Category: Islamic Rule in India

Revisiting Ram Janmabhoomi – Part I

For the past several months, I have been thinking of digging up some old articles from this blog on the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi issue. Then, this not-so-widely-reported news from last week finally forced me...

A handful of gAzIs and lessons from History

Excerpts from a superb post by Sarvesh Tiwari on how a handful of “gAzIs” paralysed a medieval city: …That band of gAzI-s was not unlike this one, with only dozen and half mujAhidIn riding...

Links and extracts for weekend reading

Irfan Husain on how the intelligentsia in Pakistan�is blissfully unaware (or indifferent) to the threat from Taliban Saurav Basu on Amir Khusro and the myth of composite culture and Kapil Sibal on�how the ‘NDA...

“End the Moral Idiocy on Kashmir” – excerpts

From the original post by Dr Andrew Bostom, “End the Moral Idiocy on Kashmir”   *** EXCERPTS BEGIN *** I participated in a forum on Kashmir last night at MIT in Boston, as this Muslim...