President Donald Trump claimed last week that the US and Britain had won World War II. This was a shameless lie and distortion of the facts. Many Americans and Canadians like to believe their nations won the war in Europe and give insufficient recognition to the decisive Soviet role. Most Europeans would rather not think...
I am noting with grave concern that since few years, a negative trend has emerged in country wherein all those people are threatened, harassed and slapped with unfounded charges. Their voice is being choked though for the positive and functional democracy, participation every section of society is necessary. The latest case is of Delhi Minority...
illions of people in France and Spain counted down to the relaxation of strict coronavirus lockdowns on Monday, hopes of release from their homes laced with fears of a second wave of a pandemic that has killed over 280,000 worldwide and wrought economic disaster. In France, people will be able to walk outside for the...
Yemen is one of the Arab world’s poorest country which has been battered by a devastating civil war over the last five years. Yemen internal unrest has its roots of 2011 Arab spring wave of popular uprising which ousted the decades long authoritative president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The so called Arab spring also known as...
Anthony Fauci is fast transforming from an independent doctor into a political football, with the latest proof of his metamorphosis being the White House’s refusal to let him testify before the Democrat-controlled House’s Appropriations Committee that’s investigating the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. Prior to that, the nation’s top infectious disease expert drew attention for...
“My mother has been asking me about detention centers,” my friend recently told me on the phone. “She has been very worried.” My first reaction was shame. She is Muslim and I am Hindu. That never meant anything to us when we first met, studied together and hung out in New York. When her mother...
All of us are trying to adjust to the unforeseen changes brought about by the onset of COVID-19. The transition to the virtual world has not been a cakewalk for everyone. Several people, particularly of my parents’ generation, are not technology friendly but are now having to adapt to talking with friends and family via...
What could be more insensitive act than this. The Delhi Police visited Delhi Minority Comission chairman Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan’s residence on Thursday evening. The police arrived at his residence at a time when Muslims break their fast. The police, according to media report, asked him to visit the police station. 72-year old Dr. Zafarul...
“To live like a TIGER for a day is far better than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.” – Tipu Sultan Today marks the 221th death anniversary of Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tipu, better known as Tipu Sultan the Muslim warrior-king of Mysore, who died fighting the British today, May 4th 1799....
Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan is the Chairman of Delhi Minority Commission. For a few days he has been a victim of severe attack from the Hindu communal forces as well as a section of media. They are targeting him for posting a tweet. The communal forces have alleged that he had threatened them of taking...