Silence is not shutting of the mouth Or the drying of the ink in the pen Or the fingers idling…
Amma, I Miss You
I wish I could sit by my mother Once again like ol’ times While she strokes my hair And I…
Seeking Truth Through Silence
O Sam, surely by all your readingYou have discovered and realizedThat there is wisdom and TruthThat words cannot captureAnd what…
Random Musings
“I’m trying not to be reborn. So, what’s so happy about a birthday?”–some dude “A little money, a little pleasure,…
No Big Deal
“The more I live life the less appealing it seems to me.”–a guy called DSR
What India Needs
“What India needs is not Secularism but Multiculturalism, which it already has to a large extent; we just need to…
The 5 best books on Multiculturalism
recommended by Prof. Tariq Modood “I think that one of the key differences between multiculturalism and liberalism is that liberalism…
Prof. Tariq Modood on Multiculturalism and Secularism
The second shift for me is that prior to the importance of religion was the importance of identity. This goes…
Islam and Multiculturalism
The modern state has been characterized by Bikhu Parekh as “a historically unique mode of defining and relating its members”,…
Secularism and Multiculturalism by Charles Taylor
In other words, a modern democratic state demands a people with a strong collective identity. Democracy obliges us to show…