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		<title>Emphasis On Composite Culture Missing in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The necessity for forcefully propagating the idea of inclusive development and composite culture through interfaith dialogue between different religious communities is increasingly felt in India. This is because those spreading canard of lies, hate and stereotypes are having a field day in the country while those preaching peaceful coexistence and unity in diversity are getting marginalized.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmative Action for Indian Muslims: If Not Quota, Then How?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoginder Sikand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the relentless waves of privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation overwhelm the Indian economy, scores of traditional caste-based occupations in which Muslim Dalits and OBCs were heavily represented, are being ruthlessly decimated, rendering millions of families destitute. In such a scenario, the need for affirmative action for Muslim Dalits and OBCs, as indeed for other such marginalised groups, becomes even more imperative. But this should not be restricted simply to jobs in a rapidly shrinking public sector.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feraque Ahmad: A devout Muslim, a progressive DM of Kishanganj</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is a simple man with a gentle smile, and donning characteristic Muslim appearance. Long white beard, a skull cap (topi) and very simple clothing is what describes much better about Feraque Ahmad, the District Magistrate of India’s Muslim dominated district Kishanganj. At the first sight hardly anyone will believe that the man can be an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer and encompasses a high (liberal) thinking.[...]
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		<title>Sachar Committee and Recommendations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Revolution Among Meo Muslims of Mewat (part 1,2&amp;3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoginder Sikand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lying to the immediate south of Delhi, straddling the rocky outcrops of the Aravalli range, is the region known as Mewat, named after the Meo Muslims, the principal community living in the area. Mewat covers large parts of the Gurgaon and Faridabad districts in Haryana and Alwar and Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Recently, a separate district was carved out of the Meo-dominated parts of Haryana and also given the name of ‘Mewat’.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Revolution Among the Muslim Meos of Mewat (part 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoginder Sikand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my last day in Mewat, I fixed an appointment to meet a Meo woman whom I had heard much about—46 year-old Mohammadi Begum. When I did fieldwork in Mewat two decades ago, she was the only Meo female to have earned a Bachelor’s degree. Today, there are some three hundred others like her—which, considering that the Meo female population is estimated at around 600,000, still does not amount to much.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Central Madrasa Board Controversy: Interview with Justice Siddiqui, Chairman of National Commission of Minority Educational Institutions</title>
		<link>http://muslimindia.in/2009/11/on-central-madrasa-board-controversy-interview-with-justice-siddiqui-chairman-of-national-commission-of-minority-educational-institutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoginder Sikand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice M.S.A. Siddiqui is the Chairman of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand he discusses his proposal, sent to the Government of India for its consideration, for the setting up of a national-level Central Madrasa Board and the vociferous opposition that the proposal has met with from some Muslim quarters.
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		<title>India&#8217;s Invisible Minority</title>
		<link>http://muslimindia.in/2009/10/indias-invisible-minority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year due to a coincidence of the lunar calendar, Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja, two major religious festivals of India, were celebrated within a week of each other in late September. After twenty-two years, I was able to witness both in my birth city of Kolkata (Calcutta, India). One common thread between the Pujas and Eids is the propensity amongst the faithful to shop for new clothes and gifts with the same fervor and joy as Christmas shoppers in my adopted homeland of United States. ]]></description>
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		<title>Call to the Community to Oppose “Central Madrasa Board” and Save Madrasas</title>
		<link>http://muslimindia.in/2009/10/call-to-the-community-to-oppose-%e2%80%9ccentral-madrasa-board%e2%80%9d-and-save-madrasas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Madrasa as an institution has always been an eye-sore for the Sangh Parivar. They see it as the defence line for Muslim identity and an obstacle to eventual assimilation of Muslims in the Hindu fold. Under the NDA government the madrasas particularly in border areas were looked upon as cradle for terrorists and shelter for militants. As a result many madrasas including Nadwatul Ulama were subjected to search. ]]></description>
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		<title>Some Common Mistakes in Ramadan: Taking Ramadan as a ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us Ramadaan has lost its spirituality and has become more of a ritual than a form of Ibaadah. We fast from morning to night like a zombie just because everyone around us is fasting too. We forget that its a time to purify our hearts and our souls from all evil....we forget to make dua, forget to beseech Allaah to forgive us and ask Him to save us from the Fire. Sure we stay away from food and drink but that's about all.]]></description>
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