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Murder Of Shahid Azmi, Assault On The Heart Of The Indian Democracy (Comments Off)

February 16, 2010 • Category: Carousel, Featured, India, News, Politics

Thirty-two years old, Shahid Azmi, the defense counsel to the accused, framed by the police in the Malgaon case in Maharashtra, was gunned down in his office by a five member assassination squad in broad daylight. In his very young career he became the voice of the downtrodden and defenseless, because he had suffered the heavy hand of the corrupt state police as a young boy of fifteen.[...]

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The mirage of Muslim reservation (Comments Off)

Exactly 12 days after India achieved independence, the Scheduled Castes and the Muslims were given political reservation. Following a debate on ‘Report on Minority Rights’, they were classified as ‘minorities’ and the Constituent Assembly passed a bill giving them reservation proportionate to their population. The next day, some members intelligently brought an amendment to the bill stating that the SCs were part of the Hindu community. [...]

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A Hope For The Year 2010 (1)

The year 2010 completes the first decade of the 21st Century. For the last nine years we have been in the new century, but the hoped for new millennium eludes us. The mind set of hubris still plagues. We hope that we are seeing the last dying flare-up of ethnic and religious wars from the overhang of the 20th Century.[...]

Islam»

Prophet Muhammad’s promise to Christians (Comments Off)

Muslims and Christians together constitute over fifty percent of the world and if they lived in peace, we will be half way to world peace. One small step that we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization.[...]

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Myths about Urdu (Comments Off)

‘Modern Hindi was created by weeding out Persian and Arabic words and using only the Devanagari script for writing. These new languages, Sanskritised Hindi and Persianised Urdu, drifted apart from each other and still serve as identity markers for Hindu and Muslim nationalism in South Asia.’[...]

Opinion»

Behind the glitz (Comments Off)

Building towers is risky business. In fact, the very dynamics of the architecture of towers and their historical symbolism suggest acts of defiance. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the world’s tallest building, takes the act of rebellion against physical limitations to new levels — literally. [...]

Politics»

No financial crisis impact? India’s poor grew by 34 mn (Comments Off)

It’s a myth that the global financial crisis left India virtually unscathed. In fact, India is the biggest victim of financial crisis-induced poverty, according to data obtained by TOI from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ (UNDESA). Check out these figures.[...]

Society»

Sachar Committee and Recommendations (Comments Off)

Sachar Committee has recommended that in the field of education, many more IIT and Polytechnic colleges should be established in the areas where the Muslim population is high. As most o the Muslims depend on self-employment and daily labour wages for their livelihood, Sachar Committee has recommended implementation of second labour commission recommendations which will be more useful for Muslims. [...]

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