Last year saw a surge in LoC fireworks amid LAC standoff, keeping life on the cutting edge on tenterhooks. Before snow transiently silenced guns at the Line of Control (LoC), the belligerent nuke-loaded neighbours were at it again โ shelling over the bodies of Kashmiris. Last summer, the frontier fireworks were full of spark and…
Sri Aurobindo, in his seminal essay The Future of Poetry, observes that “Truth of poetry is not truth of philosophy or truth of science or truth of religion only because it is another way of self-expression of infinite Truth so distinct that it appears to give quite another face of things and reveal quite another…
Jerusalem or al-Quds is one of the three holiest sites in Islam, the reference of which has been found both in ambiguous and in unambiguous terms; both in The Holy Quran and in the Hadith literature. The city has been in the centre of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I would attempt to see the โHoly…
With uncertainty all around us, the entire world has come to a standstill. Countries across the globe, barring a few, are either under a complete or a partial lockdown. From trade and commerce to politics and education, and even to the closure of places of worship, every aspect of human life has been affected. With…
One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the worldโฆ And when you feel that you are dying of loneliness, despair, or love, all that you have not experienced joins in this endlessly sorrowful procession. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย …
Introduction It is a common argument, made both implicitly and explicitly in Islamophobic rhetoric, that Islam, on the whole, is antithetical to modern secular notions of human rights. Whether it is through the lens of the rights of women in Islam and the oppression of women in the Muslim world, or through cited components of the shariโa regarding…