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In the  aftermath of the 22 day long Israeli carnage  which killed  over 1330 Palestinians including 411 children ,injured more than 5,450 people , left over 70,000 homeless and virtually  turned Gaza into a wasteland ,all what the war battered and impoverished  Palestinians wanted was  food, medicine , water and  the like  to keep their body and soul together in …

The general image built up by the relentless pro Jewish Western media since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been that women in Iran were an oppressed lot without any freedom that the women in the West were supposed to have been blessed with. I too was partly a victim of this powerful Western propaganda that is part of the western …

A two day conference in support of Palestinian struggle for freedom under the title “Palestine –the Symbol of Resistance; Gaza the Victim of Crime” was held in Tehran on 4 and 5 of March this year. The conference attended by more than 80 delegates comprising of politicians, intellectuals, human rights activists,journalists and numerous others from all corners of the world …

The film Slumdog Millionaire after already having won several international awards has gone on to win no less than eight Oscars. No film, it appears, has ever provoked so sensational an international response as this one. What on earth is all this about? The question arises because on the surface it seems to be no more than an average rags-to-riches …

Muslim presence in the North dates back to eighth century. According to historians forefathers of present Muslims were present in the North of Sri Lanka as far back as the eight century.  Mannar and Jaffna are two places recorded in history. Muslims have been engaged in Trade and other vocation in the Jaffna area. They were settled in number of …