Yesterday, i.e. 30th October 2009 I was witness to the launch function of India’s first ever magazine on legal and corporate affairs, “LEX WITNESS” in Bangalore. The function was presided over by Dr. Justice V S Malimath, Chairman of Law…
At a time when modernization of police force and changes in police behavior towards common people have been discussed all over the world; Assam police officers and constables have been seen following old barbarous approach of treating accused …
“The Queen of Carthage”. That is the title of a new French book on the powerful Tunisian First Lady Leila Ben Ali and her Trabelsi clan. Banned in Tunisian, the First Lady unsuccessfully sued to ban it in France.
Ben Ali’s second wife, she was his…
“India even has a separate ministry for animals. Why should the men be left out then?” said S Venugopal, convener of Save India Family Foundation (SIFF), Andhra Pradesh chapter, the body that facilitated the launch of AIMWA (All India Men Welfare.
Bullet-proof vehicles have been approved for use by Baluchistan Assembly members who are being threatened with attempts on their lives. The approval was given by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday October 30, 2009, during a meeting with a…
My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at that.
In some ways, our trip followed familiar patterns: visiting family and…
“I was beaten up by the doctor. Often my head was banged against the wall, like it happened three days ago. I was beaten up at night and woke up only to find my eye swollen”- This are the words of Renu a 11 year old girl who was working as a maid…
[Author’s Note: This story was sparked by a prior one I wrote, so forgive me for the borrowing of the introduction].
Recent years have a renaissance in Islamic architecture. Muslims in Muslim nations and those planting roots in the West are…
The first Mosque was built by the first community of Muslims (umma) in Medina el-Nabi (City of the Prophet) near the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Every Muslim contributed contributed their part the Mosque functioned as a community center…
You read it right, it was the body of a 22 year old man Chukkan Nishad, who was possibly murdered which had to suffer this indignity. And where at the roof of a police station.
Worse, this atrocity took place in a police station in Azamgarh,..
