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Number of words: 829 The Muslims constitute about 12 percent of our population. On every index of development – income, education, health, share in government services, share in private enterprise, role in self employment, membership in legislatures – the level of their achievement is substantially below their share of the population. The only index on … Read more

Number of words: 691 It is the overwhelming showing of the Muslim League in 1946 that constitutes the basis of the  joint Muslim League Sangh Parivar thesis that the Muslims of India brought about the Partition. But let us look at the facts a little  more closely. The british Indian province in which the Muslims … Read more

Number of words: 146 Communal politics in sind, as elsewhere in the subcontinent, came into play only after the collapse of the non-cooperation movement in 1921-22 Mahatma Gandhi had launched the movement in 1919, with the restoration of the Islamic Khilafat of the major objective to bring Muslim on to the bandwagon of the all-India … Read more

Number of words: 292 The origins of our secularism lie in the encounter between the Aryans and the Dravidians at the commencement of our recorded history as a civilization. It is well illustrated in the contrast between the treatment meted out to Eklavya at the expressed later in the same epic over Siva teaching the … Read more

Number of words: 229 If however, the Indian experience was unique for Islam so was the encounter with islam unique for Hinduism, other religions had been assimilated or marginalized; Islam alone could neither be swallowed whole nor be swept into a corner. The Hindus were shaken out of their insular mould and faced a phenomenon … Read more

Number of words: 779 There was a no further Islamicincursion from outsideover the next 285 years. But Islam spread through the gentle Sufi seints, which gave Islam in Sind its defenetive eclectic stamp. It was not till AD 997-nearly three centuries after Quassim – that Subutgin forced his passage through the Khyber Pass. This opened … Read more

Number of words: 57 “Peter Lynch, the legendary and highly successful manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund for many years, once remarked that he calculated that more than half of the investors in his fund lost money. This happened because money would pour in after a couple of good quarters and exit after a couple … Read more

Number of words: 2,162 I have a simple philosophy in life I’ve learned from people much smarter than me. That is, watch the people you don’t want to be like, and do the opposite of what they do. I’m not trying to be a dick, but I have more than enough examples to last a … Read more

Number of words: 2,130 Harish Chandra Verma wasn’t an excellent student at school. Studies didn’t interest him as he struggled to pass all his subjects. For the Darbhanga native, whose family had endured hard times, adapting to an education system in Bihar that emphasised rote learning, was difficult. His father, who ran a school up … Read more