It is recurrently argued that Muslim countries are not democratic. This is based on the assumption that only the Western style democracies are the best form of government. The truth is that the Western style democracies are nothing but an instrument in the hands of the big business powers to perpetuate their hold, through good as well as bad means. And when we look at the statistics, what comes out is that there are only about one fifth of the total number of countries that are democratic. ...

Recently two incidents involving media persons have taken place. In both the cases, concerned media persons were harassed. Unfortunately the national media chose to black them out. In one incident, a documentary film maker Mr. Shubhradeep Chakravorthy was chased out of Jaipur (Rajasthan) because he wanted to organise a show of his documentary film on fake encounters. Despite prior booking of the Pink City Press Club, he was not allowed to release his film. When he went to Muslim Musafirkhan...