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In The Name Of Allah

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I n the midst of mourning in the subcontinent and inexplicable silence of the Arab world following the Peshawar attack where 132 children were butchered by terrorists came Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s justification for the massacre that is likely to lead to impressionable minds among Muslims seeing religious reason in violence and those among Hindus seeing Islam as an evil faith. Official statement from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan after the Peshawar massacre The message in Urdu above (in white on black background) issued by the terrorist outfit reads: “ T ā lib ā n ke tarjum ā n Muhammad Khur ā s ā ni: k ā kahn ā hai ke muj ā hidi:n ko hid ā y ā t di: gai: th ĩ: ke woh sirf baRe bachch õ k ā qit ā l karẽː. Pesh ā war ki: k ā rw ā i: sunnat-e-nabvi: kay a’in mut ā biq hai ky õ ke Nabi: kari:m ne bhi: Banu Qurayzah ke qit ā l kay waqt yahi: shart-e-mub ā rak ā’ id ki thi: ke sirf un bachch õ ko qatl kiy ā j ā e jin ke zer n ā f b ā l dikh ā i den ā shuru: h

Why Bharat Doesn't Revolt Against India

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H is rationale is sound. And he has a way with words — he borrows the term “Californication” from the American comedy by that name to summarise Amartya Sen and Jen Drèze’s description of a liberalising India as “islands of California in a sea of sub-Saharan Africa” — which is remarkable, given that he went to-and-fro between electronic and print mediums of journalism, a transition the venerable Mark Tully famously did not find smooth. Hindol Sengupta in  Recasting India  depicts a country whose citizens have perhaps made more sense of freedom in the last two decades than what its politicians could muster. A member of the upwardly mobile middle class would be tempted to own it as his or her published title. Binding:  Paperback Publisher:  Palgrave Author:  Hindol Sengupta Released:  2014 Beginning with Dwarakanath Tagore, Gurudev Rabindranath’s grandfather who had interests in coal, tea, jute, sugar refining, newspapers and shipping, the author speaks of the rut th