An Indian Muslim. My first blogging experience was at (the old) Reflections.
Projects
Apart from this blog, I also contribute at
1. IJTEMA, which is a venture to bring out the best of Muslim blog-o-sphere.
2. INDIAN MUSLIMS, which is to bring out the Muslim voice in India.
3. TALK ISLAM, A blogger’s forum..
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Blogroll
I am very paranoid about my blogroll. I add to my blogroll only after a number of visits. I don’t care whether they agree with me or not, but I care whether they are interesting and reasonable. If you have ever left a comment on my blog, I have visited your blog for sure. Please don’t ask me here to add your blog to my blogroll. My reply may hurt you. Public rejections hurt more than private ones. Please email me with such a request, if you so will.
Header Image: Taken from Ali Majdfar’s Throughout Iran Album. The Album can be viewed as a SlideShow here.
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Thanks for visiting my blog. Equally glad to have found this space in the blogosphere..
Great going..keep it up!
RR
JazakAllah khair RR, for the hau(n)sla afzaai…
Thanks for visiting my blog and the gentle reminder. Glad to stumble on a blogger like you. Hmm….wonder where are you from?
Thanks for the kind words, friend.
I am from India. That doesn’t say much. India is so huge. So I am from bengal. West Bengal. A state to the East of India.
He is currently a research student trying to make sense of things.
I always forget to ask you, which area of research?
Wait a minute.
I thought Sharique and Manas are childhood friends.
Sharique
We researchers are jealous about revealing what we are working on.
That is secret!
gess
We would be, if you count us as childs.
How did you guess that gess?
Manas
India is a beautiful country….very rich in history….Aryans, Asoka, Ghandi…..I learnt about them during secondary school very long time ago. Taj Mahal and Kashmir…….places I long to go….I had seen Kashmir in the Hindi movie Fanar….very beautiful…..those mountains. I never been to India and hope it will be my next holiday destination.
Where are you from, 2jay?
I am a Singaporean residing in the State of Qatar….the neighbour of Iran….just across the Persian Gulf.
Oh, I know a little about Quatar, but only a little.
Qatar is a country with a small population…. 30% local Qatari, 40% lndian National, and 30% other foreigners that include Philipinos, Indonesian, Malaysian, British, Americans, Iranians, Iraqis, Lebenones, Syrians, Eyptians, Sri Langkans and a handful of Singaporeans. There are lots of job opportunities in this country as its economy is developing rapidly. If you have the chance, you should be here to work and gain experience living in the middle east. You should have no problem in adapting the environment because the Indian nationality community is very big. There are lots of Indian restaurants selling ….Berayni, Toosai, Prata, Nan…etc …I love Indian foods…very spicy and delicious! Yummi!
Only 30% local!!!
Haha, it’s not prata, it’s paa-raa-Thaa.
does that comment even make sense? I’ll try again: I 100% understand why women stop referring to themselves as feminists because of discrimination within the movement. meanwhile, I personally opt to continue to call myself a feminist and work to broaden the definitions of feminism. the end.
oh my gosh, I’m so sorry, I left that comment by mistake. (clicked over from thinking girl’s blog.) so so sorry! but happy to find your blog!
Sharique,
A wild guess
But I do remember Manas refering you to me to help something related with blogging, and both of you have much common, religion, education, nationality and both of you are intelligent young men
.
petit
Even I am glad to have you hear (woops, here). I saw your site. I am not into feminism much, but I do rub it’s boundaries occassionaly.
gess
Emphasis on men. Not good, not good at all!
Salaam 2jay,
Just a short comment.
If every Indian educated Muslim choose to leave the country, why are we surprise voiceless among Muslim community in India?
According to a Muslim leader in India, the biggest obstacle for Indian Mulims is brain drain from well educated Muslims.
Salaam 2jay,
Just a short comment.
If every Indian educated Muslim choose to leave the country, why are we surprise voiceless among Muslim community in India?
According to a Muslim leader in India, the biggest obstacle for Indian Mulims is brain drain from well educated Muslims.
Manas,
How about ageing men?
You never told us how old you are.
Salaam to you too, gess.
Why would one be surprised? Most of the educated people from all communities in India are doing the same thing…leaving the country for better opportunities. So if the educated non-Muslims can go abroad why not the educated Muslims?
So when the educated among the Muslims community went overseas, the ones left behind were uneducated, mostly the old and feeble….they did not know how to voice out.
And among the religious one, they remained silent as they were perhaps, well verse with the teaching of Islam that encouraged Muslims to seek knowledge and one of the way is to travel abroad in search for opportunities in whatever areas, may it be jobs, educations, etc….including learning the cultures of others, experiencing a different environment……to be knowledgeable and broad-minded.
The emphasis on learning in Islam is clearly reflected in Hajj. No wonder it is ordained to every able adult muslims once in a life time.
Feel free to visit my blog to read more about the true meaning of Hajj that I found during the Hajj pilgrimage performed in 2005.
As’Salamu Aleikum 2jay.
