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Asiaweek
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Down Memory Lane
Work of oral history; collection of essays with special reference to Indian politics since independence.
Ghaffar Khan
Born into the Muhammadzai tribe, from the Charsadda valley in the Pakhtun heartland, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a passionate believer in the nonviolent core of Islam and sought to wean his people-the fierce warrior Pakhtuns or Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province-from their violent traditions and fight for a separate Pakhtun homeland that would no longer be a buffer between Russia and Britain in the Great Game. In 1929 came Mahatma Gandhi's call for nonviolent resistance against British rule and Badshah Khan responded by raising the Khudai Khidmatgars (Servants of God), an army of 1,00,000 men who pledged themselves to the service of mankind and nonviolence as a creed. For this, and ...
Biblio
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"Islam" Means Peace
This decisive account of the role of nonviolence in Islam and Muslim societies, both historically and in current times, chronicles an often-obscured but longstanding pacifist tradition. "Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today provides a rebuttal to general misperceptions about the religion by documenting its rich tradition of nonviolence. To that end, the book examines the sources of Islam—the Qur'an, the main religious text of Islam, and the Hadith, the deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. It contests the prevalent notion that Islam is built on violence in part by illuminating the role of the tolerant, mystical tradition of Sufism in Islam, while...
Risky Success
During my third cruise over the shimmering blue waters of the Mediterranean, sipping a Jaipur gin and tonic, listening to the mesmerising, husky-voiced Bonnie Tyler, I started jotting down unconnected incidents that came to mind. I was recollecting moments and not a chronological array of events.
Eve's Weekly
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New Delhi
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A Dream Come True
Sucess story of Indian Konkan Railways.
