Dear Readers,
We were hoping to compile a list of some of the selected posts from 2008 into a nice pdf document as we did last year but due to time constraints we have not been able to do so. However here is a list nevertheless. Thank you for reading.
BOOK REVIEW
The Last Mughal - Inam Abidi Amrohvi
The Problem Of Caste Among Indian Muslims - Ayub Khan
CULTURE
“Begum” Was Waiting, But Master Never Returned – Shivkant Jha
Beyond Borders With Shubha Mudgal And Tina Sani – Raza Rumi
Kaifi Azmi – The Poet And The Man – Kaleem Kawaja
Muharram – The Paigis Of India – Adnan Alavi
Muslims’ Contribution To The Growth Of Music In India – Kaleem Kawaja
My Travel To Delhi – Raza Rumi
A Mis-spelt Name And Some Nostalgia – Syeda Semim Jahan
Which Religion Plants Belong? – Amina Ather
ISSUES
Who Shrunk The Muslim Intelligentsia? – Kaleem Kawaja
Discrimination By Housing Societies – Possible Legal Responses – Tarunabh Khaitan
Muslims Should Adopt Advocacy Instead Of Protests – Kaleem Kawaja
Sorry Sakina, My Friend, For Letting You Down – Ritika Ganguly
Whither Justice – Trajectory Of Srikrishna Report – Ram Puniyani
Rethinking Kashmir Politics – Yoginder Sikand
INDIAN ISLAM
Indian Deobandis Against Terrorism – Reiterating A Historical Tradition – Yoginder Sikand
India’s Islam – Arun Nair
The Mystic Message Of Tolerance – Sadia Dehlvi
The Role Of Madrasas In Inter-Faith Dialogue – Maulana Waris Mazhari
ISLAM
Taqlid, Ijtihad And Democracy – Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Jihad? But What About Other Verses In Quran? – Asghar Ali Engineer
Prophet Muhammad And The Mystics – Sadia Dehlvi
MOVIES
Khuda Ke Liye – Mirza Faisal Beg
PHOTO FEATURES
Halwa Paratha At Aligarh Numaish – Saad Akhtar
REPORT
Communal Riots Report 2007 – Asghar Ali Engineer
SOCIETY
Hyderabad’s Rare Book Seller – Ayub Khan
Muslim Women – The Dangerous Triangle – Nigar Ataulla
Need For Equitable Representation Of Minorities In The Administration Of Indian Government – Mirza Akhtar Beg
Neither Hindu Nor Muslims But A Bit Of Both – Rajasthan’s Cheeta Merats – Yoginder Sikand
SEWA – The Abodana For Muslim Women – Rupa Abdi
TERRORISM
A Letter To The Last Standing Terrorist – Mohib Ahmad
Indian Muslims Against Terrorism – Yoginder Sikand
It’s The Intelligence, Stupid! – Mirza Faisal Beg
Victims Of India’s War On Terror – Yoginder Sikand
26/11 And Urdu Press – Mubasshir Mushtaq
WORLD
Barack Obama Wins – Mirza Akhtar Beg
Congratulations to:
The editors of Indian Muslim Blog site for another very successful banner year. Indeed it is hard to believe that just two persons (Mohib Ahmed and Faisal Mirza), the editors of this site have so successfully edited, managed and maintained this site for the last few years. In addition to their regular jobs and family responsibilities they receive, edit and publish the articles, embelishing them with suitable photographs. They also read all comments that they receive, edit them and post them on the site. With this site winning awards its popularity has reached a high level. That means now they are receiving lot more columns and comments which has increased their workload and responsibility many fold.
These two gentlemen have maintained a very high standard of journalism and editorial content and a very balanced, thought provoking and meaningful dialogue among the religiously and ethnically diverse people of India.
I take the opportunity of extending the best wishes of many readers and subscribers of the IM Blog site. And we wish them greater success in the future. Keep up the good work.
As Salamu Aliekum(peace be upon all of you)….
Very Well Done And My Wishes To The Blog From The Bottom Of My Heart…..
I have some Suggestions, your blog talk about Islam, Jihad, Social Issues and so on… Why don’t you people bring scholar who can really tell as more better then the present Lot of writers and even reply the commentators, who have some interesting question to be asked to the writer…. I would love to see, scholars from jamati-Ulema-Hind, Jamati-Islamia, Deobadi, Barailve, Dr. Naik(Give him a chance to defend him self), you can have retire Judges, commissioners, social worker, people from Hindu Community, Topics on Education, Job Opportunities, some political voice(in form of debate between two Party leaders) and so on….
I Pray To Allah(swt) To Help And Support All the Lawful Wishes Of This Blog….Aameen…..
Jai Hind
Wassalam….
I second Kaleem and Wasim..I am glad that I found this blog..Helped me a lot in reading and understanding lot of perspectives,both religious,cultural and political..Thanks to Mohib and Faizal Mirza..and lot more thanks to the commenters who add lot of input..It is them who make the blog a worthy one..
Peace and Good day to all