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2011

               ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION

 

2010

 

            ·         MUSLIMS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE FORMATION OF CONGRESS AND  

            FREEDOM STRUGGLE

 

           ·          WOMEN RESERVATION BILL AND POLITICS OF OBCS AND MINORITIES

    

           ·          STATE AND LIBERAL IDEAS

           ·         COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL - HOW USEFUL TO VICTIMS?

           ·         WOMEN WHO DARED

           ·      CAN ALLAH BE MONOPOLISED BY ANY COMMUNITY?

           ·          COMMUNAL RIOTS 2009

  

2009

 

·          PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE – FROM AYODHYA TO AJMER, December 16-31, 2009

·          BABRI MASJID DEMOLITION AND LIBERHAN COMMISSION REPORT, December 1-

      15,2009

·          EXTREMIST VIOLENCE AND ITS CAUSES, November 16-30, 2009

·          ISLAM AND SOCIAL REFORMS, November 1-15, 2009

·          VINOBA BHAVE AND HIS UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM, October 16-31, 2009

·          SUFISM- CULTURE AND POLITICS, October 1-15, 2009

·          SOME THOUGHTS ON CONFEDERATION IN THE SUB-CONTINENT, September 16-  

      30, 2009

·          MAULANA AZAD AND PARTITION, September 1-15, 2009

·          NEHRU, JINNAH AND PARTITION, August 16-31, 2009

·          SHIBLI NU’MANI AND NATIONAL POLITICS, August 1-15, 2009

·          THE BURQA CONTROVERSY, July 16-31, 2009

·          RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND DEMOCRACY, July 1-15, 2009

·          SOME THOUGHTS ON INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE – June 16-30, 2009

·          ELECTION RESULTS, NEW GOVERNMENT AND ITS TASKS – June 1-15, 2009

·          RELIGION A SOURCE OF CONFLICT OR RESOURCE FOR PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA? –       

      May 16-31, 2009

·          ISLAM IN DEMOCRACY – May 1-15, 2009

·          WHY CODIFICATION OF MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW? – April 16-30, 2009

·          BRAVO ELECTION COMMISSION – April 1-15, 2009

·          INDIAN MUSLIMS - MODERATION AND EXTREMISM – March 16-31, 2009

·          INDIA IS DARUL AMAN MR. SINGHAL – March 1-15, 2009

·          DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND MINORITIES IN INDIA – February 16-28, 2009

·          MADRASA EDUCATION MYTH AND REALITY – February 1-15, 2009

·          COMMUNAL RIOTS DURING THE YEAR THAT WAS (2008) - January 16-31, 2009

·          COMMUNAL RIOTS DURING THE YEAR THAT WAS (2008) - January 1-15, 2009

 

2008

·              TERRORIST ATTACK ON MUMBAI – WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? – December – 16-31,

        2008

·              MALEGAON BOMB BLASTS AND HINDUTVA EXTREMISTS – December 1-15, 2008

·              MUSLIM PARTY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE – November 16-30, 2008

·              AND NOW HINDU TERRORISTS? – November 1-15, 2008

·              HOW SECULAR IS INDIA TODAY? – October 16-31, 2008

·              TERRORISM, POLICE AND MINORITIES – October 1-15, 2008

·              AND THEY STRUCK AGAIN – Sept. 16-30, 2008

·              TERRORISM, COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND POLICE – Sept. 1-15, 2008

·              JAMMU ON FIRE- HOW TO DESTROY INTEGRITY OF THE COUNTRY – August,  16-31,

        2008

·              TERROR ATTACKS – IS THERE ANY WAY OUT? – August 1-15, 2008

·              DISCONTENTS OF DEMOCRACY – July 16-31, 2008

·              TERRORISM – HOW NOT TO COMBAT IT – July 1-15, 2008

·              BJP RISING TO POWER AGAIN? – June 16-30, 2008

·              SOME THOUGHTS ON COMPOSITE CULTURE OF INDIA – Part (II) – June 1-15, 2008

·              SOME THOUGHTS ON COMPOSITE CULTURE OF INDIA – Part (I) – May 16-31, 2008

·              DEMOCRACY – INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION? – May  1-15, 2008

·              ISLAM-MUSLIMS AND TERRORISM – April 16-30, 2008

·              DIVORCE IN QUR’AN AND SHARI’AH – April 1-15, 2008

·              CONVERSION – A REVIEW ARTICLE – March 16-31, 2008

·              ISLAMIC SHARI’AH IN THE WESTERN WORLD – March 1-15, 2008

·              DEMOCRACY, PAROCHIALISM AND PEACE

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS 2007 (Part II)

