Muslim representation in the Lok Sabha and legislatures across the states in India is coming down election after elections. While some sections of Muslims have been pleading for reservation for the community in legislatures, a more worrying aspect has skipped the attention of the community i.e., seats and segments with Muslim preponderance being reserved for…
UPA is clearly out of favour for its sins of price rise and corruption. With Congress fortunes appearing to be on irreversible decline, Muslims’ quest for an alternative at the Centre should begin in right earnest. In all likelihood, the Indian National Congress’ tally in the 542-member Lok Sabha will not exceed 130 in the…
It is gratifying to note that a poll agenda for the 2014 has been put forth by a conclave of Muslim representatives who gathered in New Delhi last month on the invitation of the Zakat Foundation of India. Notwithstanding all its shortcomings, the maiden exercise on behalf of the community is welcome as no one…
The shutters will finally come down on Amanath Cooperative Bank in Bangalore. The management has resolved to allow its takeover by the nationalized Canara Bank. The Muslim managed bank which served the community for close to 35 years will go down in the annals of Muslim history as yet another fiasco and a classic case…
The carnages carried out by the Islamist militants in Peshawar church and Nairobi shopping mall should serve as warning from the extremist forces that they can strike at will against the civilized world at their chosen time and place. No words could be enough to condemn the outrageous act perpetrated by the merchants of hate…
We are today in an age of “options.” For almost everything we need in life, we have many different choices that we can make. Take food, for instance. You can now get two dozen brands of just one particular food item in a supermarket where, a few years ago, just one brand was available. From…
Open the newspapers every day and there are columns upon columns reporting horror deaths, including suicides by girls and boys, old and young. A careful study of the causes of these suicides reveals that “family pressure” drives children, men and women to end their lives. Take the recent case of a young, newly-married, girl, a…
One year is too small a period to judge the leadership of a nation that had suffered almost six decades of dictatorship. By this yardstick, ouster of the Mohammad Mursi’s government cannot be justified, given the fact that he could not have succeeded in stemming, let alone reversing, the rot. Yet Mursi and the Muslim…
The chilling accounts of the fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in 2004, further reinforce the apprehensions that the campaign against terrorism by security agencies has gone totally haywire. It was only three years before that veils over fallacious investigation were ripped apart and the hands of the real culprits…
By the time this issues reaches the hands of our readers, holy month of Ramazan would be upon us. All those of us who find the month revisiting us, must feel fortunate, for having been blessed with yet another opportunity to harvest a bountiful crop of virtues. No matter how much we strive, the bounties…
