Owais Wani

Delving into one of the most intricate, emotional and unfortunately polarizing topics related to Muslim civilization Rarely does a book manage to give one the abysmal feeling of what one was missing before reading it. The book under review “Mutala e Tasawwuf” manages to do just that. “Mutala e Tasawwuf” is a book that delves into one of the most intricate, emotional and unfortunately polarizing topics related to Muslim civilization i.e. the study of Tasawwuf and yet it manages to come out with a pristine clarity and an unbiased hue that is the hallmark of erudite scholarship. The author Dr. Ghulam Qadir Lone of Rafiabad Baramulla is a scholar who has M.A Arabic and PhD. from Lucknow University, and is one among the rare breed of scholars who can claim mastery over all three languages of Muslim antiquity in Asia i.e. Arabic, Urdu and Persian. The book spans over 600 pages, besides the introduction it has been divided into ten parts, each dealing with an underlying theme of Sufi...

Talking To Married Women About Sex Showed Me How Little Wives Think About Consent Ironically, in a sanctimonious institution, undesired marital sex is a grim reality that its women have to live with each day, without any reprieve. It wouldn’t be preposterous to say that largely, marriages in India traditionally strip women of their independence and put them in male custodianship for life. With the quagmire that is marital rape in India, it was troubling me that perhaps we had gotten off on the wrong foot, seeing how the concept of consent within marriage is a notion that so many of us don’t understand. Coming from an environment where I wanted to ask uncomfortable questions but was expected to “just know things with age”, it was difficult to broach the topic. “I met him only after marriage. I was nervous but that couldn’t be an excuse. In our times, we never knew we could say no. You can’t discuss bedroom matters in a courtroom.” However unsurprising my mother’s reluc...

I cried day and night My tears are now drained My face veiled with scars, And my hands still chained. Being released from prison  is a desire now dead. My glory journey of life is now at its end. O'my beloved father now for that moment i await. Once again you'll embrace me Standing at Heaven's gate... Owais Wani

As An Indian Muslim, The First Thing I’m Asked By Trolls Is To Go To Pakistan I am tired of what is happening within India. I am amazed at how everyone is fooling each other. The cases of increasing violence, rapist babas, lynchings and other atrocities towards minorities are making me weaker every day. I see a few of my friends no longer care about such incidents. I hated them initially. How could they be so ignorant about their own country? I reviled them for their ignorance but now I realise that at least they are happy. They are happy with their own lives, where they don’t have to face such instances of violence. We are a few more deaths nearer to becoming where dissent or voicing your opinion can result in the loss of life. Murders and lynchings are becoming the new ‘normal’ in this country. The kind of trolling and justifications we had to witness online after Gauri Lankesh’s murder was shameful. I have been writing for a few media houses. One NDTV article I ...