Tag: Indian Muslims
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Rushdie’s assailant: “My name is legion for we are many”
Salman Rushdie was dead right when he described the banning of the Satanic Verses in India nine days after its publication in London as “political football”.
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Communal riots In Delhi: “Bhaiyya, are all of you safe?”
It is heart breaking to receive messages of concern from friends and relatives overseas whenever Hindu-Muslim riots break out. Most painful by far is the query from relatives in Pakistan: “Bhaiyya, are…
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Portrait of a Muslim home in shadow of rising BJP colossus
The only role at this juncture for Indian Muslims in India’s electoral politics is to enable Hindu consolidation. This may not occur to the Muslim voter but this is the consequence of…
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Like Palestinians, Muslims of Muzaffarnagar forego their right to return, on oath
The government of Akhilesh Yadav in UP has asked the battered Muslims of Muzaffarnagar to sign an affidavit: “Myself and members of my family who have left our village and our homes…
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Congress and the BJP, tweedledum and tweedledee
The Muslim has many issues with the Congress. What has become of him in the 60 years of Congress rule, he was able to see in the mirror of the Sachar Committee…