Ajmal

YOU CAN BLOW UP THE SHRINE BUT YOU CANNOT ERASE THE SPIRIT

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December 21st 2013
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela I recently revisited the sufi shrines of the saints Nizamuddin (Delhi) and Christi (Ajmer) and was again mindful of the obscene attempts of the Taliban in Pakistan and elsewhere to destroy sufism by blowing up such shrines. This is a campaign by fundamentalists/ Islamic puritans to try an ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more