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Muslims have always resisted the tag of fanaticism against their religion by citing the famed Najran narrative. We say that the Prophet received the delegation from Najran, had discussion with them, and thereafter granted them space in his mosque to pray. That the Prophet allowed the delegation to pray in the mosque is not borne out by hadith literature. All we read from ahadith – sayings of the Prophet - is the introduction of Islam... Mustafa Kemal Pasha, known as the father of Turkey (Ataturk), (1881-1938) is advertised by the west-aping Muslim intellectuals the world over as their role-model. The demolition of Caliphate and Shareeat, The change of language for azan (from Arabic to Turkish), replacement of Tarboosh (The Turkish felt cap) with the standard European hat, measures for women’s ‘liberation’, including the proscription of purdah- radical ‘reforms’ he engineered... In the formative years of my life, magazines kept me posted on the developments in the world. They were the only resources to go beyond the obvious to the deeper significations of events. When I read, it seemed to me that magazines observed from the sidelines and presented various shades of opinions. And that was much before the studios of TV channels took a cue from Tim Sebastian and came up with the desi versions of BBC’s Hard Talk. Now we have live... |
BLOGEMICS
With the last embers of Summer vacation slowly dying out, our young ones are bracing themselves for schools and colleges to reopen. Some of...  |
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COUNSELLING
05-03-2013
She sat in front of me; the dejection in her eyes mixed with something else – confusion, bewilderment. She still didn’t know where she went wrong, how she went wrong. She tried to do everything right, the way he... BOOK REVIEW
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WOMAN
28-05-2013
"I say that religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness." When one...  |
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