ‘Terror attacks in Malegaon, Jama Masjid in Delhi, Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Ayodhya, Samjhauta Express, Sankat Mochan Mandir in Varanasi, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Sarojini Nagar in New Delhi have all gone fully unresolved. And ... More About: Politics , Investigations , Tiga
Video Watch: Gandhigiri In Bangalore
2007-07-06 11:36:00 Yes, it still works. Benazeer, president, Raza Educational and Social Trust, runs a school for around 500 poor children of the locality. To expand the school, she had bought a building, which was being used as a godown by a furniture company. But the company refused to move out. “They just didn’t understand that this is my ... More About: Video , Society , India , Watch , Bangalore
Al Jazeera?s Pains
2007-07-05 20:45:00 Indian government, for some strange reasons, has stopped Al Jazeera English from downlinking into India. They don’t want to call it a ban, but that is exactly what it is. The official reason cited for the ban is that “Al Jazeera is a threat to national security!” hey! what? tell me again? “Al Jazeera is a threat to ... More About: India , Journalism , Al-Jazeera
Lal Masjid ke Burqa waale Imaam
2007-07-05 15:25:00 It finally came to this Abdul Aziz Ghazi, the leader of the mosque, also known as Lal Masjid , was arrested by security forces on Wednesday night after trying to escape the compound in a full-length burqa. In an interview broadcast on state television on Thursday, he said about 850 students remained inside, including 600 women ... More About: Pakistan , Fanatics , Lal Masjid
In the land of Hindutva
2007-07-04 04:54:00 Only thing Hindutva shares with Hinduism is a part of the name. Other than that Hindutva as an ideology is a fascist idea implanted in India. According to Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton: “Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and ... More About: Land
One judgement five reports
2007-07-03 17:51:00 Recently some were found guilty of bombing RSS’s Chennai Offices. Let’s see how they got reported by different news organizations. Rediff: RSS blast: Al Umma founder freed, 11 guilty Three fundamentalists were on Thursday awarded life terms by a designated TADA court for their role in the August 1993 bomb blast at the RSS headquarters in Chennai, ... More About: Five , Ports , Judgement
Picture of the day:Say no to drinking papa!
2007-07-01 15:19:00 Muslim girl students take part in a demonstration in Patna to demand ban on the sale of liquor.[TOI] More About: Picture , Picture of the day , Drinking , Papa , The D
Are our Highways safe?
2007-06-30 16:08:00 The recent tragic death of Sahib Singh Verma brings one very important question which has been ignored so far. Former Delhi chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president Sahib Singh Verma, 63, was killed in an accident on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in Rajasthan. Verma’s driver and security guard were also killed ... More About: India , General , Safe , Highway
Let Sania play in peace
2007-06-29 17:17:00 The standards of journalism continue to get lower. They will report news where there is no news and create news when they need to do. Latest being the case of Sania Mirza parterning with Shahar Peer. I got this interview last night to see if there is news here and saw not much news value ... More About: Peace , Play
Madam President
2007-06-28 17:16:00 Pratibha Patil has made a slippery start to her presidential career. No one expects magic from her, well to be frank she appears to be another puppet Sonia Gandhi seems to have gotten under her supervision. Sonia Gandhi obviously wanted a person like her who can be wooed when it comes to ... More About: Politics , Women , President , Madam , Resident
Muslims against terrorism
2007-06-28 05:03:00 A picture, a link and some quotes Seeds of extremism is in communal riots: Sayeed Khan TCN: What was your focus when you established MY India ? social work or an educational endeavor or politics? Sayeed: MY India aims at encouraging Muslim youth to get a good education in different fields. Our focus is socio-political, ... More About: Politics , Terrorism , Muslims , Slim
Khushwant Singh on Babri Masjid
2007-06-27 22:53:00 The bitterness created between communities by vandals who took part in knocking down the mosque still lingers becaue perpetrators of the crime remain unpunished.They strut about like peacocks, proud of what they did, and make no secret of their plans to return to power. Most of them belong to the Sangh Parivar: L. K. Advani, ... More About: Politics , Masjid , Hush , Singh
Bhagalpur Riots: 14 Accused Convicted After 18 Years
2007-06-23 04:19:00 It’s official now. It takes approximately 20 years to make some sort of legal headway against perpetrators of riots in India . The victims of anti-Sikh riots of Delhi waited for 20 years when the Nanavati Commission submitted its report in February 2004 and claimed evidence against congressmen Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H.K.L. Bhagat for ... More About: Politics , Bihar , Years , Year
Save your belongings with a 100 thousand lock
2007-06-22 13:54:00 This is post is meant to advertise a new lock which is unique. It doesn’t have the latest technologies like bio-medical techniques like finger print reader or a face recognition (this technology can also recognize faces other than Saif’s) and nor it is made of titanium/gold/diamonds. It is a simple lock with something so unique ... More About: Humor , Satire , Save , Thousand , Lock
Pratibha Patil, Purdah And Prejudice
More articles from this author:2007-06-21 11:15:00 To start with, credit where it is due. The picture of a veiled woman I posted a few days back was taken by Mirjam, a fine photographer from Netherlands who visits India regularly and has a great photo-gallery at Flickr. While scouting for pictures that could be used as header images for this blog, I ... More About: Society , Hijab , Pratibha Patil , Dice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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