Why Only Indian Muslims Have To Act Stupid?
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Society, World | 4 Comments »So, there is this push in Saudi Arabia to do away with the stone-age rule of women not being allowed to drive on their own. BBC News presents four viewpoints from a cross-section of Saudi society. Three of them present ...
WTF Moment Of The Week: Urinification
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in India, Society, WTF Moment | No Comments »WTF indeed. Teachers of a primary school in Bhandara district of Maharshtra sprinkled cow's urine in the school premises and on students They did this because the previous headmistress was a Dalit and they wanted to purify the school and the children ...
Burqa+Bikini=Burqini
Friday, March 9th, 2007 Posted in Society, World | No Comments »NY Times has this interesting article. Ms. Laalaa is a Muslim and has voluntarily worn the burqa, the traditional head-to-toe covering for Muslim women, since she was 14. It is hard to swim, she said, if your body is swathed ...
Remebering Gujarat Week At IndianMuslims.in
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 Posted in India, Society | 3 Comments »Another blog I am associated with recently commemorated the fifth anniversary of the Gujarat violence of 2002. Here are the links of the posts that were written on the issue: Open Thread: Gujarat Violence, Five Years Later The Destruction of Our Share ...
Kashmir: Perspective Of A Soldier
Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in India, Pakistan, Society, Terrorism | No Comments »BBC News has this article written by a young Indian soldier stationed in Kashmir where he talks about a system that has gone horribly wrong. A must read. And then something like this happens, and there are villagers and more villagers ...
A Colorful Holi For Everyone
Sunday, March 4th, 2007 Posted in India, Society | No Comments »Eye Bank Association of India has in the past produced great campaigns featuring Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachhan and Zakir Hussain. I saw their latest campaign based on Holi and was truly inspired. A subtle but effective way to get your ...
Honest Cabbie
Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in Society, USA | No Comments »Picture this scenario: On realizing that she has lost her bag of diamonds worth $500,000, an agitated woman called NYPD (New York Police Department) to inform them about the same. She thinks that the bag was most probably left in the ...
