Dr. Mohammed Haneef’s release from his 25-day illegal detention in Australia is a big relief not only to his family but also to all those people who believe that no innocent should be punished and no guilty spared. One can imagine the agony he had undergone all these days for no fault of his and due to the highhandedness of the Australian authorities concerned.

The Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh deserves all praise and thanks for his timely statement and action to ...

The dropping of terror charges against Dr. Mohammed Haneef after his horrible misery is an indictment of his accusers; it is the humiliation of the  wicked Christian Fundamentalism, presently  sparing no imaginable subterfuge to demonise Islam; and it is the victory of  the  Indo-Australian peoples’ conscience which has conclusively demonstrated that the humanity is fast emerging as a single unified force in its desperate attempt to save this world from total an...

The Indian doctor is now out of prison and all charges against him have been dropped. The turnaround came after glaring inconsistencies in the doctor’s case were investigated and it was found that the evidence against him was indeed very flimsy. Sadly, much damage has been caused to Haneef, his family and the entire community and to the psyche of the society. How would this be brought back the way it was earlier? Was it the right way to deal with a terror “suspect&r...

I refer to the new Chairman of the Delhi Minority Commission, Mr. Kamal Faruqui’s interactive conversation with Mohammad Asim Khan published in Radiance (24 - 30 June).

In this conversation, he has said that educational development of Muslims would be his top priority in his new position and that he would try to achieve 100% literacy in Delhi’s minority communities. With due respect, I would like to request Mr. Faruqui to re-examine...