Poetry as Socio-proctology

As an Anglophone novelist myself, I was somewhat chagrined by a recent editorial in this Journal which speculated ' on  why Anglophon...

This is Muhammad Ali Jinnah, speaking in 1946 to an American Missionary, on why Muslims can't live with Hindus As a matter of fact, ...

   Indian Independence Day, I have recently come to learn, is celebrated in the West as VJ Day.   Manmohan (aka Man Mouse) Singh has depar...

In Islam, statements are of two sorts- insha, that is imperative or deontic, and khabar, that is factual. Normative use of the hadith litera...

This is a link to Rajan Parrikar's page on Pandit Maniram - surely one of the greatest singers of the Twentieth Century. The shadjam w...

“ In the image of the hierarchy of the worlds contained in the kawn al-kabir, every world or every degree of human individuality is presi...

The Symposium is a mirage of Wine's Loneliness As is the Academy that of the Symposium To whose Shekinah is wholly Holiness Sa...