Author Archive: Infoeditor
‘A politician, not a Mahatma; an episode, not an epoch-maker’
A Transcript of Ambedkar’s comments on Gandhi in an Interview with the BBC in 1955. I met him first in 1929 through the intervention of a common friend of ours, who asked Gandhi to see me. Gandhi wrote to me, saying he would like to see me. I went and saw him. That was just […]
Gandhi and Indian Muslims: Overlaps and Conflicts
This is an excrept from Roland E Miller’s article gleaned from Indian Critiques of Mahathma Gandhi, Edited by Harold Coward, Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2003 State University of New York What did Indian Muslims think of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? When Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1891–1989), the stern Pathan leader who […]
To Reach You Move; To Transform Travel
Film Review: The Way (2010), Directed by Emilio Estevez, 121 minutes, English. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters in comparison with what it […]
The fate of Jews at Banu Qurayza
Below is the transcrption of the speech by Sheikh Sayed Ammar Nakshawani about the story of the alleged massacre of Jews from Banu Qurayza There are many events in the life of prophet Muhammed, which we may find it difficult to digest in the context of pluralism. The alleged massacre of Jews of Banu Quraiza […]
Diverse Ways of a Freelance Monotheist
“I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.” – Karen Armstrong When one thinks of Prophet Muhammad and pluralism, one can be academical- sorting out samples from the life of The Prophet, analysing them one by […]
A Refuge of Diversity
Ever since Islam rose up against religious persecution in other faiths and became refuge for the oppressed, it has been a targeted creed for despotic as well as fanatic religions, which opposed the very idea of egalitarianism. For them, the idea of Islam was intolerable as it would ruin their power in the following years. […]
The Medina Charter
Drafted, according to Montgomery Watt, in 622 C.E.shortly after the hijra, The Medina Charter, aslo called the Constitution of Madina, was amended at a later date specifically after the battle of Badr (AH [anno hijra] 2, = AD 624). It constituted a formal agreement between Prophet Muhammad and all of the significant tribes and families of […]
Digital Reincarnation for Dunhuang’s Buddhist Art
Inching their cameras along a rail inside the chamber, specialists use powerful flashes to light up paintings of female Buddhist spirits drawn more than 1,400 years ago. One click after another illuminates colourful scenes of hunters, Buddhas, flying deities, Bodhisattvas and caravanserais painted on the walls of the Mogao caves in northwest China, considered the […]
Let Chill Brave Mr Sun
It seems as if Mr. Sun is blazing with rage devouring all the available moisture from the face of the earth. Such is the temperature nowadays with every inch of our body getting dehydrated draining us of all the energy and vigor. Less vitality and less appetite continue to turn us off making the summer […]
Biennale’s Spiritual Solace
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 […]
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