An Alig's Armchair

The following piece appeared in the New Indian Express on the said date. Our remarks are in black against the original article in blu...

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are the three giants of western philosophy. Whole of the western world view sort of sits on these three nam...

To decide how Aligarh Movement can be effective we have to first ascertain why we are ineffective. Ineffective we are but we might differ...

I want to fume at west. Many will say that I do that often. I agree. The point is that no one else is taking up the task with yours trul...

According to the Telegraph : Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area n...

What do you do when you run out of ideas? Well, congratulate yourself. You are ready to pay attention to purpose of life. And the purpo...

There is a couplet by Dr Nawaz Deobandi: Uska Kitna Bojh Utara, Dar Par Aakar Sa-il Ne Aur Sakhi Ye Soch Raha Hai, Sa-il Par Ahsan Kiya ...

There were the post Babri Masjid demolition riots of 1992 that spilled over to the early 2013. Then there was Gujrat 2002. Now we have ...

From YouTube : "Rumi and Hafez have been the guiding light, Rumi especially, of American poetry for the last five or ten years. Bu...

Several years ago yours truly got interested in Amir Khusro. That is a big name in the history of letters in India. A man who used severa...

The Hyderabad state in South India was merged with India in the so called  1948 Hyderabad police action. Even this piece of information i...

Imam Ghazali (RA) and Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (RA) are two big names in the cultural, theological, intellectual and spiritual history of ...

(1) Sunni Forum was down for weeks. (2) It is now up. (3) Its character is drastically changed. (4) So far it has been a discussion f...

Iqbal Ashar is a an Urdu poet from Delhi. Urdu is a weakness of yours truly. So is Delhi. And when a combination of them one can imagin...

Pain of America is world's pain. That is what Americans think. And gives it away? How did yours truly conclude it? Yours truly stu...

Nausiating British have been displaying this strange behaviour recently - the royal baby obsession. It is the same country that is hand i...

Amartya Sen said about Narendra Modi: I think I would like a more secular person to be prime minister. I would not like a prime minist...

Anthony flew was an atheist since his early teen years. By now he believes that there must be an original cause for the existence of the ...

Malala Yusufzai addressed the UN on her 16th birthday. No small achievement. Like Malala Yusufzai yours truly too is in education market...

Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is aspiring to be the Prime Minister of India in coming elections in 2014. He is the man associated wi...