Are Grameen loans women friendly?

Posted on November 9, 2018

I believe the microfinance programs for rural women in Bangladesh and elsewhere are anti-poor and anti-women rather than pro-poor and pro-women. Muhammad Yunus loves to call it ‘social business,’ but they are in reality greedy business run by draconian loan-sharks. The word ‘social’ here is used for media consumption only.... [Read More]
Tags: society  women 

Seeking knowledge in the age of Internet

Posted on October 30, 2018

In this article, I do not attempt to evaluate the social media’s impact on our social life or how it affected the way we communicate, or what health and psychological threats these media pose to the mankind. These are no doubt big tickets, but they are not my subject of... [Read More]
Tags: knowledge  internet 

Effect of Moon on Our Behavior

Posted on September 11, 2018

There are certain knowledge passed to us from antiquity that seems very strange to us in the twenty first century. Often arrogantly we dub them as false and myth. Not necessarily. For example, the effect of planetary movement (like sun and moon) on human (or animal) behavior. Today’s science might... [Read More]
Tags: moon  fasting 

Homo Sapiens

Religious vs Atheistic Narrative

Posted on September 9, 2018

Allah has created this Universe for human beings. The first human was Adam. Allah created Adam by His hands from clay, and created from Adam the first women Eve. All things in heaven and earth were made for the offspring of Adam and Eve. All these bounties bestowed to us... [Read More]
Tags: evolution 

Attitude towards work in Islam

Posted on March 18, 2018

Prophet Muhammad -peace be upon him- said in a hadith that the most truthful names are cultivator and thinker. In this tradition, prophet Muhammad is summing up the progressive and dynamic nature of human being as someone who always thinks, and does jobs. He thinks how to grow plants and... [Read More]
Tags: work  employment