हिन्दुधर्मः ३ – इस्लामीयदीन् इत्यस्य अनुसन्धानम्
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Sarvadharma Samabhava of the Abrahamics
We Indians are told by our English-speaking intellectual, political and media elite that after May 2014 our country descended into intolerance. This intolerance is bruited both within our own country and in the More...
Fifty Different Tellings of the Quran
In the recent cacophony on ‘intolerance,’ many left-wing writers, journalists and intellectuals routinely mentioned the A K Ramanujan article ‘Three hundred Ramayanas’. To them, its removal from the Delhi More...
Revisiting a Classic—The Calcutta Quran Petition: Book Review
Background The average educated person today, anywhere in the world, is likely to be both confused and frightened by Islam. On the one hand, it is supposed to be a religion of peace that preaches equality and justice More...
Good Start but Loses Steam — Heretic: Book Review
Summary That Islam needs a reformation, and urgently, is not in debate. The unfolding tragedy of the civil war Syria, where an estimated forty per cent of its population (yes, two of every five people) has been More...
Bitter Truths, Difficult Questions
Morgan Freeman’s character in Now You See Me (2013) tells Mark Ruffalo’s character, “When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere More...
Examining the Quran
This is the second part of the IndiaFacts series analysing the Quran through a Dharmic perspective. Continuing from the introductory essay in this series, we can now begin to examine the key verses of the Quran. Bismi More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...
The Myth of Islamic Science
In this provocative essay, Waseem Altaf, the author argues that the notion of a golden age of Islamic learning is a myth created to counter the current sorry state of intellectual life in the Islamic world. Introduced More...
Court Ruling: Some Ayats in the Quran cause Communal Riots
The reasons for the fast-rising communal tension in India and abroad was elaborately explained in the judicial verdict pronounced by Z.S. Lohat, Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi on 31 July 1986, in a case More...