Official records, quoting the legend of conversion, say that Yousuf Shamsuddin-al Tabrezi, popularly known as Thabreyzgefanu, brought Islam to the Maldives in 1153. President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, with his
Nanded, in Maharashtra, is a town with a significant population of different faiths – Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist. Nanded could well have become a new metaphor for secularism as practised
Some 35 years ago, a youth seeking the roots of his own intellectual culture undertook a pilgrimage to Lumbini, or the ancient Rumindai mentioned in the Asokan edicts. He journeyed
Standing Alone in Mecca:
A pilgrimage into the heart of Islam
by Asra Q Nomani
Harper Collins, 2007
Asra Q Nomani's Standing Alone in Mecca is at once
Globalisation – the universal codeword for the latest stage in the uneven development of capitalism at the planetary scale – points neither to a 'global village' nor to a '
India's Politics:
A view from the backbench
by Bimal Jalan
Penguin/Viking, 2007
William Fulbright's notion of expressing differences in a democracy as a matter of
