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Invitation: Performance Traditions Among The Indian Muslims

by Yousuf Saeed

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Cordially invites you to an eight day event

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Jamiat in Jeopardy: Uncle-Nephew Strife Splits Leading Indian Ulema Body

by Yoginder Sikand

The power grabbing politics, contrary to the ‘Islamic’ lip-service, leading to Jamiat split

Starving in Bundelkhand: The tragedy of rural India

by Adnan Alavi

In rural Bundelkhand poor are trying to survive on grass while urban India is busy with Sensex

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Muharram in India: The Paigis of Kanpur

by Adnan Alavi

Muharram commomeration by the Paigis of Kanpur who keep running for three days without resting.

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Whose India Is This, Anyway? – Part II

by Asad Mustafa

In the first part of this article I argued why I consider Hindu militant nationalism practiced by RSS/ VHP brand of politics the greatest threat being faced by Indian nation. Expectedly my observation raised objections – most of them well meaning- that classifying communalism as minority or majority is self defeating as it tries to [...]

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Remembering Babri Masjid

by Shama

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 [...]

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Lessons for the BJP

by Sharique

I cannot express my emotions after I read the BJP directed drama script. The protagonist, Master Jee, is an ideal  representative of BJP wala who tries to exhort people to vote for his party. He bases his opinion of the dangers of not voting for it as Muslims present the greatest danger [...]

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Musharrafee Imam Bukhari

by Sharique

Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmad Shah Bukhari said “We will approach the apex court challenging the Allahabad High Court decision that denies minority status to Muslims in Uttar Pradesh”. Stating that the court’s decision would send a negative message among the Muslim community, he said “the heads of all [...]

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The SICKular parties

by Sharique

My grandfather once remarked, “Mulayam Singh Yadav is the best person for the job of PM of this country because of Muslim appeasement and the wonderful job he has done in UP”.
That was during the time of Babri Masjid demolition. He again repeated his statement during the Gujarat riots in 2002. A person who was [...]

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