Author Archive: Infoeditor
Mandela and Islam in South Africa
Lots of Muslim friends accompanied Mandela in his long walk to freedom. Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, Ismail meer, Yusuf Dadoo, Fatima Meer, Amina Cachaliya, Rahima Moosa, Ibrahim Rasool, Imam Hassan Solomon are some of them, the last two holding high official posts later. Imam Abdullah Haroon embraced martyrdom in the dungeon of Apartheid in 1969; Ibrahim […]
Venir … unirse a la fiesta!!
I took a sip of my coffee and gazed out of the windowpane at the white, warm and welcoming clouds that resembled soft cotton swirls. The drink was rejuvenating and stimulating, and I felt good. I had long waited for this journey to meet my best friend at one of my favorite destinations. I was […]
New Year Promises
The year 2013 has just gone by and while I am writing this, there are fireworks colorfully greeting the year 2014. To look back, we have had many things to be pessimistic about the next year. The yawning gap between the rich and poor; a bleeding Middle East and the Zionist hubris; no end to […]
A Lesson in Democratic Ethics and Pluralism
National struggles against colonialism enriched Afro-Asian nations with some leading figures, who set an excellent democratic model. Until Nelson Mandela’s departure, we had had the last remaining personality among them. Nelson Mandela is remembered the world over not just as an emancipator, but for having unified a society divided by apartheid. A society which has […]
Reflections of a Quran Translator
The following is a transcription of the speech the author delivered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, for Launch Conference for the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) which is dedicated to the study of the reception and understanding of Arabic and Islamic culture, science and religion in […]
Mandela’s Gandhi: The Meaning of Violence in Resistance
One of the important similarities between Gandhi and Mandela was nothing but the milieu which made them. Though Gandhi focused his attention to the Indians who lived in South Africa, he has witnessed racism there so much as to make it a reference point in his political activism in India. About it, Mandela later acknowledged […]
Limits of Translations
For the vast majority of people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the Qur’an is only accessible in translation. But translations have been a source of controversy throughout Muslim history. The need and desire for translations arose as soon as Islam spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula, where the growing number of new converts to the faith did […]
Three Indians in race for DSC prize for South Asian Literature 2014
Three Indians have been shortlisted for the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian Literature 2014. Benyamin for Goat Days (translated from the Malayalam), Anand for The Book of Destruction (translated from the Malayalam) and Cyrus Mistry for Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer are the Indian entries competing with two Pakistani and a Sri Lankan entry […]
Iranian President and ministers embrace Social media
Amidst the much hyped over ban on the social networking sites in Iran, the Iranian ministers including the president Hassan Rouhani have embraced social media. Many more cabinet ministers are becoming active online encouraging others to join the sites like face book and twitter. The people of Iran breathed a sigh of relief hoping that […]
Kairostami: The Japanese Proof for Kurasowa
Abbas Kairostami’s Like Someone in Love is the first film in Japanese by an Iranian filmmaker. I don’t know whether it is the first Japanese film by any foreign filmmakers. I hope comments to this post will enlighten us on the topic. Also, if the sobriquet does not embarrass you, LSL is the first film […]
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