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Monday May 20, 2013

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Biennale’s Spiritual Solace Read more Magazines: Where the ‘Muslimah’ Speaks Read more Tracing the Pragaash: Hard-lines of Melophobia Read more A Recipe at Hand Read more A Political Myth-Making Read more Asghar Ali Engineer: An Incomplete Story Read more Life of Muhammad: A Critical Engagement Read more Etiquette of a Muslim Filmmaker Read more Dynamics of Information Ecology Read more A Dirge to English Muslim Magazines Read more

Misfortunes of Two Indian Stars

KC Saleem

Headlines about two Indian actors have recently gone viral. They are Bollywood’s own King Khan and Kollywood’s own King Kamal. Shah Rukh Khan wrote an article titled ‘Being a Khan’ in the Outlook Turning Point Magazine on the agonies of carrying a name, Khan. Kamal Hassan made Vishwaroopam (Global Shape), a film on the most pressing problem of our time: terrorism. It was mired in controversy.

Shah Rukh wrote in the article what it meant to be an actor and what it meant to be a Khan, being unusually aloud on the latter. Some of the points he said are what...

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Palestine : When Democracy Kills

Tariq Ramadan

Image Credit : REUTERS Palestinians evacuate a wounded man after an Israeli air strike, witnessed by a Reuters journalist, on a floor in a building that also houses media offices in Gaza City November 19, 2012.

In a world that celebrates the onward march of democracy, the Palestinian people have been left behind. When the first free elections (internationally recognized as fair and transparent) were held in the Occupied Territories in 2006, the democratic victory of Hamas rapidly plunged the Palestinians into a cycle of endless violence. The people had chosen the wrong winners and...

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The Syrian cauldron

Bashar al Ibrahim

World anxiously anticipates in the midst of all-around violence the day when Bashar al Assad may join Hosni Mubarak and Qaddafi.
On August 2, when this analysis was being written, agencies reported that Syrian Army which backs President Bashar al Assad, let loose a spate of violence in the capital city of Damascus. In the shell bombing the day before many more rebels are supposed to have been annihilated, both the attacks taking the toll to 70 with the exception of 43 dead bodies that were found in west Damascus. Representatives of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebel faction,...

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New AIDS: Fear Rules the Roost

S Bindhu

As medical history the world over has always been linked to political maneuvering, it has yet to be seen, and it's the duty of all concerned to see, whether the disease might not be used as a springboard for anti-immigrant hysteria.

It is believed that Charles Darwin, in pursuit of fossiles to prove his theory of evolution, was bitten by an insect which carried what is now widely called as the new AIDS. Those who may attach taboos and social conceptions regarding sexuality to the word AIDS may conjure up the images of promiscuity to the new AIDS as well....

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'West's hypocrisy: 'Grass beats the tin drum'

S Bindhu

Guntar Grass has again been in the news. Shocked earlier by his revelations about his involvement as a seventeen-year-old in the Nazi SS during the World War II in his autobiography 'Peeling the Onion', the Nobel laureate author has shouted in a poem titled 'What Must Be Said' against the policies the Israel government is following. Published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the poem describes Israel as an aggressive country. He advises Germany to stop 'providing materials for a crime
that is foreseeable.' The crime meant is 'the...

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