Your editorial has an apt comment on the UP election results (Radiance 20-26 May) when you say: “If there is a semblance of cooperation for certain constructive objectives, these 56 MLAs can play a very significant role in UP politics”.
I too join you in the hope that these MLAs can do something through the secular aspects of Islam – call it Islam's Secular Universalism (ISU) if you wish – in order to be truly useful to the masses of UP, particularly the Poor An...

This refers to your editorial (Radiance, 27 May-2 June): “This is high time the UPA Government clamped a blanket ban on those communal and fascist organisations that are hell bent upon making a hell of our country before it is too late.”
The ruling government of UPA – or for that matter, any other government – may well be “requested” for not becoming “too late”; but the hard fact is that, it is “never too late” for them. Prim...

There is no dearth of scapegoats in 'secular' India. After all, 'someone' should be captured or encountered to close the crime file in the police records, whenever a terrorist act happens in Malegaon or Hyderabad. The travesty of truth being that the terrorist invariably happens to be a Muslim.  So, each time Muslims are killed in bomb blasts, police cracks the case in no time, by killing or arresting the likes of Ghulam Yezdani, Shahid Bilal or Shoaib Jagirdar. The media too stands hung...