Its that time of the year again. As the annual month of dawn-to-dusk fasting begins, people everywhere are girding their social media loins to fight the inevitable lexical war thats about to break out: Ramzan or Ramadan? This contentious battle is being fought over the name of the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, which […]
Over the last few years, Pakistani soaps have found popularity across the border for, among other things, having a finite episode limit and letting characters go to bed and wake up without tonnes of makeup. Its also the place where Fawad Khan, who some might call Pakistans best import, found his footing before he arrived […]
Parents are the only people who stand by us throughout our life. They love us and nurture us. They equip us with knowledge and shape us into who we become. They make endless sacrifices for us. Sadly, as we grow up, we get caught up with the numerous engagements of life, and forget to appreciate […]
On April 21, 23-year-old Hilal Ahmad Ganai, of Barpora, Pulwama, was hit by pellets in his chest, head and face after police fired air guns towards the youth protesting against the vandalisation of the local graveyard. He was brought to Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar where doctors said his right eye had lost […]
IN Cameron Strachers 2011 novel The Water Wars, Vera and her brother Will struggle to survive in a country that has collapsed from an environmental cataclysm. The authorities hoard water, dam rivers, and even exploit clouds as glaciers vanish and polar ice caps melt. In their bid to find their lost friend, both the characters […]
Nobody knows what to make of them, this army of people who rose up in the heart of a populous city and turned on state forces. Elsewhere in the jungles of Chhattisgarh, the chowks of the Kashmir Valley or the hills of Manipur they would have been called terrorists, militants, insurgents, leftwing extremists. […]
I recently spent a few days in Malaysia, where I was promoting the publication of the Malay edition of my book, Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty. The publisher, a progressive Muslim organization called the Islamic Renaissance Front, had set up several talks for me in Kuala Lumpur. As any author would be, […]
The blessed month of Ramazan is here. Once again we will fast from dawn to dusk, once again we will seek our Lords forgiveness and once again we will hope for his blessings. Much has changed since my childhood. We have a completely different way of living now, very different from how our grandparents or even […]
ISTANBUL THE Islamic holy month of Ramazan begins today and with it the long hours of fasting by hundreds of millions of Muslims. The daylong fast during the lunar month in which we Muslims believe that the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is […]
The descriptor icon is vastly overused in these celebrity-fixated times, but it could have been invented for Muhammad Ali, who has died aged 74. Thirty-five years after he threw his last punch in the ring, Ali is still front of mind in any discussion of the most-important sportsman ever. He does not occupy this status […]
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