A Black Friday in Bombay: Film Review
A critical appraisal of Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday (2007) in the aftermath of Yaqoob Memon’s execution for his alleged involvement in the Bombay blasts, which the film purports to narrate. An adaptation of the book by author/journalist S. Hussain Zaidi, Black Friday, released in 2007 took three years to see the light of day. It […]
The Bloody Cost of Placating Collective Conscience
Yaqoob Memon, days after uncertainty over whether he would (should) be executed or not, was hanged in Nagpur Prison in today morning. For a few days, a petition signed by activists, lawyers, politicians, writers, filmmakers etc. requiring the President to show mercy for Memon, has clogged the limelight. A curative petition filed by Memon, which […]
Book Review of Living Islam. Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier
Author: Magnus Marsden United Kingdom Cambridge University Press, New York, United States of America Date Published 2005 First Edition What does it mean to be a Muslim in Pakistan? The question is of much significance given that Islam is the founding basis of the nation. And yet, it is surprisingly under-studied,as it is not an […]
Adieu to an Ignited Mind
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was a versatile personality. He was the 11th President of India; an outstanding space scientist- having had an illustrious career at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) giving his signature to both India’s civilian space and military missile development programs; an orator and a […]
The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies
This is a transcribed speech of Talal Asad delivered at the American University of Beirut as part of an international symposium in honor of Talal Asad held by Arts and humanities initiative at the University. Tonight I will take up the concept of tradition and explore it in a more straightforward and elaborated manner. I […]
An iftar at Delhi Juma Masjid
This Ramadan is drawing to a close. Interactive Assistant editor Navas Machingal captures some rare moments of the month in the capital city of India, while he was wandering there with nothing but a camera and notepad. interactive editorislaminteractive.info
Islam as a Culture of Knowledge
Interview with Angelika Ne In this interview with Anna Alvi and Alia Hübsch, Prof. Angelika Neuwirth says that the claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age old cliché, and that it is pride in the Enlightenment that continues to lead people to believe that Western Culture is superior to Islam Prof. Neuwirth, […]
Jamaludheen Afghani and Decolonial Horizon
There is an avid interest in recent times in excavating in the multi-faceted career of Jamaluddin Afghani those factors which could help turn the tables on the colonizing power centres. Pankaj Mishra, a writer committed to the cause of decolonization in the era of globalization, notes in his well-documented From the Ruins of an Empire, […]
How to Transgender Islam
Joseph Massad, professor of Arab politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, is a towering post-colonial theorist and political scientist. Wide-ranging though his academic interests are, his writings primarily focus, just as those of his teacher Edward Said do, on the aggressive colonial politics of Israel and the western liberal nation states. At the theoretical […]
Journalist Praful Bidwai Is No More
Prominent journalist and political commentator Praful Bidwai died on Sunday, June 21, in Amsterdam, where he was a fellow at the Transnational Institute. He was 65 years old. “Our dear friend Praful died unexpectedly in Amsterdam last night, 21 June. We are in shock,” read the note next to Bidwai’s bio in the international advocacy […]
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