Oct
28
Double Half Eid
October 28, 2006 | 2 Comments
It was a shame that Muslims in India celebrated Eid in two days. Same thing has been happening in the past few years. This has to be fixed.
Rushdie SoldHis personal diary. For undisclosed amount. He is a clever businessman, without doubt.
Oct
21
Blog will be Inactive
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I am going home. So blog will be inactive starting today up until 5th November. See you then. Happy Eid and Happy Diwali to all.
Oct
20
A conversation with a beautiful lady in my campus. Seeing her I waved. She said:
Hi
Hi, how’re you?
Fine. You?
Same.
Didn’t go home for (Durga) puja?
Oh no, I will be going for Eid.
Oh I’m so sorry. I didn’t know you are…
Hey wait a minute. Why should you be sorry that I am a Muslim? Hmm. It’s […]
Oct
20
Imrana Verdict Out
October 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Imrana has finally got justice. I want, as I have said before, to see the clerics who gave the strange fatwa that she should marry her father-in-law must also be punished. A stronger demand has to come from within the Muslims.
Corus has accepted TATA bid. This is largest foreign takeover by an Indian company. I […]
Oct
19
Reservation given Green at SC
October 19, 2006 | 2 Comments
The Supreme Court of India has upheld reservation for the lower castes, provided they can prove that the lower caste is under-represented. the decision of the government to implement quota College and University students had vigorously protested against the proposed quota.
One third of the people covered in a survey support torture. Italy seems to […]
Oct
19
Media’s Muslim
October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The Indian media, by and large, is not as bad as it could be. Even though I shall mainly talk about their faults in this article, I don’t think they are all bad guys. This article is to show where they could and should be better.
ManipurLet me start with a Muslim-unrelated news. Manipur is […]
Oct
18
Reconversion and Hindu Right
October 18, 2006 | 4 Comments
The Viswa Hindu Parishad has purified (shuddikriya) 336 tribal converts to Christianity in front of a huge crowd. Days after thousands of dalits converted to Christianity and Buddhism
It comes after reports that a christian youth has been abducted and abused by a mob of VHP. The catholics have expressed convern over the activity of extremists […]
Oct
18
Pak Peace Talks resume
October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Deja vu? Guess another episode of ‘meri (badmash) padosan‘ (My bad neighbor) has begun. Peace talks are being talked about. The talks has not begun, mind it. They’re saying It will begin from December.
After no talks from July (after the bombings), finally a little light.
Nursery InterviewDelhi High court has banned the city’s private nurseries […]
Oct
18
Fine Tuning
October 18, 2006 | 3 Comments
I had been fine tuning my october posts. Some more references and a few more facts have been added. In ‘conversion menace‘ a video I saw on YouTube (by the way YouTube is now baught by Google) is added. ‘Mumbai blast case solved‘ has a lot more references now. And a few changes here and […]
Oct
17
Mosque blast in Kerala
October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I found on a rather unknown website of the Indian Express group that one person is hurt as a country bomb goes off on a mosque premises. Malegaon and Mumbai is still fresh in memory. The news reports:
According to the injured person, he had come to the mosque to do the morning namaz at around […]