‘Farhana’: Shaping a Muslim Woman in Unprecedented Settings

Review by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD; originally published in Maktoob Media. Tamil movie industry doesn’t bring many Muslim heroes and heroines; hence, a hijabi woman as the title protagonist in a story unfolding in a non-community setting, definitely arouses curiosity, particularly in India’s alarmingly Islamophobic environment. That’s what Farhana does, and concomitantly, there was an unfortunate controversy prior to the release of the movie,

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Remembering Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait

Obituary Veteran political leader Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait died on April 27, 2005, aged 83. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD met Sait saheb in Kochi and Bangalore several times for a detailed biographical interview, which was published by Thejas fortnightly in three issues. This was an obituary written for The Milli Gazzette.  Superlatives are acceptable when they’re attributed to real people. The legendary political

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