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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat being welcomed in Meghalaya (Twitter)
'We are not at war': Muslim leaders keen on continuing dialogue with RSS
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Shaifat Ali's bodybuilding gold bares changing face of Madrasa education
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Chinese Premier Xi Jinping with Vietnam's President Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Trong (Courtesy: China Daily)
After friendship without limits with Russia, comes the turn of Vietnam
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After friendship without limits with Russia, comes the turn of Vietnam
Saeed Naqvi  It is possible to speculate that Russia’s special military operations may not have been launched on 24 February 2022 had American/Western drumbeating to lure Russia into Ukraine for a proxy war not reached a crescendo, the clashing of multiple cymbals et al, throughout February.  The West began to froth in the mouth after Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed MOUs without number in Beijing on February ...
05 Feb 2023
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In Islam, knowledge is power
Eman Sakina Islam pays special attention to knowledge, so much so that Islam is regarded as a religion (way of life) of learning and knowledge. It upholds that man is created to know and fulfill his honorable vicegerency mission accordingly. Knowing means succeeding; not knowing implies failure and ruin. Knowledge is the source of all goodness, ignorance the source of all evil and sin. Knowledge in Islam is synonymous with light and gu...
04 Feb 2023
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Women's status in Islam must be seen in context of pre-Islam Arabia
Salim Rashid Shah It's said and passionately argued by most of the scholars of Islam that ‘The basic message of the Quran is socio-economic justice and essential human egalitarianism.’ It's in this light that the status of a woman in Islam must be explained and subsequently theorized. Friday Musings Pre-Islamic Arabia was steeped in darkness to an extent that women were significantly invisibilized and reduced...
03 Feb 2023
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Caliphate, Islamic State, Jihad, Modern Democracy and Muslims
Saquib Salim Khilafah, Caliphate, Islamic Sate, Jihad and Darul Islam are a few terms which dominate the debate among Muslims on social media as well as at public forums. Quite a considerable proportion of young Muslims, in India and elsewhere, believe that formation and maintenance of an Islamic State is a religious duty of all Muslims. Abu Ala Maududi Non Muslims also, because of these views expressed by a few, believe t...
30 Jan 2023
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Is the BBC Documentary “India: the Modi Question” neutral in its approach
J K Tripathi The last week saw a new controversy in form of the release of part one of the two-part BBC documentary “India: the Modi Question” which was enough to further heat up the already charged political landscape of India. The documentary reportedly deals with the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi initially as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in the year 2000 and the communal riots thereafter. The BBC claims the documenta...
25 Jan 2023
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Egyptians are proud people and love India: Ambassador Saran
Tripti Nath/New Delhi Former Deputy National security Adviser Pankaj Saran says Egyptians love India and there are many similarities between the two countries. He was speaking on the renewed efforts to bring the two countries together with the ongoing visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah-El-Sisi to India. Saran, who has known Egypt from the time he was posted there for three years as a young diplomat, says that Egyptians and Indian...
25 Jan 2023
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Awaz the Voice launches Marathi portal on 2nd anniversary
Dear Readers, Today Awaz-The Voice has completed two years since its launch on the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 2021. We started as a small team of dreamers, who set out on the tough journey of a new kind of journalism. We had three editions in the beginning -English, Hindi & Urdu, later in 2021 we came up with our Assamese edition. Like our first three editions, Assamese also became a huge success. We are today happy ...
24 Jan 2023
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The story of Amul: Giant economic strides by small farmers:
Sushma Ramachandran The news that R.S. Sodhi, managing director of the iconic dairy products brand, Amul for the past 12 years has resigned, set in motion considerable speculation over the reasons for his exit. His leadership tenure spanned an era during which the organisation leapfrogged from a turnover of Rs. 8000 crores to Rs. 71000 crores. Whatever the reasons for his departure, there is no doubt that Amul and its dairy product...
16 Jan 2023
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When 6,00,000 Indians lost power In Fiji, Did India take note?
Saeed Naqvi  How would the Indian media respond if 6,00,000 people of Indian origin lost power in perpetuity on a remote Pacific island? Even if they had been incarcerated, I suspect the reaction would have been the same – ask Reuters to file more details.  When I read last week in The Economist a 1,000-word report on Fijian strongman Sitiveni Rabuka installed as the island nation’s Prime Minister for the thir...
15 Jan 2023
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Rahul’s Yatra changing national mood
Saeed Naqvi  At 52, one thing Rahul Gandhi has confirmed is his physical fitness by walking 2000 miles for his Bharat Jodo Yatra and looking none the worse for it.  This he had established beyond any shadow of a doubt during his visit to Tamil Nadu. Priests and teachers of St Joseph’s Higher Secondary school watched Gandhi outshine their champion athlete in rapid pushups. Just in case there were school partisans sti...
08 Jan 2023
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Moderate Islam is the key
Atir Khan In the fast-moving world of disruptions, nations and communities are looking inwards at the big picture trying to find space for themselves. Indian Muslims also need to do some introspection for the larger good. The learnings from the worldwide disruptions last year tell us moderation is the key to human survival. Saudi Arabia, a country where Islam originated has started opening itself up to the unthinkable ideas, which ...
02 Jan 2023
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A proxy war could not oust Assad; can It defeat Russia?
Saeed Naqvi  Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky’s nearly three-hour talks with President Biden in the White House ended with a press conference. Biden, replying to a question, showed a chink in his armour which his western cheerleaders have for obvious reasons not amplified.  The Sunday Story   Just as the US President was carrying on about the assistance in arms, including Patriot anti-missile batteri...
01 Jan 2023
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Pakistan: Will Imran Khan succeed in his maneuvers?
JK Tripathi The firebrand founder-leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran khan Niazi has once again proved how fast can he make a volte-face by shifting his stands on the demand of fresh elections.  In March last, Khan unsuccessfully tried to create a narrative that PML(N) and PPP combine, in collusion with the “Establishment”, had conspired to dethrone his government with the involvement of the USA and tri...
29 Dec 2022
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Messi, Mbappe, World Cup are nuggets on Qatar’s super exceptionalism
Saeed Naqvi The family sat around the TV set as around an altar or a God during the football matches until the curtain came down on history’s greatest final in front of the 88,966 strong in the Lusair stadium in Qatar and an audience of incalculable billions worldwide. The Sunday Story The Cassandras were proved wrong as Qatar successfully continued to wear its own brand of exceptionalism on its sleeve. History will rememb...
25 Dec 2022
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Eerie silence over Afghanistan could end with a bang
Saeed Naqvi  Ever since the Americans left Afghanistan, in August 2022 after a 20-year occupation, the country has become something of a black hole, information-wise. Sporadically wire services report that gunmen had targeted a hotel in Kabul popular with the Chinese. Earlier Russian journalists were searching for details on a blast in the Russian Embassy. The embassy has never been so targeted.  Shia places of worship have b...
18 Dec 2022
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Egyptian freedom, Gandhi and Muslim League
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Egypt and India fought against the British Raj together
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