Author Archive: Infoeditor
Magazines: Where the ‘Muslimah’ Speaks
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 […]
A Recipe at Hand
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 […]
A Political Myth-Making
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. Ben […]
Asghar Ali Engineer: An Incomplete Story
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 […]
How Muhammad Matters
Biographies of Prophets are written not just for passive reading. Edification is one of the intentions of early writers of Sira. All authors of Muhammad’s biography have explored/explore how the life of the last Prophet of God matter to them, their society and culture. So have/do the the encomiums being sung as part of mawlid […]
Dynamics of Information Ecology
One of the most startling insights of our times is that communication is environment and that cultural change closely follows the march of information technology. Parvez Manzoor examines recent socio-philosophic thought that probes the dialectics of media communication and cultural environment. I am in the position of Louis Pasteur telling doctors that the greatest […]
The Plight of Refugees
Being afflicted by poverty and political unrest, thousands of people the world over are forced to leave their home lands in search of a better life. It is reported that there are now more refugees than at any time since 1994. And many people reported to have failed to reach their final destinations. Italy’s Lampedusa […]
Art Gallery opened in Kochi
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation KC Venugopal told the media that the Government has planned for building up art galleries at Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram airports. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the art gallery at Nedumbassery airport, a first in the state. “If Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi requests, we will consider opening […]
Religious Right and the Human Rights: The Case of VIBGYOR
The media, endlessly hunting for scoops, apparently missed or rather deliberately averted a recent episode of dissonance involving the Sangh Parivar and a Kashmiri documentary featuring the plights of the 1991 Kupwara rape victims. For the corporate-controlled media, the subject either lacked adequate sensationalism to grab enough audience or posed a threat to its identity […]
Malaysia Widens Search for the Missing Jet Towards India
Amidst the huge search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the authorities have expanded their search westward toward India on Thursday citing that it could have flown for several hours after it lost contact with the ground. The Boeing 777 with more than two hundred people on board went missing over the skies […]
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