By Shahid Habib
The lack of record keeping among Muslim organizations needs a thorough investigation and analysis, as to why Muslim leaders are so negligent in undertaking this basic task.
Asides
By Sanghamitra Bhumana
Make no mistake, when women march
They bend the arc of History,
Make no mistake, it’s Herstory too!
By Muzafar Ahmad Dar & Inamul Haq
What India needs is a national commitment to achieve what Maulana Azad had started as the first education minister of independent India.
By Mithilesh Kumar
It can even be said that it is only when these belligerents – pathogens and governments – engage in a “war” that pandemics are created.
By Sriti Ganguly
A bird in a bowing posture at sunset amused me and made me wonder whether it was in a contemplative mode or merely looking down at its feet to check if it is time for a pedicure.
By Gracy Samjetsabam
They send out a message that the future may be vague but man is determined to stay positive, adapt and adopt, which would bear fruit only if we respond and act in the spirit of “metanoia” and “togetherness”.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
Liberty, what’s this
it looks like a crown of thorns
do you bleed inside
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Of trying times and reaching out – of
Life going awry, yet holding on –
A different time, a quarantine.
By Masidur Rahaman
My process of transformation, a religious Muslim to an ardent atheist, started with a book called “Why I am an Atheist” by Bhagat Singh.
By Kashif Islam
The challenge today is to make representative bodies, especially national governments, more responsive to the genuine needs of the citizens as opposed to the interests of the economic and political elites.
By Sharif Atiquzzaman
After the polls, you can’t catch hold of their shadow. Now they promise the Earth. They are political fraud.
By Tikuli
searching for a home
all I wanted
were two arms
to hold me in love
By Sutputra Radheye
You also call her a slut
if she has slept with you
and even when she hasn’t.
By Navras J. Aafreedi
When he built our modest dwelling, he got the name of each labourer who worked during its construction inscribed in golden letters on a black granite stone expressing our gratitude to them.
By Sadaf Bano
Far from being mindless man-eaters, Richardson believes lions have a gentle side that few know about. Their ability to show love may hypnotize anyone for its sheer captivation.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
This Road of Mine is a rollicking read from start to finish and the translator has served the author well – though I’m unhappy with a few phrases such as ‘blow your mind’ and ‘on a high’ which are completely out of register.
By Gopal Lahiri
Utpal Chakraborty’s Kirigami validates a distinctive voice as well as a convincing and captivating command of tone, texture, style and technique. It’s a fine debut collection by a promising poet and a joy to read.
By Rajesh Subramanian
The Tamil Sangam poetry is an invaluable treasure from an eco literary perspective. Rediscovery and re-exploration of the Sangam literature is likely to lead to glimpses of a great civilization that lived one with nature – in letter and spirit.
By Ritamvara Bhattacharya
This is the only hope, stolen marks of each other we carry.
Vignettes that only the street lamp stands as a vigil.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 