Issues
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Why the West craves materialism & why the East sticks to religion
May 12, 2012
+ Pic By Imran Khan My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been slaves and had a huge inferiority complex of the British. The school I went to was similar to all elite schools...
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Need for radical electoral reforms
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
May 10, 2012
The concern over reducing Muslim representation in our parliament and assemblies is not without any reasons for they do not even have reserved constituencies though the Dalits and Aadivasis in particular feel that reserved constituencies have not ...
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Muslim leaders should learn from Sikh leaders
Apr 28, 2012
By Kaleem Kawaja Rajoana is a Sikh terrorist in Punjab who has been convicted by several high courts and Supreme Court for assassinating Beant Singh, the then chief minister of Punjab in 1995. After his mercy petition was rejected by the Pr...
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Is Indian Judiciary above reproach?
By Sumit S Paul
Apr 28, 2012
Is Indian judiciary above reproach? Narendra Modi getting clean chit in Gulbarg Society massacre, that witnessed 63 Muslims getting burnt and butchered, is a clear indication that the entire government machinery is anti-Muslim. Though it’...
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Indian society at crossroads
Apr 28, 2012
Only 3% of India's 1 billion population, India's Brahmin, who claim Aryan descent, have switched from their Vedic culture to not only ban consumption of Beef for their community, but through socio-religious propaganda has forced all oth...
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Rushdie Affairs and the Demonization of Islam
Apr 28, 2012
By P.A.Mohamed Ameen There is a long history of messiahs like Rushdie who preach gospels of free speech and utopian harmony but who succeed in producing disharmony in search of material greed, name and fame. Rushdie, the champion of free sp...
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Secularism in India is an illusion
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pic By Mukul Sinha This is an edited text of the First Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture, held on 11 February 2012 at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai, organized by Friends, Comrades and Students of Advocate Shahid Azmi, the 32-y...
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Chargesheet filed by CBI in Gopalgarh firing case
Mar 27, 2012
CBI has filed chargesheets against 15 people from the Meo Muslim and Gujjar communities for violence that killed 10 people in Gopalgarh on 14 September last year. Ten persons belonging to the Meo Muslim community were killed in clashes and poli...
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Homosexuality not alien to Hindu ethos
Mar 27, 2012
By Dr Sumit S Paul In the wake of government legalising homosexuality and lesbianism, it must be noted that prior to 1860, when the Indian Penal Code was imposed by the British, the Hindu India was very ‘liberal’ towards homosex...
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Why the custom of dowry is increasing in our society?
Mar 27, 2012
By Arif Aziz The world has stepped today into the twenty-first century and people are living in the electronic and computer age. Man has made extraordinary progress because of his vast knowledge but our Indian society remains a victim of ma...
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Until Muslims forgive him, Modi has no hope outside Gujarat
Mar 27, 2012
+ Pic By Kaleem Kawaja kaleemkawaja@gmail.com In the ten long and miserable years since the horrible 2002 genocide of Muslims in Gujarat, Modi’s vast machinery, the vast wealth and cunning of BJP and Modi’s Gujarati ...
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Bengal inching towards social, political & financial bankruptcy
Mar 13, 2012
By Aziz A. Mubaraki The West Bengal government has a lot to answer for in the Park Street rape case which was earlier ridiculed by it, but the CCTV footage from the hotel provided vital clues about the attack and showed the victim was indee...
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Give Muslims the benefit of doubt, Mr. Swamy
Mar 13, 2012
By Mohammed Ayub Khan muslimindia2020@yahoo.ca- More than seven months after Subramanian Swamy wrote his controversial piece on Muslims, the embers of his rhetoric continue to be kept aflame. Defending her husband’s stance, Roxna Sw...
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Iran-Israel Conflict and India
By Anis Ahmad
Mar 09, 2012
The scenario that has emerged after the New Delhi attack brings us to an important question: what will be the Indian government’s posture in the middle of this blame game involving not only Iran and Israel but also the Western powers who have almo...
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India and US have conflicting world-views
Mar 02, 2012
One cannot ignore the difference of world view between an American Zionist warmonger like Kissinger and a traditionally pacifist India’s then foreign minister Jaswant Singh. Jaswant Singh rightly avoided reply, out of politeness. Why ...
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Congress’ double-faced policy
Mar 02, 2012
The response on the controversy surrounding Salman Khurshid’s statement at Farrukhabad about reservation was enormous with every political party vying for his head. But the question remains intact: has Mr. Khurshid done any wrong in quoti...
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India and Israel: strange bedfellows
Mar 02, 2012
By Ali Khan Mahmudabad bilehra14@gmail.com For the time being no one knows who carried out the attack on an Israeli embassy car in New Delhi. However, what is clear is that the perpetrators have consciously or unconsciously created a situ...
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Hijab: An Open Letter to the World
Feb 14, 2012
Dear masses of the human race, With due respect, I request you to hear me out and to read this letter with an open, unprejudiced mind. Catholic nuns wear veil as a symbol of holiness. Sikhs wear a peculiar turban. Kippah is the skull-ca...
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AMU is again becoming the leader of Muslim education
By Kaleem Kawaja
Feb 14, 2012
In the modern history of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent after the end in 1857 of over six centuries-long Muslim rule, their emancipation by acquiring modern education starting in late 1800s represents a very courageous turning point. Th...
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BJP: Hypocrisy on Political Chessboard
By Ram Puniyani
Jan 27, 2012
This hypocritical, forked tongue attitude of BJP is part of its character. As such BJP is supposed to work in the electoral arena on behalf of RSS. It has to come to power by all means, fair and foul, to pave the path for RSS agenda of Hindu natio...
