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Blog | Women-Led Businesses To Social Events, The Surprise That Is New Saudi
The Saudi Arabia with strict gender segregation, tough Islamic laws, and dress codes, no longer exists. The country's women are now truly in the drivers seat.
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Blog: Baba's Bulldozer Has Come Home To Roost
Belief in rule of law and due process is the only way to put the brakes on this obscenity. Belief that governance is best done by the book, not by bulldozer.
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Blog: At Qatar, This Winner Was Not Even Playing
The football carnival has ended in Qatar. Messi's Argentina is the FIFA 2022 champion, but the real winner at the biggest sporting show on earth is a country that wasn't even playing. Palestine.
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Blog: What BJP Is Trying To Tell The Muslims Of Gujarat
They say time heals all wounds. But in the state of Gujarat, election time rips open the wounds of 2002 and leaves them freshly bleeding.
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Blog: AAP, The Millennial That Only Knows Vote-Bank Politics
How far this paperback version of Hindutva takes AAP against the BJP's hardcore Hindutva is to be seen. But it is quite clear that Kejriwal has taken the majoritarian route to votes.
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Blog: Mohan Bhagwat-Muslim Meet Is Good Symbolism, Not Dialogue
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's meeting with a group of Muslim intellectuals last month and the visit to a Delhi madrasa on Thursday have created headlines.
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Blog: Muslims Must Stop Reacting To Insults To The Prophet
The Prophet survived Dante's Inferno. But can he survive this assault by Riyaz Akhtari and Gos Mohammad?
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Blog: We, The Pained People Of India
If pain is personal and individual, which is so often the case, it can drag us down a solitary hole. But when it becomes shared and collective, pain can lift us out, extracting us from solitude into the company of those who are suffering as well.
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Blog: The Lynch Mob Now Goes for Naseeruddin Shah - Predictably
The kind of hate that is being directed at Naseeruddin Shah over his voicing genuine concerns is sickening. The same happened with Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan when they spoke up against intolerance.
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Blog: What 'Mulk' Means To Me As An Indian Muslim
'Mulk' takes up the issue of terror - the proverbial albatross tied to Muslims' neck with this convenient narrative: "all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims".
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Blog: Painting Muslims As "Jinnah-Lovers" In Election Season
A portrait of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah at the Students Union Hall of the AMU is at the centre of a raging nationwide debate. The portrait of Jinnah at the centre of the row has been there for 80 years. It was installed after Jinnah was accorded the lifetime membership of the AMU Students Union in 1938.
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Blog: Modi Government's Triple Talaq Law Is Deeply Flawed
"White men saving brown women from brown men" wrote feminist scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her seminal work "Can The Subaltern Speak?" What Spivak wrote in context of the larger colonial narrative, can be tweaked to reflect what's going on with the issue of Triple Talaq in India. It's a case of "Hindu men are saving Muslim women from Muslim men."
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Blog: No, The 'M' In Aligarh Muslim University Is Not A Problem
Did changing Elphinstone Station to Prabha Devi avert the tragedy there? The UGC needs to get real.
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Blog: When Modi Asked BJP Leaders To Stay Silent, He Left This Out
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week advised BJP motormouths "to practice the art of silence." It was fair and much-needed advice from his high office as many in his party are prone to putting their (right) foot into mouth very often. But the PM only sent out half a message.
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Blog: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Scene-Stealer, Thrusts Shah Rukh Aside
I see SRK almost struggling to make his presence felt on the screen in scenes with Nawazuddin, who owns every mm of it without even trying.
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Blog: An Open Letter To Women From A Man
Men have a lot of excuses and explanations for what they do to you. Every stare at a public place, every slimy touch in a public transport, every snide remark that men make. Get one thing right, men have a reason for it. And when we can't come up with a good enough reason, and mind you that's very rare, we just pass it off as a joke. Yes, you heard it right. Violating...
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Blog: Response To Una Attack So Different From Dadri
When did we last see such bloodshed in the name of protecting cows? Can the BJP now tame the beast?
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Blog: Owaisi Surprised Many With His Remarks, Zakir Naik Hasn't
Asaduddin Owaisi has made a good beginning last week, but will he stay course?
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Blog: Ban Triple Talaq, Declare Muslim Personal Law Board Illegal
The government and the Supreme Court must weigh in on the side of the Muslim women. The Muslims Personal Law Board must be shown it place.
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Blog: Open Letter To Asaduddin Owaisi On 'Bharat Mata' Controversy
Muslims have a serious leadership crisis today. But I am sorry to say, Mr Owaisi you are not the answer.
