I am surprised by Soroor Ahmed's inability to distinguish between elected posts of President, Vice-President and recruitment to public employment (Radiance, 29 July-4 August 2007 pp. 18-19). I agree with him that the representation of Muslims in legislatures is disproportionately low. This is partly because the political parties do not field adequate number of Muslim candidates even from Muslim concentration constituencies. But it is also because of division of Muslim votes among Muslim ...

The judgments delivered in the cases related to Mumbai blasts 1993 are now complete. The guilty of the crimes have been punished. Most of those punished spoke their hearts out by saying that though they are being punished, those who were involved in the 1992-93 riots have gone scot-free. Srikrishna Commission formed in the aftermath of these riots had done a marvellous work in identifying the guilty of the crimes. One remembers that Shiv Sena first stopped this commission half way and th...

More than 900 were killed and thousands were injured in anti-Muslim riots of 1992-93 in Mumbai. Justice Srikrishna boldly named the people responsible for the dance of death and destruction. He also criticised and condemned the Mumbai Police Force and named 15 police officers and 16 constables of the city for abetting rioters in killing Muslims.

The criminals of March 1993 Mumbai bomb-blasts have been awarded death sentence, life imprisonment, etc. by the Tada Court while the cri...

It refers to Union Information & Broadcasting Ministry resisting right approach of Union Health Ministry to impose a ban on cola-advertisements. It is unfortunate that in India, lust for revenue by the government make commoners suffer from diseases caused by harmful products. A total ban on cigarettes like Ireland and Bhutan is also not imposed to avoid loss of revenue even though the fact remains that government spends much more on diseases caused by smoking and heavy publicity-mone...