Books

• Democracy in India - i

  May 18, 2013

  Book: Democracy in India - A Hollow Shell Authors: Arthur Bonner, Kancha Ilaiah, Suranjot Kumar Saha, Asghar Ali Engineer & Gerard Heuze Year: 1994 Pages: 282 ISBN:1879383258 Publisher: The American University Press Kavneet...

• A Stalwart of Our Times

  May 18, 2013

  Book: Syed Shahabuddin - Outstanding Voice of Muslim India Compiler: Mushtqque Madni Publisher: PA Inamdar, Pune Year: 2013 Pages: 112+8 pages of photographs Price: Rs 400 (Available from Pharos Media, see page 19) Let me begin t...

• US & South Asia

  May 17, 2013

  Book: U.S Policy Towards South Asia: Focus On Sixty Years Editor: M. Saleem Kidwai Publisher: Academic Excellence, New Delhi Year: 2008. Price: Rs 750. Pages: 285 U.S has taken over as the global hegemon since the demise of the USSR,...

• Un-equal security: minorities in India’s security sector

  May 17, 2013

  Book: Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India - Armed Forces, Police and Paramilitary During Communal Riots (2nd ed) Author: Omar Khalidi Price: Rs 300/US$12 Publisher: Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon - info@threeessays.com Trilok Si...

• The lost art of reading

  May 15, 2013

  Why would a life-time lover of books suddenly discover that he’s having trouble sitting down to read? “It isn’t a failure of desire so much as one of will,” writes David Ulin, book editor of the Los Angeles Times. &ldquo...

• The Ordeal of a Kashmiri journalist

  May 15, 2013

  Book: Shabistaan-e  Wajood Author: Maqbool Sahil Publisher: Meezan Publishers, Srinagar J&K Year: 2009 Price: Rs 350 Pages: 355   Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Jail is altogether a different world w...

• How Babri was occupied in 1949

  May 13, 2013

  Book: Ayodhya: The Dark Night (The Secret History of Rama’s Appearance in Babri Masjid) Publisher: HarperCollins (2012) Author: Krishna Jha, Dhirendra K. Jha Pages: 192. Price: Rs 499 Aga Syed Sameer This is one of ...

• Jewish Terrorism in Israel

  May 13, 2013

  Book: Jewish Terrorism in Israel Authors: Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger Publishers: Columbia University Press Year: 2009 Pages: 243 pages/p/b ISBN: 978-0-231-15447-5 Parice: US$14.75 Michael Rubner Professor emeritus, Jame...

• Manufacturing “Terrorists”: (T)errors of “War on Terror”

  May 06, 2013

  By Mahtab Alam In 1958, while passing a judgment in the case of Sherman v. United States, the US Supreme Court famously said, “the function of law enforcement is the prevention of crime and the apprehension of criminals. Manifestly, ...

• Books: Outstanding Voice of Muslim India; Muslims Most Civilised; Nuclear India...

  May 01, 2013

  Compilation of articles by eminent personalities on Syed Shahabuddin; Dr Jamil’s work is a wonderful study that will puncture the Western claims of civilization; Nuclear India—Illusion and Reality; My Reflections [Poetry in Urdu along with English...

• Ilaiah’s Tilak is communal to the core

  Apr 27, 2013

  Book: Untouchable God Author: Kancha Ilaiah Publishers: Samya Pages: 248 Price: Rs 350   Kancha Ilaiah is not an easy scholar to digest, with his brutal polemic against the Brahminical dominance of the Indian caste order. His...

• The Truth of Communal Violence

  Apr 27, 2013

  Book Reviewed: Sampradayik Dangon ka Sach Written and Compiled by L.S. Hardenia Publisher: Bhartiya Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Delhi, bgvsdelhi@gmail.com Year: 2012 Pages: 200 Price: Rs 200 Ram Puniyani Communal violence has...

• Islami Ulum ka irtiqa ‘Ahd-i Sultanate ke Hindustan mein

  Apr 15, 2013

  Aligarh: A new Urdu book by Prof. Zafarul Islam Islahi, “Islami Ulum ka Irtiqa-Ahd-i- Sultanate  ke Hindustan mein,” was released by Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Director of Jamia Millia Islamia’s Institute of Islamic Studies in...

• Islamic Jurisprudence made easy

  By AG Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Book: Usul al Fiqh: Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence Author: Syed Iqbal Zaheer Publisher: East West Education Tools, Bangalore Year: 2012 Pages: 109 Price: Not mentioned ISBN: 978-81-9153-0-4     ...

• Muslims most civilised but...

  Mar 26, 2013

  Book: Muslims Most Civilised, Yet Not Enough Author: Dr Javed Jamil Year: 2013 Pages 364 Mission Publications Price: Rs 800 ISBN: 81-88268-09-7   Syed Adil This is now increasingly clear that the so-cal...

• Eighteen fifty-seven

  Mar 12, 2013

  Book: Eighteen fifty-seven [English] Author: Surendra Nath Sen Publisher: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India Year: 1957 Reprited: 1995 Pages: 470 Price: Rs 200   ...

• Muslim voices against terrorism

  Feb 28, 2013

  Book: Voices Against Terror: Indian Ulema on Islam, Jihad and Communal Harmony Edited and Translated by Yoginder Sikand Publisher: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, Mumbai (vak@bom3.vsnl.net.in) Pages: 207; Year: 2010 Price: Rs. 100 Islam, li...

• A laudable addition to Rumiana

  Feb 28, 2013

  Book: Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi Author: B. Sheik Ali Publisher: Knowledge Society Publications, Mysore, India Year of Publication: 2009 Price: Rs 200 Pages: 158 Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi is a...

• Democracy and violence in India

  Feb 19, 2013

  Book: The Clash Within; Democracy, Religious Violence and India's Future Author: Martha C Nussbaum Publisher: Permanent Black, India Price: Rs 595 Pages: 403 Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander The word "clash&quo...

• "Sachar Ki Sifarishein"

  Feb 14, 2013

  This is a book written in simple Hindi is riveting account of the present socio-economic and education condition of Indian Muslims. Civil engineer from IIT-Kanpur and a 1997-batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre, currently serving in Pune Abdu...