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“An impact that will endure” – A Tribute to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
By Jayaprakash Narayan, With his child-like curiosity, simplicity and optimism, no other public figure endeared himself to all sections of India quite like Abdul Kalam did. Abdul Kalam’s passing has seen a national outpour of grief. This emotional unity in a diverse India is rare in peacetime. No other public figure endeared himself to all […]
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The speech of Prof. Hema Raghavan at International Women’s Day’s Celebration
I thank Indialogue Foundation for conferring on me this honour on International Women’s Day. I dedicate this honour to all men and women, all brothers and sisters who constitute Humanity on earth, our planet. Men and women are two sides of the same coin of Humanity and both are engaged in their respective ways to […]
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Freedom of Expression in the line of #RespectForTheSacred
By Nurdin Kaparov, On 7th January the world community witnessed another horrible terror attack in Paris which by some analysts described as “9/11 of France”. Two masked man stormed the head-office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire on staff members, 12 people were killed and 5 were wounded in the shooting. Strong […]
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An intellectopia of its own: reading the cultural roles of Indialogue Foundation
By Jhilam Chattaraj, I. Introduction Accidents of history, politics and culture have repeatedly urged India and Turkey to revive their old friendship. It is diplomatically difficult but culturally possible. Since the year 2005, Indialogue Foundation, has been trying to address the gaps and silences between the Indian and Turkish intelligentsia. Thus trying to create what […]
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“Common Values of Faiths – An Interfaith Initiative”
Written Statement by Indialogue Foundation (India) for Geneve Peace Conference on “Mobilizing Civil Society for Building Peace” October 24, 2014 Geneva Indialogue Foundation, its objectives and activities Indialogue Foundation is an action-oriented international dialogue and peace foundation, was founded in 2005, through imagination and fortune of a group of Turkish and Indian people. Foundation is […]
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Book Review by Roshan Shah – “The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue: A Muslim Perspective”
Name of Book: The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue – A Muslim Perspective Author: M. Fethullah Gulen Publisher: The Light, Inc., Somerset, New Jersey, USA ISBN: 1-932099-65-4 One of the most serious threats that humanity is faced with today is terror in the name of religion. And perhaps nowhere is this problem more severe than in […]
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Encounters in Delhi and New Delhi
A Travelogue by Leo D. Lefebure, I arrived at the international airport in Delhi early on the morning of February 9, 2014. Turkish Airlines had notified me that the flight would arrive twenty minutes later than originally planned, but in fact it arrived at the original time. I sped through the passport control, baggage claim, […]
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Building Communities of Peace: Muslim-Christian Relations in Asia
By Victor Edwin SJ,NEW DELHI: Recently a number of organisations including Francis Xavier Movement (Italy), Henry Martyn Institute (Hyderabad), Interfaith Coalition for Peace (New Delhi), Zakir Hussain Institute of Islamic Studies – Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Indialogue Foundation (New Delhi) and Islamic Studies Association (Delhi) jointly organised a Seminar Building Communities of Peace: Muslim-Christian […]
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Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement
By Prof. A. R. Momin, Fathullah Gulen, 71, is one of the most charismatic and influential preachers, educationists and intellectuals in the contemporary Muslim world. The Gulen movement, inspired by his ideas, runs more than 800 schools in more than 100 countries and regions, including Turkey, Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, China, India, Russia, Germany, France, […]
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Reconciliation of Faith and Reason
A review of book titled “The Gulen Movement: Civic Service Without Borders” By Prof. Anwar Alam, The Gulen Movement (hereafter GM), as it is usually referred to in English, has attracted the attention of “critical public minds and scholarship” throughout the world in recent years for two important reasons. First, Fethullah Gulen’s ideas and praxis […]
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