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS 2007 (Part I)

· GUJARAT ELECTIONS AND AFTERMATH

 

2007

·              MULTI-RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY AND ITS CHALLENGES

·              SECULARISM AND ITS PROBLEMS IN INDIA

·              BJP ENTERS PORTAL OF POWER IN SOUTH

·              POLICING AND MINORITIES

· IDENTITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION-INCLUSION - A MUSLIM (Part II) PERSPECTIVE

·              IDENTITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION-INCLUSION – A MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE (Part I) –

        October 1-15, 2007

·              EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION –IS IT DESIRABLE? – September 16-30, 2007

·              TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN AT HYDERABAD – September 1-15, 2007

·              ATTACK ON TASLIMA- LOVE OF ISLAM OR LOVE OF POWER? – August 16-31, 2007

·              HASRAT MOHANI – A FORGOTTEN FREEDOM FIGHTER – August 1-15, 2007

·              TERRORISM AND EDUCATED YOUTH – July 16-30, 2007

·              KNIGHTHOOD FOR SALMAN RUSHDIE AND MUSLIMS – July 1-15, 2007

·              IS BJP REASSESSING THE MUSLIM FACTOR? – June 16-30, 2007

·              POLICE AND MINORITIES – June 1-15, 2007

·              U.P. ELECTIONS – A PROOF OF MATURE DEMOCRACY – May 16-31, 2007

·              THE MUSLIM ‘ULAMA AND STATUS OF WOMEN – May 1-15, 2007

·              BJP’S ANTI –MUSLIMISM – April 16-30,2007

·              FIRST WAR OF INDEPEDENCE IN 1857- ITS IMPACT ON HINDU-MUSLIM RELATIONS –

        April 1-15,  2007

·              MUSLIM WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY – March 16-31, 2007

·              FIVE YEARS OF GUJARAT CARNAGE – AN OVERVIEW – March 1-15, 2007

·              MAINSTREAMING MINORITIES – February 16-28-2007

· THE HINDU VIEW OF ISLAM - A CRITICAL REVIEW

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS 2006

· COMMUNAL RIOTS 2006

 

2006

·              REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIMS IN POLICE FORCE AND COMMUNAL RIOTS

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS - RESERVATION OR NO RESERVATION?

·              MALEGAON BLASTS - PARTISAN APPROACH AND BIASED POLICEY

·              WOMEN'S PLIGHT IN MUSLIM SOCIETY

·              FUTURE OF COMMUNAL RELATIONS IN INDIA

·              POLICE AND MINORITIES - WILL NEW POLICIES HELP?

·              AND NOW TERRORIST ATTACK IN MALEGAON - WHAT IS THE WAY OUT?

·              KASHMIRI YOUTH AND PROSPECTS OF PEACE

·              OUR INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER - A CRITICAL REVIEW

·              ISRAELI AGGRESSION AND THE WORLD

·              BOMB BLASTS IN MUMBAI - CROSSING THE LIMITS

·              SECULARISM IN INDIA - Part II

·              SECULARISM IN INDIA - Part I

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS – PROBLEMS AND PARADOXES

·              GUJARAT ON FIRE AGAIN

·              SUFISM – ITS ORIGIN AND IMPACT ON INDIAN ISLAM

·              IDENTITY IN A MULTI-RELIGIOUS SOCIETY

·              OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE - WHAT ROLE RELIGION CAN PLAY

·              MUSLIMS AND TERRORISM

·              THEY HATE US, WE FEAR THEM – THE SITUATION IN GUJARAT

·              DANISH CARTOONS AND MUSLIMS

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS - 2005 (Part II)

· COMMUNAL RIOTS - 2005

· BJP'S SILVER JUBILEE - AN ASSESSMENT

 

2005

·              IDENTITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN DEMOCRACY

·              THEY TOO FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM – ROLE OF MINORITIES IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE

·              COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND MINORITY-MAJORITY RELATIONS

·              NCERT'S NEW HISTORY SYLLABUS

·              ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY AND THE COURT JUDGEMENT

·              COMMUNAL POLITICS CLIMAX AND DOWNFALL

·              NATIONAL INTEGRATION COUNCIL - IS IT A USEFUL INSTITUTION?

·              FATWAS, THEIR ACCEPTABILITY AND THEIR RELEVANCE

·              ON THE CAUSES OF TERROR BOMBING

·              PREMCHAND AND COMPOSITE CULTURE

·              LONDON BOMBINGS, VIOLENCE AND ISLAM

·              JINNAH - HOW MUCH SECULAR, HOW MUCH COMMUNAL

·              ON THEORIES OF PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

·              VAJPAYEE AND THE GUJARAT CARNAGE

·              MODEL NIKAHNAMA - A HOPE OR A DISAPPOINTMENT?

