Tormenting Minorities Amounts To Defying the Shankaracharya Order

https://m.thewire.in/article/religion/syncretism-adi-shankara-teachings The WIRE Everyone should read the Op-Ed piece above. It is balm for the troubled soul. It is always good indeed to hear calming words spread by apostles of peace (peace be upon them, wherever and whoever they are!) … such as this “veteran journalist” writing in THE WIRE who attempts to be one.Continue reading “Tormenting Minorities Amounts To Defying the Shankaracharya Order”

“Turning down the volume of loudspeaker calls for Azaan” — the Muslim prayers. The HINDU Op-Ed today!

From: sudarshan madabushi <mksudarshan2002@yahoo.co.in>Date: 9 May 2022 at 9:58:55 AM GMT+5:30To: ziya.salam@thehindu.co.inSubject: Turning down the volume of loudspeaker calls for Azaan Dear Ziya Salam, Assalaam aalaikkum! I read with great interest your lead Op-Ed in today’s THe HINDU below . https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/turning-down-the-volume-on-a-call-to-prayer/article65394508.ece/amp/ THE HINDU dt May 9 2022 I am a Hindu by faith and conviction. Continue reading ““Turning down the volume of loudspeaker calls for Azaan” — the Muslim prayers. The HINDU Op-Ed today!”

The harmony of natural urge and ethical aspiration: Islamic “misyar” marriage

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/marriage-without-strings-saudi-arabia-confronts-rise-of-misyar Straits Times 4 July 2021 I had shared the above news link via email with a few of my friends abroad one of whom is a lady citizen of Germany of Turkish origin. After having read the article on “misyar” “no-strings attached” so-called Islamic “marriage arrangements” that now reportedly are rife even in orthodoxContinue reading “The harmony of natural urge and ethical aspiration: Islamic “misyar” marriage”