The quality of judgement delivered by the special fast track court in the Godhra train burning case has shaken the faith of all Muslims in the Indian judiciary.  While the court has found ‘conspiracy theory’ as tenable, the “main conspirators” Moulana Umarji and Bilal Hussain Kalota who were charged by the police to have exhorted Muslims to commit the crime were let off – which glaringly point at the miscarriage of justice. Assuming that 31 accused in t...

Delhi PWD Minister Rajkumar Chauhan should be sacked if he does not resign at his own, for the great impropriety reported by state Lokayukt Justice Manmohan Sarin to President of India when the concerned minister misused his ministerial influence on taxation-authorities having gone to raid a popular resort in South Delhi for evasion of VAT.

Chief Minister of Delhi should take immediate action on report of state Lokayukt instead of awaiting any follow-up action by President of India on...

Shamim A. Siddiqi made a sad statement in the article “‘Egypt is free’–’Egypt is free’, Alhamdulillah” (Radiance 22-26 Feb, 2011). He wrote, “In these mass movements and would-be uprisings in the near future, the role of Islamic Movements has been, and very likely to be, very nominal or marginal. Unfortunately they could not feel the pulses of their youth who organised the mass uprisings through Internet services on mass scale and have ...