Hindustan Times
Salman Khurshid, the law minister, was until recently a good Muslim to have in government. [Read more]
About Zia Haq
Zia Haq, as a five-year-old, refused to take Arabic lessons from a maulvi hired by his mother because the alphabet book wasn’t colourful enough. He revisited the Quran only as an adult, just after 9/11 to be precise, to find out if his faith was inherently violent. The ‘need to know’ soon grew into a ‘need to tell’ — that Islam needs to be understood not feared. Haq, assistant editor with the Hindustan Times, reports on minority affairs but likes to believe he’s destined for bigger things, like taking the phobia out of Islamophobia.
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Loading ...Every other day, biscuit-maker Abdul Hannan takes groups of curious Muslims on a tour of Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society as if it were another mausoleum. [Read more]
(51 votes, average: 1.84 out of 5) Loading ...Many Indians still feel that we should not relent on Pakistan, use our diplomatic and economic clout to make it pay a nasty price for the Mumbai attacks. Maybe we can. Pakistan lacks the money without which wars can neither be fought nor won and has few international backers for a conflict against India today. [Read more]
(19 votes, average: 2.79 out of 5) Loading ...My singular mission during an extensive trip to Pakistan was to get under the skin of the people I met, know what they thought about India and the current raft of India-Pak bonhomie. [Read more]
(18 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5) Loading ...More and more urban Indians are switching from pop-and-mom kirana outlets to do their groceries at swanky large-format retail stores. [Read more]
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