·              INTER-FAITH RELATIONS IN MEDIEVAL INDIA

·              THE BJP'S TWENTY FIVE YEARS AND COMMUNALISATION OF INDIAN POLITY

·              CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY- A RELIGIOUS

        RESPONSE

·              THE MINORITY QUESTION IN INDIA

·              THREE YEARS AFTER GENOCIDE IN GUJARAT

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS AND PERSONAL LAW BOARD -

·              GODHRA TRAIN BURNING INCIDENT AND BANERJEE REPORT

·              TRIBAL-MUSLIM DIALOGUE

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS - 2004

 

2004

·              RELIGION, LAW AND SECULAR GOVERNANCE

·              RELIGION, RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND THE STATE

·              THE BJP AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM

·              RELIGION, IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY

·              DRAFTING THE LAW TO PREVENT COMMUNAL VIOLENCE

·              EDUCATION, SECULARISM AND HUMAN VALUES

·              CENSUS FIGURES AND BJP'S ANTI-MINORITYISM

·              BJP BACK ON AGGRESSIVE HINDUTVA TRACK

·              DALIT-MUSLIM DIALOGUE

·              ON RESERVATION FOR MUSLIMS – SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE

·              ON COMPREHENSIVE LAW ON COMMUNAL RIOTS

·              AFTER ABOLITION OF TRIPLE TALAQ – WHAT NEXT?

·              TRIPLE DIVORCE – NEED FOR CHANGE

·              NEW SECULAR GOVERNMENT AND ITS SECULAR TASKS

·              DEFEAT OF NDA, VICTORY OF SECULARISM

·              JUDICIARY AND COMMUNAL VIOLENCE

·              DILEMMAS OF DEMOCRACY

·              MUSLIM INTELLIGENTSIA AND LIBERALISM

·              MINORITIES AND LOKSABHA ELECTIONS

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS AND LOKSABHA ELECTIONS

·              INDIA SHINING, COMMUNAL DARKNESS

·              THE POLITICS OF ATTACK ON BHANDARKAR INSTITUTE

· GUJARAT CARNAGE AND MUSLIM WOMEN

·              HIJAB CONTROVERSY IN FRANCE

 

2003

 

·              STATE ELECTION RESULTS - VICTORY OF BJP OR COMMUNALISM

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS, IDENTITY AND MODERNITY

·              MUSLIM WOMEN AND MODERN SOCIETY

·              POLICE AND MINORITIES

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS AND SECULARISM

·              AYODHYA'S VOICE

·              BOMB BLAST, COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND SECULAR

        INDIA

·              ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AND TEMPLE

·              FUTURE OF SECULARISM IN INDIA

·              UNIFORM CIVIL CODE OR LEGAL PLURALISM

·              JUSTICE ABORTED IN GUJARAT

·              MUSLIM WOMEN ON THE MOVE

·              RELIGION AND COMMUNALISM

·              NO JUSTICE NANAVATI, WHAT YOU SAY IS NOT CORRECT

·              ON SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNALISM

·              INDIA UNDER BJP

·              MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND HURT PSYCHE

·              THE ROLE OF ULAMA IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE

·              IS SECULARISM DEAD IN INDIA?

·              ONE YEAR OF Gujarat'S SHAME

·              INDIAN MUSLIMS - MYTH AND REALITY

·              HINDUTVA AND MINORITIES

·              AMBEDKAR, MUSLIMS AND PARTITION

·              FUNDAMENTALISM AND TERRORISM

 

 

2002

 

·            THE BJP SWEEP IN GUJARAT- A MOMENT OF REFLECTION FOR INDIA

·             TRUTH ABOUT GUJARAT CARNAGE -CONCERNED CITIZENS' TRIBUNAL'S REPORT

       ON  GUJARAT

·              THE BJP AND GUJARAT ELECTIONS

·              RECENT RIOTS IN MAHARASHTRA

·              A NEW BEGINNING IN KASHMIR

·              CAN WE FIGHT TERRORISM?

