Veteran journalist, columnist and author of “Being the Other: The Muslim in India” Saeed Naqvi talks about ‘Being other’, Muslims as a cultural entity, Asaduddin Owaisi, and Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb in a conversation with Fasiullah SM in Hyderabad. Below is a brief transcript of the conversation. Being Other The feeling is a retrospective effect. I felt […]
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Hyderabad: In a rare display of unity, Muslim leaders representing various sects, schools of thoughts, organisations and political parties, joined hands to express their opposition to Uniform Civil Code. “Uniform Civil Code is not acceptable under any circumstances. We will not tolerate any kind of intrusion in the Muslim Personal Law and we will do […]
Today the truth is that most Hindus in India are communal, and so are most Muslims. Why is that so? There are two main reasons for the lack of growth of genuine secularism among the masses in India: 1. Secularism is mainly a product of industrialization, and because industrialization in India has been weak and […]
Tomorrow, 1st July 2016, is the last Friday (called Jumu’atulvida ) of the Muslim Holy month of Ramzan. My appeal to all non Muslims everywhere is to keep roza tomorrow as a mark of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters. Since several years I have been myself keeping one day roza during Ramzan, and […]