Amir Suhail Wani

R&D Engineer(Electrical), Columnist, Poet, Comparative Studies Scholar and a full-time madman.

March 7, 2024

Additional installment of DA, DR for central govt employees approved

New Delhi: Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved to release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f.…

Editorial

January 2, 2024

Discovering the beauty and diversity of Islam

Islam is the youngest and the oldest of the religions of the world. As a creed starting with the prophet of Arabia, the story of Islam is just fourteen centuries old. But…

Opinion

June 6, 2023

Reading Sheikh Ul Aalam in contemporary times

There’s a pervasive but damaging tendency characterising human behaviour universally; those who should have inspired the realms of thought and action are oftentimes placed too closer to divinity. In so doing, they…

Our understanding of the cosmos

By Amir Suhail Wani – Bacon, as Rupert Sheldrake reminds us in his book The Science Delusion, wanted to secure for science the same place as was erstwhile occupied by religion – Christianity,…

August 31, 2021

Opinion

Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki – The Poet of Wisdom

It would suffice to say that modernity has knit, by virtue of its technological improvisations, humanity into single whole, while simultaneously splitting the human self and making it susceptible to intellectual, spiritual…

August 23, 2021

Education·Latest News·Opinion

Questioning science – Outlining scientific theories of knowledge

In his recent work The Frontiers Of Knowledge, A. C. Grayling, otherwise a committed atheist, has spoken of The Paradox Of the knowledge, laying bare at the same time the enormity of…

August 10, 2021

Education·Opinion

Words on theology: Early Asharism

Any doctrine stretched beyond its hermeneutic edge, starts yielding contradictory results that at times form a breeding ground for extremism – ideological and practical. The Mutazillite quest for uncompromising and unqualified monotheism…

August 3, 2021

Education·Opinion

National award-winning actor Surekha Sikri dies of cardiac arrest at 75

Mumbai: Veteran actor Surekha Sikri died on Friday morning at the age of 75 following a cardiac arrest, her agent said. In a statement shared with the media, the agent said the…

July 16, 2021

Reclaiming Hikmah (II): Towards philosophical liberation

By Amir Suhail Wani – With the arrival of “Reign of Quantity” and submergence of the qualitative approach to life, a host of existential issues have arrived floating in our lives. The…

July 13, 2021

Education·Latest News·Opinion

Reclaiming Hikmah (I) – Towards philosophical liberation

By Amir Suhail Wani Classical philosophy emerged out of wonder, modern philosophy has moved beyond wonder just to relapse into doubt. Thus post-Descartian philosophy is one rooted in doubt. Scepticism is reason…

July 6, 2021

Education·Opinion

Celebration and mourning in Gulzar’s poetry

Sri Aurobindo, in his seminal essay The Future of Poetry, observes that “Truth of poetry is not truth of philosophy or truth of science or truth of religion only because it is another way of…

June 28, 2021

Opinion

Revisiting Iqbal (Part 17) – Iqbal in Politics (II)

By Amir Suhail Wani – Minorities, be they religious or cultural, are always engaged in struggle for existence while majoritarian population works to win or convert them to their side – or…

June 22, 2021

Education·Latest News·Opinion

Revisiting Iqbal (Part 16) – Iqbal in politics

By Amir Suhail Wani – ” A sacred phenomenon like religion should never be made a decisive element and common unity should never be fractured” (Muhammad Iqbal) If politics is, what Harold Lasswell…

June 15, 2021

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