Muslim India

  A Journey Interrupted:  Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey [Harper Collins India; Rupees 295, Pages 279]   Being Muslim in India is a very hard job. Threatened and terrorised by ...

BOTH in India and abroad Indian Hindus seek everything to themselves, equality and better provisions for Hindus in their own ways. In India they argue that they are the masters hence they decide every thing. Abroad they argue they deserve preferential ...

ALTHOUGH Congress party is also pro-Hindu party functioning as a national party at All India level, it is BJP which is overtly identified as a clear pro-Hindu party with an ideology poisoned with slamming Islam and attacking Muslims  from platforms ...

THE popular Indian tourist city Jaipur was hit with a series of bomb blasts on last Tuesday resulting in over 80 people dead. Outside of the troubled regions of Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East, this is the tenth terror ...

IT is with utmost grief for us that a great 'Alim and Muhaddith of our time, Hazrat Moulana Anzar Shah Kashmiri (r.a.) - son of the great luminary, Moulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri (r.a.), departed this temporary abode at around on ...

MUMBAI: A Muslim man with new convert girl marriage drama that had played out in Mumbai several months ago involving a young couple ended tragically on Sunday when the groom was shot dead by unidentified assailants. Mohammad Hanif Shah, ...

NOT many people doubt the tacit understanding between the so-called secular and democratic parties like the Congress party and the overtly anti-Muslim communal parties like the BJP. Anti-Muslim agenda seems to be common in both these streams, but Congress party ...

INDIAN journalists, so used to insult Muslims the way they like because no one bothers to question them and Indian media are too glad pay sumptuous amount to any one who volunteer to slam Islam and insult Muslims, have  lost ...

Abridged, Edited and Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand This article appeared in the 16th March, 2008 issue of the Urdu daily 'Rashtriya Sahara', under the title 'Musalmano Par ...

THE recent split in the Jamiat ul-Ulema-e Hind, the leading body of the Indian Deobandi ulema, has received considerable coverage in the Urdu press. Most of those who have written on the subjected have lamented the split and have called ...

JAMIA Millia Islamia, New Delhi, awarded Mufti Mohd. Mushtaq Tijarvi Ph.D. degree on his research work “Shaikh Junaid Baghdadi aur Unka Tasawwuf”. Mufti Mushtaq, who has been rendering his services as Senior Lecturer at Islamic Academy, New Delhi, completed ...

NOW that Dr. Kalam is gone as President of India, both media and the "true" Indians must feel sigh of relief. Especially those Indians who live comfortably abroad joined their Indian "compatriots" in celebrating the exit of Kalam. But the ...

The era of US-led terror wars has helped anti-Muslim India to treat the Muslims as terrorists, the suspected and the potential ones. Indians living abroad and leading a comfortable life often enjoy "patriotic" rhymes and rejoice at praising ...

TO the principal minority of India, that is Bharat, the December 23 win of Mr. Narendra Modi in the 2007 Gujarat Assembly Elections is a victory of intolerance tempered with insolence. In the House of 182, 117 against the adversary’s ...

FASCISTS often use ballots rather than bullets to come to power. Hitler and Mussolini are the two notorious examples in the 20th century Europe. And when democratically elected Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975 she too was accused of being ...

NEW DELHI: Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, well-known Indian Muslim journalist and scholar, has been elected unopposed as the new President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations. He was one of the general ...

FASCINATION for torturing and murdering the Muslims after they are trapped through a series of strategies is too great for India which is bent on crippling their legitimate claims for joining the mainstream. It is deadly unfortunate that even the ...

TODAY, this question will be on the minds of majority of people of India and even weighing heavily with international community. Can an emerging economic power like India should be available to a fascist political movement that may wreck the ...

IT IS a known fact that the government agencies effectively control the activities of Mosques across the country through various "elected" bodies existing for looking after the Mosque affairs. Information is being passed on to the concerned personnel for a ...

KOLKATA (India): The West Bengal State Assembly yesterday passed The Aliah University Bill 2007 amidst the walk-out by Opposition members. The Bill has upgraded Calcutta Madrasah College (originally Madrasah Aaliah) into Aaliah University. Both Mr Partha Chatterjee, leader of ...