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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, passes away at 87
(Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico City. Garcia Marquez died on Thursday. (AP photo by Eduardo...
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Shaping the mind of the believer
A fatwa is a decree, a ruling. The mufti who is authorised to issue fatwas has to have encyclopaedic knowledge – for he will be required to pronounce on matters that range from personal hygiene, to...
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Her eyes distract, so banish them!
The Muslim clergy issues fatwas for two primary reasons: First, to impose their interpretation of shariah; and, second, to maintain their stranglehold over the community of believers lest they break...
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When tradition offers a way out of modern societal problems
What if, in trying to figure out the best way to lead our lives, we could conduct tests on the different methods? According to author Jared Diamond, such trials are already taking place. In his new...
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LK Advani reviews Khushwantnama
Last month I received a copy of Khushwantnama: The Lessons of my life. I completed the 188-page book by Khushwant Singh almost in a single sitting. And the first thing I felt like doing after reading...
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Sanjeev Sanyal charts our civilisational consciousness through history
History writers often fall into the trap of writing voluminous accounts of events, usually centred on changes in political dispensation (wars, ascensions, coups et al), occasionally sprinkling them...
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Privacy from government monitoring is a right
Excerpted below is the introduction to Cory Doctorow’s young adult science fiction novel Little Brother. It is being reproduced here under the terms of the Creative Commons...
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Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing dies at 94
In this January 30, 2008 file photo, Nobel literature laureate, Doris Lessing holds up the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature medal after being presented it by the Ambassador of Sweden, Staffan Carlsson,...
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Is there really a ‘Great Indian story’?
India has always been an example to the world in many ways. The spread of Bollywood allure to the most isolated regions, Indian curry in acclaimed restaurants around the world and Indian engineers...
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