I think I have expressed poorly (it happenes quite often) on brain drain effect from Indian Muslims. I’m not against the well educated Muslims to travel to the West or in the Gulf stats for further education or to exchange cultural values. The same happanes here in the West, where a student is expected to travel overseas if he wants a good track record, which was also a common thing to do in early days of Muslim history. Nothing extraordinary was it to see a Bagdady student travelling places like Timbuktu (Mali, West Africa).
But what use is it for the Muslim community (AND rest of India!) if these young students not contribute their knowledge but instead of being slaves for others? And more importantly who is going to defend their rights for the poor people? The voiceless?
I’m more than in favour to see more Indians travel to the West, because they will realize that the West is not the promised land.
gess
Give these young students a break….they have been studying very hard. They are still young….still learning….that is the reason they are called young students. Yes they do have the knowledge, however they still not wise yet….not ready to defend the rights for the poor people, the voiceless. They need more time to develop maturity.
About the promised land…..like you said, the West in not a promised land, I am saying now neither is the Gulf in the Middle East. One can never feel happy to be a foreigner….. one will always be treated a second class citizen in a foreign land. The pasture on the other side always looks greener. One will know the truth after going over. I had travelled alot living in foreign lands and I learnt that there is no place like homeland!
So if one intended to go abroad, one should have a mission and a time frame. When mission accomplished within the time frame than it is time to go home.
Asalamualaikum wa Rahmatullah
A nice Blog do you have, maybe you can add mine to your Blogroll, too:
http://truelife200vi.wordpress.com – Jazak’Allah khair.
Was Salam
True Life
I am sorry. I don’t get it. Are you saying because my blog looks good to you, I should add you?
No, if you like it you can add it or not – you’re Blog will still look good and I’ll keep checking it.
Okay. I have not visited your blog before. I shall visit. Maybe, if God so will, I will add you.
I think myself lucky to find you here on this blogging world (i appreciate your comment through which i got here).
I’m a pakistani Muslim and i have many queries regarding Muslims in India. I do have many hindu friends and many indian hindus often ask them how they find Pakistan or if Muslims treating them right, I don’t have that kind of queries but indians Muslims lifestyles do fascinate me and I would like to know more about them…
Consider yourself getting yet another visitor for your blog because I read your posts and they are really good.
Thank you very much for saying that.
Go on and shoot your questions. Why don’t you email me with your questions? Yes I know about the hinuds in Pakistan being in lot of question.
Thank you very much for reading. It feels so good when people read!
I stumbled into your blog from the fanonite.
Nice blog…..its good to know some facts about Muslims in India. Cheers
thank you so much iman!
Thanks for stopping by!
I read Bangalore somewhere. That’s where I was born.
Is that where you are from too?
Salam wa rahmatullah.
)
Thanks for dropping by – seems that I have about an order of magnitude more traffic lately
(I guess it’s the logical consequence of having a post published in Ijtema
I’m not really a theoretical physicist – well, probably more of hopeful (despite hopelessness) philosopher
I’ve been having your feed subscribed to. Kindly let me say that I also appreciate the company of meditating ancient rocks.
Regards
khadak
Thanks to you too.
Hafsa
Glad to meet someone from B’lore. I’m not from bangalore . I’m from western part of West Bengal(explains the bit about riveside).
Fara
I’m ecstatic to have you here.
Pleasure is all mine [from Mr. Deeds
]
Got a question for you – sending you an email regarding it. Would appreciate your help..
السلام علیکم بھائی!
رمضان کریم۔
جائی ھند
elKindi
I am, at present, very bad reader of the Arabic script. Can you please help me?
Hi brother,
Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for the suggestion you put there. I am glad to find your blog. It’s really interesting. Moreover, besides being Muslim, we do have one more thing in common, it’s research and off course I will not ask the area of your research work. Keep in touch!
drfarrukh
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll sure try to keep in touch.
Stummbled .. hmm
Thank you for that album. I was searching for kind of fotos. For my blog.. Am not nationalist. I too think globally
Shahrzad
I loved this album too! About nationalism, thanks for the clarification.
Manas,
When are you going to update your blog
I miss your writing
Salaam gess
I miss writing too. But I am out of ideas at the moment. Going through a non-productive phase!
An Indian blogger who lives in India who is out of ideas?
Strange
Anyway, do you remember my friend who is a Buddhist ? Well she went back to India (Burgaia?) for pilgrimage.
The one thing I want to say is, I hope you are still in India when it is my turn to visit the country
And if I am lucky, I’ll will visit Bhutan, because my friend got an invitation. How cool is that!
Asslamu alaikum Manas
The same thing happened to me .
I rarely post on my blog because I can’t think what I should write about.
So I end up posting comments here and there .
Wa’Alaykum as-Salam brother
It’s because I am in a process of clarifying some thoughts. I hope to return sometime. But this blog will probably be much ignored.
Salaam,
The discussions here are excellent and have deep emotional intelligence. I would love to indulge in this but my main quest at the minute is to find a novel which is sort of like an antidote to Taslima Nasreen. Please can you help