Interviews – Maeeshat

EditorJanuary 11, 2022

The otherwise poor and rudderless Muslim community in West Bengal is awakened now and raring to succeed thanks to the Howrah-based Al Ameen Mission, anchoring an educational renaissance in the state. Danish Reyaz speaks to its Founder-General Secretary M.Nurul Islam about Mission’s journey, vision, and impact on Bengali Muslims. Al-Ameen Mission has strived to educate […]

EditorJanuary 9, 2022

By Danish Reyaz, Maeeshat, Mumbai West Bengal is a state where the Muslims are in large numbers- nearly 30% of the entire state’s population- but they are also one of the poorest communities in the state, mostly leading pitiable lives. Once the well-off, service class and intelligentsia from the community migrated to East Pakistan (now […]

EditorJanuary 9, 2022

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By Danish Reyaz Although the commercial banking system has propagated to far-flung areas, a large chunk of people, especially the poor, still remain out of their bounds. Reasons are many, including banks own reluctance towards disbursing small loans to these people. As a result, poor and low-income families often go to the local money lenders, […]

EditorSeptember 30, 2021

By Danish Reyaz The area of 24-Parganas, 60 km from Kolkata, looks devoid of all basic amenities even from far, but as you enter the limits of Aerotech Engineering Works Private Limited, the high-tech factory of Mr Habibullah will remove all the negative feelings from your mind. Sitting in his drawing room, fitted with all […]

EditorJuly 29, 2021

By Danish Reyaz for Maeeshat, Mumbai It was 15 March 2015, the day when Janseva Cooperative Credit Society Limited had organized an inaugural program to launch its branch in Gaya city of Bihar. From Mumbai, they had invited the founder director of society Doctor Rahmatullah. I was also invited to participate in this program by […]

adminMay 25, 2021

Frank F. Islam is a globally renowned entrepreneur, investor, civic leader and philanthropist. Islam’s personal journey from India to the US and his meteoric rise in the upper echelons of American business world, politics, and civil society is a inspiring story for South Asians in America. In a Q & A with South Asia Monitor, the […]

adminMay 25, 2021

The prominent lawyer and activist, who has been involved in several cases representing the under-privileged and victims of riots and those targeted by communalists, is often pitted against governments both at the centre and in the states. An exclusive interview with Desai Ashok Kumar | MUMBAI An activist and a top lawyer, Mihir Desai is […]

adminMay 25, 2021

Danish Reyaz | Maeeshat Kolkata: D.B. Kasar, currently Principal Chief Security Commissioner at the South Eastern Railway, was honored with the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service on the eve of Independence Day earlier this year. The presidential award was the recognition to his valuable services as a security officer at the Indian Railways in […]

adminMay 25, 2021

By Syed Ali Mujtaba In the shadow of Covid- 19 locked down, there has been a spate of arrests being made in Delhi, mostly against the peaceful anti-CAA protesters and also against alleged instigators of communal riots in North-East Delhi. This is an alarming development happening in the national capital that too under the watchful […]

adminMay 25, 2021

CHANDIGARH: A former member of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sudheendra Kulkarni says that the recent communal clashes in the Indian capital Delhi have affected India’s global image. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, author and strategist Kulkarni, who worked as a close aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee […]

Category: Interviews

Invigorating Muslims through Education…

M Nurul Islam, Founder of Al Ameen Mission, Spearheads a Quiet Educational Revolution in West Bengal

Al-Khair Co-Operative Credit Society Strives to Improve the Economic Lot of Low-Income Groups

From Mechanical Engineer to Greenhouse Manufacturer: The Trendsetter Entrepreneur Mr Habibullah Journey

Dr. Hamid Hussain: A Lone Wolf Social Entrepreneur of Bihar

Substantial opportunity for Indians and South Asians to make it big in America: Frank Islam

“Any Criticism from Govt is seen by me as Having Done My Job Well”: Mihir Desai

An Interaction with D.B. Kasar – Winner of President’s Police Medal and Brain Behind Railways’ Civil Safety Operations

Vocal youths from a particular community are being targeted, says the lawyer of anti-CAA-NCR activists

‘Delhi communal riot affects India’s global image’ : Sudheendra Kulkarni

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