Never again?

Friday 4 December '09

Painful and time-consuming as it is, perhaps you should read Liberhan’s report too....

A conditional charity

Thursday 19 November '09

The disgraceful conduct of a UK-based Muslim charity with the victim-survivors of the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat could have been ignored as an isolated, if highly deplorable act.

Salaams, Maulvi Saheb

Wednesday 28 October '09

A hundred and ten years after his death, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the man who was constantly reviled by the ulema of his time, is remembered...

A madrasa in mind

Saturday 10 October '09

Why is Deoband opposed to the Central Madrasa Board Bill?....

Listen, Mister

Wednesday 26 August '09

In case you didn’t know it already, scriptwriter, lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar can do many things with words: entertain, enthral, entrap.

Don’t ban it, question it

Tuesday 30 June '09

With the burqa back in the news, only one thing can be safely stated: the garment intended to render Muslim women...

Yesterday once more?

Thursday 21 May '09

As Muslim voters begin to return to the Congress after 20 years, a recap of the friends and foes they met

Whose Islam is it anyway?

Monday 6 April '09

Larger message behind the controversy over a Supreme Court judge’s remark on ‘beards’