Inquilab
1857 to Sacchar Report-Nothing has changed for Indian Muslims: Leaving behind the
dark memories of the renewed terror and trauma for the Muslims in
India...
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Will
Indo-Pak peace bring peace to
beleaguered Indian
Muslims?While
the secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan has commenced...Read
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‘Advising
Restraint, work for the Revival of the Community’:We should advise the Indian
Muslims for observing total restraint so that the Anti-Muslim forces
...Read
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Ummid Special
on Terrorism
The Hidden
Face
of the
Terrorism Exposed At last:A nation under the siege, innocent lives
are at stake and the basic structure of the country in itself is at risk.
Are we doing enough to combat the terrorism? With the investigations into
Malegaon blast advancing rapidly, the hitherto hidden face of the terror
is finally being exposed to the world and the assertion that the terrorism
is a baby of only a particular community, in limelight after every act of
terror, is now be....Full
Story
Voiceover
Fascism
and Terrorism: Two Sides of
the same coin: “It seems that the fascist forces with a clear
anti-Muslim agenda have infiltrated the security forces. Since the
Indian...
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Our terror, their
terror:
Shortly before LK Advani spoke at
the HT Summit on Friday, I was chatting to Ajit
Doval. Though he is not yet a household name, Doval is a former
director of the Intelligence...Read Full
Malegaon, a town in
India with more than 70% Muslim population has always been
considered as a communally sensitive place. However, there is a
place in Malegaon where a Mosque and a Mandir exist side by side
with Muslims and Hindus, both living there in peace since last many
years. Same is the case with the whole town. Except for the...Full
Story
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In
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Politics in Himachal Pradesh veers
largely around regional faultlines that thread through the old and
merged areas of the mountainous state. Caste
has never been a factor in the elections here, and with only four
seats to account for in the 543-member Lok Sabha, Himachal has
remained a marginal player in the numbers game on the national
stage.
The old areas comprise the hilly terrains which were part of
Himachal prior to 1971, the year it was created, while the merged
stretches include those incorporated into the state after the
trifurcation of Punjab.
Traditionally, the former has been pro-Congress,
and the latter pro-BJP. In fact, BJP and Congress leaders keep
accusing each other of dividing the state along regional lines.
Whenever Congress has come to power, BJP has accused it of diverting
all development projects to old areas — primarily Sirmaur, Solan,
Shimla, Kinnaur, and Lahaul Spiti. The charge has remained the same
with change of guard: BJP leaders face allegations of attending to
the merged areas comprising Una, Kangra, Hamirpur Bilaspur, and
parts of Kullu.
For instance, the Congress regime announced support price for
apples, a fruit grown primarily in the old areas, and denying the
same benefit to fruit-growers elsewhere in HP. The allowance was
rescinded when BJP’s Shanta Kumar formed the government in 1990.
The move set off a tidal wave of agitation in the apple belt and
things reached a stage where
police
had to fire on demonstrators to quell the tumult in an otherwise
peaceful land. Electoral trends have remained largely unchanged. In
assembly elections, people have generally voted for the party in
power at the Centre, and vice versa in Lok Sabha polls.
Most observers attribute this to the Himachal's dependence on the
Centre for funds. The cash-starved state acutely needs aid to pay
its large work force. One occasion when voters bucked the marked
drift was in 1977, when Janata Party wave swept the country
post-emergency.
This time, with BJP in power, political analysts are giving the
saffron party three seats to Congress’s one. The lone seat for
Congress is Shimla, the party’s pocket borough since 1952, when it
was called Mahasu. It has thrown up surprises only twice: when Balak
Ram Verma won during the ‘77 Janata wave, and Dhani Ram Shandil of
Himachal Vikas Congress (HVC) beat his opponent backed by NDA at the
Centre and BJP-HVC alliance in the state in ‘99. Shandil remains a
strong contender still, only he is now in Congress.
In 1905 more than 100 years from today, when
Iqbal
was a lecturer at the Government College, Lahore he was invited by his
student Lala
Hardayal to
preside over a function. Instead of making a speech, Iqbal sang
Sare Jahan Se AcchaHindustan Hamara in his style. Iqbal
compiled this poem in praise of India and the poem preaches the
communal harmony that had unfortunately started ceasing in India by
that time. Each and every word in this poem depicts an Indian’s
respect and love for the motherland and the values the Indian society
inherited for long...Read Full
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Inquilab
1857 to Sacchar Report-Nothing has changed for Indian Muslims:
Will
Indo-Pak peace bring peace to 
‘Advising
Restraint, work for the Revival of the Community’:
Fascism
and Terrorism: Two Sides of
the same coin: “It seems that the fascist forces with a clear
anti-Muslim agenda have infiltrated the security forces. Since the
Indian... 
Malegaon, a town in
India with more than 70% Muslim population has always been
considered as a communally sensitive place. However, there is a
place in Malegaon where a Mosque and a Mandir exist side by side
with Muslims and Hindus, both living there in peace since last many
years. Same is the case with the whole town. Except for the...
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