WTO The Scourge of Farmers' Misery

SYED SULTAN MOHIDDIN analyses the factors that are pushing Indian farmers to land alienation, debt traps and suicides, and suggests to the Manmohan Singh government to get agriculture out of the WTO negotiations....

Mumbai Carnage and Hit-and-Run Terrorists

On November 26, 2008, Pakistani terrorists attacked Mumbai. They not only terrorised the people of Mumbai but also terrorised the entire Indian subcontinent. At the global level, the people glued themselves to their seats and watched the naked dance ...

Maharashtra Assembly Election, 09 Introductory Note on Maharashtra and Guidelines for Muslim Voters

Maharashtra ranks 4th among the states of the Union from the point of view of Muslim population. It comes immediately after UP, West Bengal and Bihar. With a population of 10.3 million Muslims, it has 7.43% of the National Muslim population and ...

Don't Fail Us, Obama!

It is up to Obama if he wants to make history or end up as a footnote to history, just as his predecessors have, opines AIJAZ ZAKA SYED...

Face to Face with a Disciple of Ali Mian

SHAH IBADUR RAHMAN ALIAS NISHAT is one of the direct disciples of Late Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. Born and brought up at Lakhminia in Begusarai district of Bihar, he did his MA in English from Bihar University and worked as a lecturer in a college...

All of This was through the Grace of Allah

By JASON CRUZ...

Justice This Time Around Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?

‘We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,’ Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-mem...

Conditions for Reconciliation with Justice Do Not Obtain in Gujarat -- Harsh Mander

Prof. Irfan Habib’s tribute to Harsh Mander in glowing terms that it was reassuring to know that the country which witnessed massacres like Gujarat has given birth to not only Gandhi, but a person like him, of whom we were all proud, summed up ...

Interview with Maulana Shafi Moonis

I am thankful to T Azeez Luthfullah for his compliments on and appreciation of the interview of Maulana Shafi Moonis by me (Radiance 27 Sept-3 Oct). It is agreed that more and more pearls should be dug from Maulana Shafi Moonis, the ‘mine of kn...