TARGETING MUSLIMS A Bane of Plural Bharat

DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI analyses the report of the London-based Minority Rights Group (MRG) International released in New Delhi on July 1....

Mumbai Gets Its Own TED Talks

It’s touted as the most exciting seminar. In the United States TED Talks is a 20-year old platform where some of the most sought personalities from Donald Trump, Steve Jobs and Al Gore have shared their ideas and insights from their industries....

• US Social Forum Cancels Exploitative Zionist Workshop

Millennium Goals Revisited Noble Ideas, and Feel-Good Moments

When the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A decade later, despite all the official insistence that all is on track, it is increasingly clear that this approach to developme...

Sikhs, Hindus Help Rebuild Mosques Destroyed during Partition

CHANDER SUTA DOGRA�s �Shades Of The Old Punjab� published in Outlook (July 5) presents an in-depth report of how Sikhs and Hindus are helping restore mosques destroyed during Partition across Punjab. Here we are reproducing th...

Cow in Contemporary Political Chessboard

Karnataka BJP Government has passed “Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill 2010” (June 2010). There has been a strong opposition to this move from the civil society. Some of social activists point out that this...

Marching Backward, Historically

When the Qur'an was being revealed in Makkah and Madinah, the Arabs were generally not educated. In Makkah there were only a few dozens who used to know how to read and write.
Yet when the Quranic verses dealing with historic events related to the ...

AMU Special Centres Get Further Fillip

The University efforts to translate into reality the broad conceptual framework for the AMU Special Centres at Malappuram and Murshidabad received further fillip. In a preparatory meeting with EdCIL expert committee held at EdCIL headquarters, Noida ...

Obama's Vietnamistan

There is something surreal about the rise and fall of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, opines AIJAZ ZAKA SYED....