The black dots are unfolding one by one in Gujarat. Sabarmati train burning, then riots, murders, looting, killing, burning are big dots on the “Gujarat-ni Asmita”. Bakery burning, Bilkis Banu gangrape, mass murders and other heinous deeds are “Gujarat-ni Upkirti” instead of “Gujarat-ni Asmita”. And now it is recent Patan-gang-rape. All these crimes and sins are the rarest of the rare, and therefore the perpetrators must be severely punished, whatsoever t...

The Supreme Court order for fresh probe into some Gujarat riot cases has come as a sign of relief in the dark times of the Gujarat riots history. Gujarat, which is famous for the flip flop case of Zahira Sheikh, the judiciary quietly watching and ignoring all the witnesses turning hostile, but preferring to accept the version of the state despite all the holes in its argument. It was the transfer of the case to Maharashtra that brought forward the truth. The same was repeated in c...

In his article “The Caliphs Gave News Service and Postal System to the World” (Radiance Viewsweekly,6-12 April 2008), Mr. Mohammad Yacoob has presented a long list of past Muslim scientists in various fields and an idea of their discoveries. To add, Muslims have every right to be proud of their past glory for two more reasons. They neither discovered any dangerous weapons of mass destruction nor did they help the profit-oriented capitalists with the inventions to maximi...

Mere giving reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in prestigious institutions like IITs and IIMs does not serve the purpose of social justice. Reservation on the basis of caste divides the society. The policy of reservation has failed in its main purpose of achieving social justice, as even after five decades the list of OBCs is growing. Now, economically forward classes (creamy layer) belonging to the OBC, SC, ST categories are also enjoying the facility and on the other ha...