Chennai Mosque

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor said today that he condemned the "malicious distortion" of his words on a Ram temple at the site of the razed Babri mosque in Ayodhya. Speaking at a literature festival in Chennai on the weekend, Mr Tharoor had said that "no good Hindu would want a Ram Temple built by demolishing somebody else's place of wors...

For over a year, Mohammed Ashraf visited a mosque in Chennai hoping to make it to the Indian Administrative Services. Not to pray, but to attend coaching classes.

The Makkah Masjid on Chennai's busy Anna Salai road is like any other mosque as you approach it. But enter and walk up the stairs and you find 40 young men listening to a lecture or thumbing through reference books.

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor said today that he condemned the "malicious distortion" of his words on a Ram temple at the site of the razed Babri mosque in Ayodhya. Speaking at a literature festival in Chennai on the weekend, Mr Tharoor had said that "no good Hindu would want a Ram Temple built by demolishing somebody else's place of wors...

For over a year, Mohammed Ashraf visited a mosque in Chennai hoping to make it to the Indian Administrative Services. Not to pray, but to attend coaching classes.

The Makkah Masjid on Chennai's busy Anna Salai road is like any other mosque as you approach it. But enter and walk up the stairs and you find 40 young men listening to a lecture or thumbing through reference books.