It is well-known that with tons and tons of food grains rotting for want of better preservation and an efficient distribution system, India’s infants die or remain stunted for want of nutrition. Every fourth Indian goes to sleep hungry. The fault lies in the last-mile delivery of food to the hungry. Still our ambitious Food Security Bill is so apathetic towards this very aspect of food distribution. The chapter XII of the draft simply passes this great responsibility to same discredited...

It refers to welcome the Supreme Court verdict on endorsing ‘Right to Education (RTE) Act,’ which makes it mandatory for private unaided schools to admit 25 per cent students from economically weaker section of society. The verdict will induce equality in the society where some really talented students remain deprived of better education as they could not afford to get into reputed schools. There was a time when meritorious students emerged only from government-aided schools in De...

The Ayah Laysal-Birrah (Surah Baqarah - 177) (“Qur’ān’s Concept of Birr” by Syed Akbar Hassan, Radiance 25-31 Mar, 2012) has been very nicely explained. This, in fact, is a yardstick for a person who claims to be Muslim to judge himself as to what qualities he/she has embodied in his character, before claiming to be recognised as a Muslim. After explaining ‘righteousness’ in his book Keynotes of Holy Qur’ān...