Opinions

  • Can US Motivate Modi Administration to Restore Equitable Polity in India?

    By Kaleem Kawaja
    Sep 27, 2014

    The visit of a Prime Minister of India to the United States on the invitation of the US President is a significant event for the people of India.  It raises hopes that with help from US things will change for the better for the billion plu...

  • One Hundred Days of Modi Sarkar

    By Kaleem Kawaja
    Sep 10, 2014

    In the camapign for the recent elections in India, Mr Modi and his BJP followers barnstormed the nation for many months finding fault with almost every government in the last 67 years, and proclaimed that if elected they will hit the ...

  • Choose Godhra, Pandya or Akshardham

    By Sumit Paul
    May 26, 2014

    Gujarat Police gave him the ‘choice’ of being implicated in the Godhra train burning, Haren Pandya murder or Akshardham terror, one of the men acquitted by the Supreme Court in the temple attack case alleged on May 20). Mohammad Sal...

  • Let us take charge of our Ummah

    By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
    May 16, 2014

    Duly supported with authentic data, the Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee gauged in 2006 the Muslim deficit in India vis-a-vis any other community or social group. This Committee and the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission (2008) recommended a ...

  • New Chapters of Communalism in BJP’s Grand Plan

    By Dr. Javed Jamil
    May 01, 2014

    If Muslims are to be kept in check, they need to be hit hard on the economic front. The thinking is perhaps that Hindus (and more specifically certain sections of Hindus) cannot monopolise the resources of the country unless Muslims (and the rest ...

  • Wither Our Indian Muslim Leadership?

    Apr 30, 2014

    Why were Muslims directed in Bijnor to vote enbloc for a candidate, who had at least eleven cases, pending against him in court — including cases of murder, rape and of involvement in riots.

  • Misleading Appeals — General Election 2014

    Apr 16, 2014

    Some Muslim-looking 'leaders' have appealed, particularly to the Muslims, to come out of the vote bank era and to vote for Modi. Such misleading appeals will hardly affect a single secular-justice-loving voter.

  • Ministers Spend Most of 'their' Money Here During Elections!

    Apr 15, 2014

    While a party may whine about lack of funds to build damaged roads or implement an approved scheme, it won’t shy away from being a money-spinner during these election campaigns.

  • Why I want to watch 'Shahid'?

    By Sumit Paul
    Oct 21, 2013

    What I've gathered from my dispassionate friends, who've watched the movie, is that one ebullient lawyer Shahid Azmi (it's a true story) fights tooth and nail for Muslim youngsters, branded as terrorists, and gets them acquitted in many cases. He ...

  • Murderous Egyptian Bonapartes Pampered by Hypocrite Mentors

    By Karamatullah K. Ghori
    Aug 27, 2013

    It would be massacre and a bloodbath by any name, in any lexicon. Egypt’s besotted, power-drunk and murderous generals are on a relentless rampage. But the outside world is witnessing the orgy of bloodletting like mute spectators. Not onl...

  • Eid Mubarak

    Aug 09, 2013

    Finally, our actions must make // Our wishes horses, so we ride // To embrace every one’s human need; // Let that be the gift of this year’s Eid.

  • Yet Another Scam

    May 18, 2013

    By Yogesh Atal It did not surprise me a bit to know from the media about the bribe offered by a senior railway employee to earn a high position in the Railway Board. To be sure, this cannot be the first instance of its kind; and I fail to ...

  • Who sabotaged Shamshad Begum’s career?

    By Sumit Paul
    May 18, 2013

    The death of Shamshad Begum saddened those who can relate to film music’s golden era. Her death also makes one wonder as to how far she could have gone had she enjoyed a smooth career sans the overwhelming interference of Mangeshkar siste...

  • Kill merchants of Sex before killing the rapists

    May 11, 2013

    By Javed Jamil   In the wake of the Delhi gang rape case, I had written several articles stressing the need for uprooting the real cause of the rise in all sex-related threats including dangers to health and security of human beings. B...

  • No Muslim Lyricists Worth Mentioning?

    By Sumit Paul
    May 11, 2013

    How can one be so biased and anti-Muslim? Even those who condemn Muslims will have to hail the contributions of Muslim lyricists.

  • Execution of Kasab: Expression of our frivolity

    By Sumit Paul
    Nov 22, 2012

    Why can't we be more humane? The way people are rejoicing and expressing their joy, one wonders as to whether we're really civilised?

  • Some Thoughts on the Syed Kazmi Case

    Oct 20, 2012

    Any Indian can be a victim of the high-handedness of the 'forces of law and order': but it has become clear, from the fact that people from minority groups such as Muslims and tribals are singled out and form the overwhelming bulk of those detaine...

  • Muslims & Rumours on Social Media

    Oct 03, 2012

    At a time when our credibility and integrity are under attack from left, right and centre, we need to exercise greater caution. You can see people questioning our intelligence, mocking at us for being fooled by handful of fake images that are bein...

  • Let's say Assalamu Alaikum, Muslim India!

    By Syed Mohammad Raghib
    Sep 29, 2012

    In one word, the object [of Muslim India] was to compile a record for the next generation of the events and happenings of the last quarter of the 20th century.

  • Why the West hates Muhammad?

    Sep 27, 2012

    The problem is not just the film. The problem is the hypocrisy and dual standards of the western world, especially America. They want others to observe limits but they themselves reserve the right to cross all limits.