Scores of amateur videos recorded on smartphones were uploaded on Facebook where cries of panic-stricken Hindu women, girls and children in Bangladesh were heard. Cricket star and former captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza of the Bangladesh team posted a touching reaction on his Facebook account, rueing the mayhem and carnage carried out against the Hindu community […]
(Extract from the books “Minhaj-ul-Arifin” (English) and “Sufi Saints of Kashmir Sufi Orders in Kashmir” compiled by Sayid Ashraf Shah) The real founder of Naqshbandi order was Shaikh Abul Hasan Khirqani ‘RA’ (d. 1033 AD), but it was the twelfth saint of this order, by whose extraordinary knowledge and practice, besides vast service, this order […]
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if intellectual creativity is largely confined to Western intellectual circles. It is premature to suggest that the Academy has finally decided to break away […]
The recent assassination of Rohingya leader Mohammad Mohibullah in broad daylight has raised new issues of security, safety and violence in the squalid refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, in southeast Bangladesh. Several sources point their finger towards the Islamic militant outfit Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) active in the region and have taken shelter in […]
Extract from the book Qasida Butdah (ode to the scarf) comprising of ten chapters, authored by Hazrat Sharf-ud-Din Al-Busairi (RA) of Egypt 609-694 AH. The reason for writing this poem The writer Hazrat Imaam Saalih Shara-Fud-Deen Abu Abduliah Muhammad Bin Hasan Al-Busairi (RA) had become paralysed. His doctors and physicians gave up all hope of […]
Introduction Application of urea sprays in apple has become a common practice throughout Kashmir valley among apple growers. Since apple isn’t only a livelihood source for growers, it also offers a decent and competitive living even with land holding as small as one acre of orchard, provided growers are able to produce quality apples. There […]
Nikaah ceremonies of different couples were going on in other rooms of a marriage hall. The building was built to hold social gatherings for many people.I watched everything from behind the door as I was waiting for one of my relatives’ Nikaah ceremony to start. I could see no one in an average T-shirt and […]
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries in recent years have resulted in one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes, arguably unseen since […]
History shows that megaprojects may become landmarks for a country by bringing transformational impact on the lives of long-deprived people. Infrastructure-megaprojects are material drivers for accelerating the economic growth of developing countries especially while in transition to developed countries. As Bangladesh is on the highway to be graduated from LDCs, this leads the country to […]
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, a change that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially the youth, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into tangibly diminishing Israel’s stronghold over the US Congress, it promises to be […]