Listening to Grasshoppers is a collection of 12 essays that presents the flaws Indian democracy and used as tool suppression by government corporate. The violence dominant classes, Americans, Hindu Nationalism towards minorities, poor Kashmiri Muslims, Dalits, Palestinians, Armenian, Maoists explored in it. This discriminatory attitude results bouncing back reactions responses events. Furthermo...

The tragic Paris terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 sparked a massive global discussion on Twitter and other social media, with millions of tweets in the first few hours after the attacks. Most of these tweets were condemning the attacks and showing support for Parisians. One of the trending debates related to the attacks concerned possible association between Muslims and terrorism, which r...

Background/objectivesIn countries like India, common public concerns regarding nutrition are low birth weight. The types and patterns of food consumption vary among Hindus Muslims. Therefore, the objectives present study in Indian context based on two religious groups, Hindu Muslim. To know how nutritional status women is associated with different socio-economic, demographic, spatial determinan...

In the post-Suharto Reformasi era, Chinese Indonesians are enjoying new freedom to express their culture. The ethnic Chinese number around three million, making up about 1.5% of the nation’s population (Suryadinata 2004c: vii). Chinese Muslims constitute a minority religious group within this minority ethnic group, and little research has been done on them. Jacobsen (2005) puts forward a pessim...

This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to...

Using indepth interviews and focus group data generated from elderly men and women in Singapore, this article focuses on the impact of religious beliefs and practices on their aging experience. The cross-cultural comparison deals with the Malay community comprising Muslims, and the Indian community comprising Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and a Jain. The research demonstrates the positive influence...