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Abida Parveen
I do not perform for people. I perform for Him. In that moment, it is Maula who connects me to the audience and to myself. Woh zaat nazar naheen aati magar karti sub kuch wohi hai. Whose eyes and hands are actually at work? Banda aur Khuda — they are never apart. My prayer is […]
Ambiguities of Pakistan
‘ Go to Pakistan’ in India means ‘Go to hell.’ When a BJP leader Giriraj Singh exhorted the voters either to back Narendra Modi in the ongoing election or to go to Pakistan, nobody was really shocked. First, it’s BJP’s exhortation, despite the party’s recent attempt to bury the hatchet of chauvinism in its drive […]
JINNAH: THE ELUSIVE TRAGIC HERO
Qaed-e-A’zam Muhammad Ali Jinnah who learned the alphabet of politics at the feet of Dadabhai Naroji and was gently initiated to the altar of Indian politics by a giant political seer Gopala Krishna Gokhale was admirably sung as the “Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity” by Sarojini Naidu, the nightingale of India.But, later he was treated […]
PAKISTAN : A STATE OF BORROWED IDEAS
HERE is a cliche : Pakistan was created as an Islamic state, as a separate home for Muslims of the Indian sub-continent, as an expression of their desire to establish an Islamic society. The Pakistan Movement was inspired by the “Ideology of Islam”, India was partitioned and millions sacrificed their lives, honour and millions sacrificed […]
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 […]
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 First Muslim : The Story of Muhammad
If he weren’t standing lonely vigil on the mountain, you might say that there was no sign of anything unusual about him. The earliest sources describe him with infuriating vagueness for those of us who need images. “He was neither tall nor short,” they say. “Neither dark nor fair.” “Neither thin nor stout.” But here […]
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