“The government on one hand is claiming to have taken measures to eradicate drug menace from the society, but at the same time, permission is being granted for opening up of wine shops, which is putting a question mark over the claims.” SRINAGAR โ Mutahida Majlis e Ulema (MMU), an umbrella of several religious organizations…
โI am a citizen of the world.โโย Sylvia Beach In a recent interview, I had put down โidentityโ as an intrinsic part of me, an identity that is devoid of law and religion or other statuses that have the power to affect my identity. I was asked to explain how my identity is bound to law;…
Very few books can be emotionally as promising as โThe Road to Meccaโ. Written by a famous and yet obscure author, Muhammad Asad (earlier Leopold Weiss). The book is a memoir, chiefly of his days in Arabiya. Born in Austria to Jewish parents, Asad was introduced in the study of the Torah apart from secular…
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…
Earlier in the year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, plead to the global world to abide by the value of unity and brotherhood, by invoking the significance of VasudevKutambakam in his address. VasudevKutumbakam is the philosophy of the entire world being anintegrated, cohesive family, and people from…
WHILE PROTEST REVERBERATESย on the streets of Chile, Catalonia, Britain, France, Iraq, Lebanon and Hong Kong, and a new generation rages against what has been done to their planet, I hope you will forgive me for speaking about a place where the street has been taken over by something quite different. There was a time when…
A Burdened Soul This isnโt a story I am proud of, and itโs not one I ever planned on writing. Itโs not even one I planned on living. When I was younger, I imagined that leaving Islam was a logical process, one arrived at through careful analysis of Islamic beliefs and finding in them something…
Throughout history, there are numerous examples of how the divide-and-conquer tactic has been used as a precursor to total destruction. We know that much of the science of anthropology was born in genocide โ to meet the need of their empires to understand a people, and ultimately to destroy them. I think this is perhaps…