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Communal Riots and Jamshedpur

Communal Riots and Jamshedpur By Kashif ul Huda April 2009 marked the 30th anniversary of the horrific communal violence in Jamshedpur, an episode that changed the city forever. An analysis of the events that led to the riots of 1964 and then 1979 by a resident of Jamshedpur at that time. View Full Article : http://www.epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/13538.pdf Published: Economic & Political Weekly VOL 44 No. 21 May 23 - May 29, 2009

Hudood

Hudood is an Islamic terminology that is referred to punishment that is fixed by Allah. Four types of crimes are covered by "hudood"- 1. theft 2. character assassination of a woman 3. drinking alcohol and 4. fornication. [Maariful Quran: vol. 6 : pages 341-342] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful (Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed. (1) The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment. (2)" Surah An-Noor: verses 1 & 2 The idea of hundred lashes is not to kill them or inflict severe wounds but to embarrass them so that they don't commit the same mistake again. A party should witness so that others can learn from it. Elsewhere in Quran, there is a requireme

India 2009

Came back home this Monday after a whirlwind three-week tour of India. I visited Delhi, Mumbai, Kerala, Chennai, Lucknow, and Bihar. (see map below) Annotated and un-annoated photos are here: Flickr : India 2009 View India 2009 in a larger map