Like Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) which is now banned, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is also an organisation of students. The difference between the two is that the activists of SIMI were never booked for murder, but an ABVP activist has been.

Now a question arises why SIMI was banned and ABVP isn’t, though the activist of ABVP has committed a very serious and heinous crime. But it is an irony that those w...

For the attack on Parliament, Afzal was one of those in the dock. Why not the then PM Vajpayee, who had openly and publicly announced only a day earlier, at Sharad Pawar’s birthday celebrations at Mumbai’s Race Course ground, that he has intelligence warning of such a planned attack on Parliament. Why did he not take precaution? Why he deliberately slacked security, to enable the terrorists to enter the Parliament premises. Why had he taken such a ...

This refers to Dr. Javed Jamil’s article ‘Polygamy versus Promiscuity’ (Radiance Viewsweekly, 17-23 September). The author seems to view polygamy from a sexual angle. I have gone through the Holy Qur’n (proud to have a copy with me) and find that the Holy Prophet as said by the Almighty did not sanction polygamy for sexual mania, but for protecting the family status of women who hitherto were without partners. It should be seen t...