Who had even heard of it? A nondescript little used mosque somewhere in the city of Ayodhya in central India. On 6 Dec 1992, Babri Masjid became the mosque that no one in India would ever forget, a national wound that 15 years later, still throbs, still pierces the hearts of those who lost forever [...]
As I read this article on Yahoo recently, a sense of resignation hit me.
Mecca’s hallowed skyline transformed: Excerpts
The building boom is in some cases destroying Mecca’s historic heritage, not just overshadowing it. In 2002, Saudi authorities tore down a 200-year-old fort built by the city’s then-rulers, the Ottomans, on a hill overlooking the Kaaba to [...]
Syed Shahabuddin continue to impress me with his articles, he is one of the best living intellectual minds of Indian Muslims. About a year ago he restarted his publication “Muslim India.” If nothing else in that magazine, his editorial is reason enough to subscribe this journal.
The editorial of April issue of Muslim India is [...]
Anyone who has gone to mosque to take Arabic lessons as a kid can identify with this pic. I love the way the girls are shying from a stranger with one of them peeping through an eye. The shot was clicked in Agra.
Picture courtesy Jeroen van Keel at Flickr. I have also added this beautiful [...]
Kashif Hoda offers a nice suggestion that small Madrasas attached with local mosques can double up as primary/secondary schools in India, considering the relatively lower literacy rate of Indian Muslims. Since most Muslim communities have a mosque and they are used for either prayers or as a part-time Madrasa, it would be a good idea [...]
