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Rasheed Talib qualified as a Barrister from Lincoln’s Inn, UK, in June 1958. After practising for 2 years at the Bombay High Court, he joined Lever Brothers’ Bombay Head Office as legal counsel. Didnt much like the commercial life; so left this MNC to become a journalist in New Delhi, where he worked for more than 18 years as Senior Assistant Editor/Political Editorial Writer at the Hindustan Times and later for a short while Executive Editor/National Columnist at India Today newsmagazine. Rasheed worked as a freelance producer/presenter of Current Affairs programmes for Doordarshan, India’s public broadcasting service. Now 74 years old, Rasheed Talib is in deep retirement in a neighbouring area of Delhi busy writing a book on Islam and Modernity.
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My Perspective on Islam
Rasheed Talib Aug 7, 2003 interacts: 56 Views: 9028Humanists cannot endorse terrorist targeting of innocents no matter how just the cause
A Challenge to My Co-religionists
Rasheed Talib Apr 29, 2003 interacts: 120 Views: 11825at least three factors that explain why religious fundamentalism is such a popular political proposition
Islam in Crisis - Part 3
Rasheed Talib Mar 26, 2003 interacts: 45 Views: 6025Isn't this a good time for a re-look at Islam and its interface with modernity?
Islam in Crisis (Part2)
Rasheed Talib Feb 19, 2003 interacts: 115 Views: 12520one must start by asking a hitherto unasked question, namely, about the nature and character of the Quran
Creation of Hindu ’madrasas’
Rasheed Talib Dec 26, 2002 interacts: 125 Views: 15206Is this the sort of education we Indians want in our school system?
Rasheed Talib
- Articles on Chowk: 6
- First article: Dec 26, 2002
- Latest article: Aug 7, 2003
- Times read on Chowk: 71056
