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Yes, India needs MF Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain, popularly known as M. F. Husain, or simply Husain, is now living abroad. He lives in a land far away from his motherland - India. He is currently based in Dubai. He has been living there after his self-imposed exile. Hes revered by many as a painter - an artist extraordinaire. Millions are spent by people to buy his masterpiece and the kind of publicity and support he enjoys with the Indian elite is truly enviable. ...
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Demystifying the Sufis
Perceptions are not history - they can never be. It is perceived in India, by many, that Sufis are living testimonies of secular face of Islam. and that they have played a pivotal role in shaping the secular fabric of this land. The facts, however, suggest otherwise. Folks Founder & Editor-in-chief U. Mahesh Prabhu Writes more.History testifies the fact that most of the Sufi saints came to India either accompanying the invading armies of Islamic marauders or just followed them in their sweeping ...
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Tablianization of Mangalore?
Tablianization of Mangalore is how they began describing a truly petty issue. The Congressmen and Communists wasted no time to hurl their criticism and abuses on the state government. It was a mad-mad run for settling political scores and it was chaos all around.Amidst all, none, neither the media nor the politicos were interested in resolving the dispute. And a meagre incident was blown completely out of proportion. Who was at fault? If the media is to be believed it ought to be Sri Ram Sena me...
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For the love of kith and kin
It is hard to determine the extent to which parents today can go towards promoting their kids, to make them famous. This is truer in case of the parents in the urban areas. Having hailed from modest background with little or no scope to harness their skills and develop their talents with their financial prowess they want to ensure that the opportunities are made available to their children. There is nothing wrong with this mentality. Its indeed commendable to ensure that you make provision for y...
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A lesson in life - at large
Life has always taken so many absurd twists and turns that I have stopped keeping its counts. Shifting over five professions, namely software programmer, web designing, marketer, writer, editor and now publisher cum administrator, I have come to but one conclusion: If you are capable, if you can believe in you. opportunities knock on your doors.Its not easy to quit a job, for many. I have quit over forty times! You think I am lying? No-way! Its completely true. I have only quit, never was once t...
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Saddening case of the Indian Bureaucracy
In India there is no dearth of columnists arrogating to be experts in polity, governance and administration. But the very mirthful fact, that which I realized of late, is how less of notions do we actually have versus the bureaucracy from these columnists. And most of the articles on them are absolutely rabble rousing - that which hardly makes any sense.When Indias first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was asked as to where in administering this country was he a failure, his answer was Administr...
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Recession: Time for Ergodic Cerebration
It is baffling to learn about Ramalingam Raju. A person who, just a year ago, was called a renowned, distinguished entrepreneur and an international business leader, is today behind bars for financial misappropriation in the company which he himself had built from scratch-Satyam. If the media informants are to be trusted, he had been keeping up the defalcation for the past decade! Wasnt it during this time that he was honoured with awards and accolades of both national and international standing...
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Emulation of Fallacies
In India, since time immemorial, we have been in pursuit of a society which is laudable as far as principles, ethics, and rationale go. Our pursuits have not [just] been towards creating a financially affluent society. We have been rather immensely zealous in working towards a civilization where all and sundry would live in peace, dignity, and with honor.Yes, it is very much possible that we, especially a large section of the youth, can begin a self-defeating argument against evil practices once...
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An [hour] with a Prostitute!
By: U. Mahesh PrabhuJan-01-2009Authors Home PageViews expressed here are authors own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom.(Author is Editor-In-Chief of upcoming apolitical and illustrated family magazine FOLKS and Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London (UK)) Feedback to authorIt took me a lot of time to decide whether or not to write about this incident in my life. As a guy who has been born and brought up in a relatively conservative and God-fe...
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Song of the Soul: Happiness
Staying happy, for everyone, is imperative. But what makes one happy? And having once attained that happiness how is one to sustain it? Since time immemorial, our civilizations have been in pursuit of happiness. All the religions and social systems discovered or invented were intended to make us happy. But, regrettably, even after conquering the moon and deploying satellites on other planetary bodies in our solar system, we are yet to attain that incessant happiness in our daily lives.Since ever...
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Being Anti-Muslim
Because, for past few months, I have been inditing columns critical of Islam with purports from Holy Koran and Hadith, I am being branded as anti-Muslim. You [hate] Islam many have already declared. But hate is such a strong word. Its opposite to love and thus, when you hate you just end up perverting. I have time and again advocated that Seed of hatred begets nothing but destruction. I have never abused Islam nor have I, eer, used derogatory words against Muslims. How can I speak fetid against ...
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Obama"s tryst with Islam
If you think Obamas full name is Barack Obama then you are half right. His middle name, which is hardly flashed in the media, is Hussein. Thus his complete name is Barack Hussein Obama.Now the question that would certainly follow is: Does he, or not, have a Muslim background? When the very same question was asked to him sometimes back his answer was If I was a Muslim, I would let you know. and I believed in him. Obama is today a practicing Christian and also a member of the Trinity Church of Chr...
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Justifying terrorists, Muslims always wrong
Muslims today are being looked upon with strange skepticism. And conditions are certainly getting worse for even those Muslims who are nowhere near the ideas of the fundamentalists. Without doubt, the situation is absolutely frustrating for Muslims. But how can we ever free the Muslims from the clutches of such suspicion? How do we enable them to lead a normal life, in India at least? Are Muslims and non-Muslims doing their share to restore this dignity? These are some of the fundamental questio...
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Anti-Brahmanism: Case Study to Muslims
The Great Uprising of 1857 unnerved the British, though for a while. Within two or three years of quelling it, and with great ferocity, they set to work putting together a version of the incident that would suit their ends. The uprising was confined to just a few pockets, they said, adding, it erupted as a result of local misunderstandings, and that there was no national sentiment behind it for the leaders themselves fought only for their feudal privileges-one because her son was not being recog...
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Understanding and Reviving Muslim Psyche
Orthodoxy and fanaticism is found in every religious group, not just Islam. But in Hindu and Christian societies, there emerged a class of reformers who rejected such dogmas outright. There was, of course, a reason for this. Their religions were subjected to assaults and molestation as both had to face Islamic aggression. The defeat they suffered, stimulated these societies to reform themselves. Muslim society is unfortunate in this regard. It has never been subjected to the traumatic experience...
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