LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2009 Time to Break Free from Political Bondage
Vol. XLVII No. 2
Date: April 12, 2009
Indian Americans Demand implementation of Ravi Chander Report
Indian Muslim Council-USA (IMC-USA), an advocacy group dedicated towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, joined thousands of Indian Americans in demanding the full implementation of the recommendations made in…
Solidarity’s Symbolic Road Construction Gets Public Attention
Solidarity State Working Committee member Mr. K A Faisal flayed the attempt of the State Government of Kerala to yield the roads to the corporate companies in the name of…
Our Secular Constitution is a Great Binding Force: Justice Katju
India is a country of great diversities. If we have to run this country, we have to accord equal respect to every citizen. Our secular Constitution is a great binding…
Justice Katju’s ‘Talibanisation’ remarks ‘bizarre’ and ‘uncalled for’
The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat has expressed its dismay at the observation attributed to Supreme Court’s Justice Markandeya Katju while rejecting a Muslim student’s right to sport beard, that “Talibanisation…
IPL’s Stake
Shifting the IPL tournament abroad is as good as divulging the government and people. The decision was taken in a haste and even the Union Minister’s advice was ignored.
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As a student and teacher of constitutional law and political science, I can say it is indeed a bad judgment. The issue is not of secularism but of religious rights which is…
Review the Judgement
Rabindranath Tagore was (and our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is) a Talibani. This is a natural corollary of the strange logic Justice Katju of the Supreme Court came up with…
The G-20 Summit
The G-20 summit held at London with the U.S. and Britain at the helm of affairs has obviously resolved to put the derailed globalisation back on the track.
Divine Boundaries vs. Human Boundaries
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
SC REMARKS ON BEARD, BURQA UN-CONSTITUTIONAL: ER. MOHD. SALEEM
“The Supreme Court’s remark on Beard and Burqa is unfortunate,” Er. Mohammad Saleem, State President Jamaat-e-Islami Hind said on April 1. “It is totally un-constitutional and violation of the ‘right…
HINDI WEBSITE ON INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM LAUNCHED
A Hindi website, www.islamdharma.org to introduce Islam to the Hindi-knowing people was launched on March 28.
CPM FOR CBI PROBE INTO MISSILE DEAL WITH ISRAEL
The CPI(M) on March 28 demanded a CBI inquiry into the Rs 10,000-crore missile production agreement entered into by the Defence Ministry with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), alleging involvement of…
PAWAR BLAMES RSS FOR NANDED, OTHER BLASTS
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on March 29 accused the RSS of involvement in the 2006 Nanded blast.
REBELLION AGAINST THE CONGRESS NOMINEE IN DHULE-MALEGAON IMMINENT
Angered by the Congress High Command’s decision to deny its leader the party ticket for the Dhule-Malegaon Parliamentary Constituency, disgruntled Congress party workers burnt the effigy of the party nominee…
MUSLIM LEADERS OBJECT TO PC’S REMARK ON JAIPUR BLASTS
Muslim groups in Rajasthan have taken strong exception to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram declaring that the May 13, 2008, Jaipur serial blasts case has been solved.
Ferocious Whiskers
According to the Chambers, moustache is the thin hair upon the upper lip of man. All the standard dictionaries do shed light upon it, but leave much to be desired.…
Maulana Badruddin Ajmal and His Party Prepare for Elections 2009
Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF), one of the prominent political parties in Assam, which claims to represent the minorities and deprived sections of the society, gears up for the coming…
Intifada: A Third Chapter
Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims,…
Dealing with the Financial Crisis An Islamic Approach
PROF. NEJATULLAH SIDDIQI notes the main causes of the current financial crisis, discusses how we can get out of this undesirable situation, and suggests systemic changes that should accompany economic strategies…
Man must Learn to Live in Moderation: Prof. Nejatullah Siddiqi
Prof. Nejatullah Siddiqi, a renowned scholar and authority on Islamic Finance, said that philosophy of greed and individualism must give way to a cooperative approach to living. Prof. Siddiqi was…
‘Be Serious in Determining the Aim of life’
Born in 1980 in a Tahreeki family of Kerala, and having been associated with Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) since his early youth, SUHAIL K.K., an M.Com., is now…
Tactical Partners or Ideological Collaborators
When the BJP started realising that it cannot come to power alone in India in mid-1990s, it extended its hand of friendship towards some secular and socialist friends. While the…
From Parties in Plenty to Alliances Galore Changing Phases of
SOROOR AHMED discusses the changing phases of democracy in India and says that instead of parties it is now the alliances which are breaking and then re-emerging.
Go Get Going and Achieve Your Goal
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Unfortunate, Unconstitutional
Unfortunate, bizarre, uncalled for, biased, communal, disappointing, saddening, against the secular fabric of the nation, violative of one of the fundamental rights and thus unconstitutional, etc. These are some of…
LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2009 Time to Break Free from Political
N. Jamal Ansari analyses the election scenario vis-à-vis Muslims in India, and suggests to the Muslims to break free from the political bondage of any political party and exercise their franchise…
Defending Hatred
As in the past, elections for the15th Lok Sabha are also being fought in a less-than-egalitarian ambience and for less-than-laudable purposes. It is pure greed and un-alloyed lust for power…
