IFFK to commence on December 6th
The eighteenth International Film Festival of Kerala is scheduled to be held from December 6 to 13 at Trivandrum and will showcase 208 films in various sections. The festival is organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of Cultural Affairs Department, Government of Kerala. List of the films in the competition, Indian cinema […]
Hindi and Bengali among top 10 most common languages in the world
The British Council released The Languages for the Future report in London recognizing the top ten languages Britain needs to learn on priority. Two Indian languages Hindi and Bengali found their place in the report released on Wednesday with Hindi acquiring the position of the fourth and Bengali the seventh most common languages spoken around […]
Jamia Millia Islamia to stage a play on communal harmony
The drama club of Jamia Millia Islamia “JOSH” is organizing a play that deals with children and their rights in the society tarnished with social evils. The play has been designed and directed by Dr. Danish Iqbal, Coordinator, AJK-Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. The play is in Hindi, titled “Hum Ek Hain” and […]
Nobel-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies at 94
ovelist Doris Lessing, the Nobel-prize winning author of ‘’The Golden Notebook’’ and ‘‘The Grass is Singing’’ died at her home in London on Sunday at the age of 94, her publisher HarperCollins said. “Doris Lessing was one of the great writers of our age. She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a […]
William Weaver dies at 90
One of the greatest translators of Italian literature, William Weaver, died on Tuesday. He was ninety years old. His death was announced by Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., where Weaver taught in the 1990s. He suffered a stroke several years ago and had been in poor health since then. His […]
English Readers’ Roads to the Quran
One of the major arguments of all times is that we have not, nor ever, exhausted interpretation. The Quran should show light for all times and for all spaces. However, there are questionable assumptions and preconceptions which our selective and, rather, outmoded reading of the Quran made happen. Somehow, classical interpretations of the Quran became […]
Housing apartheid against Muslims rampant in India
With the already existing intolerance towards the Muslim minorities, yet another incident confirming the discrimination came to the fore when popular property website 99acres.com published an advertisement seeking applications for rent in a Mumbai flat. The ad was uploaded by broker Vishal D’Souza on October 27 and it read, “Excellent brand new 2BHK fully furnished […]
Islamophobia on the rise in Quebec
Islamophobia has intensified in the Canadian province of Quebec since the introduction of the proposed Charter of Quebec Values. The charter will ban all public workers from wearing visible religious symbols such as the hijab, kippa, turbans and larger-than-average sized crucifixes in the workplace. This has led to an alarming rise in verbal and even […]
Brazil Calls for “Democratic and Transparent” Internet
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, in an international conference in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, spoke about the ways to govern a safer and a less U.S controlled internet. The two-day NET Mundial gathering attended by Government officials, industry executives and academics from eighty five countries was convened to discuss the internet issues and reach an agreement […]
Islamic Economic Summit: Does it Hold out a Different Promise?
Economic summits are both remarkable and notorious. Remarkable in the sense that they are usually convened in the context (or aftermath) of several financial breakdowns and that economic think-tanks are expected to contribute tips on how to save economies from ever colliding with the icebergs of slump. Notorious in the sense that not only is […]
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