·              ON ROOTS OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE

·              POLITICS, VALUE-ORIENTED, NOT POWER-ORIENTED

·              ROLE OF RELIGION IN SECULAR SOCIETY

·              NO ELECTION IN GUJARAT FOR NOW PLEASE

· BOMBAY HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT - A LANDMARK JUDGEMENT ON TALAQ

·              COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

·              ROLE OF POLICE IN GUAJRAT CARNAGE

·              GUJARAT CARNAGE - IMPLICATIONS FOR SECULARISM

·              MYTHS ABOUT MUSLIMS AND THE GUJARAT CARNAGE

·              ALL IS NOT LOST IN GUJARAT

·              GUJARAT - AN AREA OF DARKNESS

·              MINORITIES CANNOT BE AT THE MERCY OF RSS

·              BJP'S RIOT-FREE INDIA

·              DEFEAT OF BJP IS DEFEAT OF COMMUNALISM

· INDIAN MUSLIMS, FIFTY YEARS IN INDEPENDENT INDIA - AN EVALUATION

·              SANT YATRA OR ELECTION YATRA?

·              A NEW APPROACH FOR ISLAMIC WORLD NEEDED

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS - 2001

 

 

2001

 

·              IS CONFEDERATION IN SOUTH ASIA POSSIBLE?

· A BRIEF SURVEY OF COMMUNAL SITUATION IN THE POST BABRI-DEMOLITION

        PERIOD

·              MALEGAON RIOTS - A NEW ERA OF VIOLENCE?

·              PLURALITY OR POLARITY?

·              CLASH OF TERRORS?

·              ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTRE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

·              CAN VEIL BE ENFORCED?

·              INDONESIA - A COUNTRY IN TURMOIL

·              HINDUTVA, NATIONALISM AND VIOLENCE

·              MUSLIMS AND EDUCATION

·              INDO-PAK RELATIONS SOARING HIGH

·              PUNISHING GUILTY POLICE OFFICERS IN MUMBAI RIOTS

·              NDA'S DEFEAT IN RECENT ELECTIONS AND FUTURE STRATEGIES

·              MUSLIM WOMEN AND FAR REACHING CHANGES IN BANGLADESH

·              MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS AND ITS ROLE

·              KANPUR RIOTS - A WAKE UP CALL

·              THE RSS - AN EVALUATION FROM THE MINORITY PERSPECTIVE

· ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA- PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE - contd.

· ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA- PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE

·              KASHMIR OPTS FOR PEACE

·              SRIKRISHNA COMMISSION REPORT - WILL IT BE IMPLEMENTED?

·              VAJPAYEE'S STATEMENTS AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY

·              NATIONALISM, COMMUNALISM AND TWENTIETH CENTURY

·              COMMUNAL RIOTS - 2000

 

2000

 

·              SEPARATE MUSLIM PARTY NOT NEEDED

·              ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA - PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE

       

·              PAKISTAN, ITS POLITY AND VIABILITY

·              ISLAM AND SECULARISM

·              WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND PERSONAL LAW BOARD

·              WOMEN AND PERSONAL LAW IN IRAN

·              RELIGION AND POLITICS IN INDONESIA

·              THE POLITICS OF ARREST OF BAL THACKERAY

·              MUSLIM WOMEN'S MAINTENANCE - SOME NEW JUDGEMENTS

·              KASHMIR - CAN AUTONOMY BE A SOLUTION?

·              MUSLIMS, MODERNITY AND CHANGE

·              THE CONGRESS, SECULARISM AND MINORITIES

·              NATION STATE RELIGION AND IDENTITY

·              THE BJP AND ITS TWENTY YEARS

·              VIOLENCE IN KASHMIR AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

·              IRAN BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND ORTHODOXY

· THE PROBLEMATIQUE OF NATION-BUILDING IN SOUTH ASIA - THE CASE OF

         PAKISTAN

·              SOCIAL REFORMS AND POLITICAL ODDS

·              THREATS TO INDIAN CONSTITUTION?

·              THE BJP AND ITS ROOTS IN Gujarat

·              THE PAKISTANI TEXT BOOKS AND HATRED AGAINST INDIA

·              COMMUNALISM AND COMMUNAL VIOLENCE-1999

THE BOHRA HIGH PRIEST AND HIS HUNDRED YEARS

- By dr. asghar ali engineer.

These days more than a million Bohras worldwide are furiously engaged in celebrating (or being made to celebrate?) 100th birth day of their religious head Syedna Muhammad Burhanuddin who is 52nd Da’i’ (a religious head meaning summoner to the faith). He is 52nd da’i’ in the chain of Du’at (plural of da’i) which started in the Yemen with first da’i’ Zoeb bin Musa who died in 1151 A.D. However, when the political situation in the Yemen became difficult to live with the 23rd da’I Syedna Izzuddin nominated an Indian as his successor and 24th da’i’ known as Yusuf Najmuddin and ever since India has remained main centre of D’awah (mission). The Bohras belong to the Isma’ili Shi’i’ branch of Islam. Read full article

 

  

 

 

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