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In the classic tradition, every great work of art quintessentially offers a refuge in peace, and a profoundly personal and yet universal spirit. It digs its way into your deeper inner self in strange and unexpected ways. You feel like being hugged by a friend who, you thought, would never come back to you. It’s all about a very subjective spirituality - the experience of love’s calmness and catharsis. Explaining it, you would surely fail. Like you’d find yourself a laughing stock while describing your love for someone you love really well.

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Knowledge of muslim women in the past was packed in the pages edited by men. This is especially so in magazines and journals in the “progressive” reform minded circles. There are some posts reserved for women; but that too in the administrative or public relations departments. Even women’s magazines were edited by men. Past is past. Some brave women editors and magazines have started to clog the limelight. They help muslim women to be connected to one another through inspirational stories and life experiences.

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February, this year Pragaash (means First Light) – the first all-girl-musical-band of Kashmir after a brief musical journey in the beginning decided to quit in the wake of a fatwa issued against them.  The band members had live performances spiced with music and energy to make the people around them happy, but what they got in return was a string of death and rape threats on their social media pages and mobile phones.

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SPIKY BANANA BALLS

When we hear of visitors turning up we often crave for some magic recipe at hand so as to impress them well. Even though not always, sometimes something or the other may go wrong when in a hurry burry and we end up spoiling the mood. It is always desirable to have short, simple and scrummy recipes at hand so that they will be useful to us whenever needed. It saves a lot of time, effort and definitely keeps you away from all the pressure. Check out the simple recipe; sure it will be loved by one and all.

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Indeed, the popular culture of Hollywood or the American global culture forces us to see people helpless. Only the US can help and protect them from any ‘monstrosities’. After the 9/11 attack they succeeded to make us believe that they are the global police all set for an agenda with the support of media.

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Asghar Ali Engineer (b.1931) is a pioneering Indian scholar and the author as well as editor of more than fifty books. He is both an activist and intellectual known for his profound commitment to issues of social justice in Islam. He has written extensively on justice, liberation, gender, reform, peace, violence and modernism. His new biography 'A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change' is an account of his life long struggle as an Indian Muslim.

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The life of Prophets are never their alone. Their life links us with the Eternity, the Source of all lives. Whatever they do even in the inner chamber of their home is monitored and justified or corrected by the Revelation. Their life is added to the text of Revelation in order to interpret the latter. Truly, a Prophets are interpretations of how the supernatural comes in communion with the natural. They are the receptacle of the Word.

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I am a filmmaker by profession. The taboo which existed among Muslims against watching and making Muslims seems to have been broken many decades. Even the ultra-conservative Muslim groups in my locality have started to make films. So my question is not about the permissibility of watching or making films. It is about the ethics and etiquette that a filmmaker must stick to. There are films with violence and sex (to cite two major themes), which ultimately speak for shunning violence and sexual perversion.