Kalpna in Raipur by Stephen Gill is an engaging and thought-provoking short fiction about love between a woman professor from India and an Indian Diaspora in Canada. One believes in love and another in the theory of detachment. The result of these two views is the base of the 8th chapter under the

Before we proceed into the subject matter, let’s have a look at these two nefarious instances of ruthless killing of Sufi ideologues and Ulema at the hands of extremist goons:
(1) Mufti Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi (May God be please with him) was a Sufi-minded Pakistani Islamic cleric noted for his modera

Islam is the religion of nature. It is also the answer to man’s inner quest. It aims at establishing the right relationship between the Creator and His creatures and at maintaining this relationship on a firm basis.
An important aspect of this relationship between the Creator and human beings rela

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) issued a directive on Christians to abide by Islamic concepts of dhimmitude or face death. Of course, Christians under the Syrian government and leadership of President Bashar al-Assad are free to worship freely, join the armed forces and participate t

In northeast Nigeria the barbaric Islamist Boko Haram slaughtered many teenage boys based on their lust for killing. Currently it is known that 29 teenage boys were brutally murdered by Boko Haram but some sources state that 42 individuals perished in the latest attack by this Islamist terrorist org

Nearly 25% of people with diabetes face diabetic foot related complications in their lifetime. “People with diabetes can develop many different foot problems. Even ordinary problems can get worse and lead to serious complications. Foot problems most often happen when there is nerve damage, also call

Recent interventions by America, France and the United Kingdom equates to Christian persecution and enormous instability. This reality would appear to be a constant Western policy because the same scenario keeps on happening. Of course, in terms of numbers then Muslims have been killed in vast numbe

One of the biggest problems that independent India was beset with was that following the Partition, social interaction between Hindus and Muslims, something that had carried on for centuries before, was suddenly almost completely snapped. This made it virtually impossible for members of these two co

The leader of the Pakistan Movement, Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, appeared to be a secular person. But he spearheaded the Pakistan movement by using Islam as a slogan. In 1946, just prior to the Partition, a 10-member delegation from the British Parliament visited India. A member of this delegation, Mr.

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is one of the most powerful individuals within the entire Middle East despite his power base being firmly entrenched in the Levant. Indeed, the continuing evolution of Hezbollah under Nasrallah highlights the firm reality that this political move

"Life is always a good. This is an intuition or rather, a fact of experience, whose deepest reason (man) is called to understand it" (John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 25-III-1995).
We usually say that life is a gift from God, something that we have neither requested nor deserved and God with his be

Targeting religious minorities in Pakistan will remain a sore spot in the Asia. Pakistan, 96 percent Muslim is one of the most hostile nations for religious minorities. All religious minorities in Pakistan, not just Christians face discriminatory laws, forced conversions, and bombs and shootings aim

My father, the late Fariduddin Khan, was a large landlord. He passed away in 1929. He was very popular, not just among the local Muslims, but also among Hindus, so much so that people would come to him to have their disputes resolved. Both parties would accept his verdict without any argument. In ou

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) was an Indian physicist who specialized in mathematical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics. One of his stories from student life has a great lesson for us. While doing M.Sc. at the Calcutta’s Presidency College, he once performed so well in a

My name is Sapru. I am having 45 years of age. I was born and brought up in Kerala State in India. I was an ethist and became a strong communist. Though I was born in a nominal christian family, but I never believed in Jesus or christian religion. And slowly I became an addict of alcohol. I was a ca