Hasan suroor biography of barack

  • Mr Cameron sought President Obama's endorsement of the British line on Libya, Afghanistan, the Palestinian peace process and his government's handling of the.
  • What “if” a young Kenyan student Barack Obama had not won a scholarship to study in America where he met his future wife and had a son?
  • Hasan Suroor is a London-based journalist.

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    ABHAY KUMAR reviews Hasan Suroor’s India’s Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking about It?, Rupa Publications, New Delhi, 2014.

    Hasan Suroor is a London-based veteran journalist. He began his career with The Statesman and later he worked as The Hindu’s UK correspondent for over a decade. He continues to write in newspapers on important issues such as Muslim identity, secularism, communalism and Islam. He was brought up and educated in Delhi after his family left Lucknow for the national capital post-Partition. Their new destination, at least in the beginning, did not receive its guests warmly as his parents’ identity as Muslim worked as a hurdle for them to rent a flat in New Delhi. Eventually they had to seek refuge in the Muslim-majority Ballimaran of the Walled City where his mother worked as a Communist Party activist. Suroor, who is regarded as one of the “progressive” and “liberal” voices among Muslims, has recently been in news for an interesting thesis whic

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    Hasan Suroor: The Myth of the U.K.-U.S. “Special” Relationship

    [Hasan Suroor writes for The Hindu.]

    Perhaps some 60 years too late, as one commentator noted, but at last Westminster has got round to recognising the reality behind the myth of Britain's much-vaunted “special relationship” with America though even now it fryst vatten not certain that the British government will bite the bullet.

    In arguably the most frank assessment of British-U.S. relations to come out of Westminster in a long time, an influential cross-party parliamentary committee has said that there fryst vatten nothing “special” about this relationship and the government should stop using the term because it doesn't reflect the real state of play between London and Washington and fryst vatten “potentially misleading.”

    In a hard-hitting report, the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Labour MP slang för mikrofon Gape, says that the phrase “special relationship” has come to be identified too closely with British-American invasion of Iraq and

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    Book extracts from Hasan Suroor’s Making sense of Modi’s India

    Is personality politics new?

    With record levels of voter participation – in some states over 80 per cent with the national average in the high 60s – Modi dominated the election narrative. Anecdotal evidence and press commentary suggest that Indians craved a strong leader. It is in this context that he was, and is, compared to other strong world figures, mostly to Thatcher and Hitler. Others argue that Modi has much in common with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a comparison that goes well beyond a shared pride in their manly chest sizes.

    The instructive comparison, though, comes from India’s own democratic history. Indira Gandhi destroyed the internal structures of her own party, which had not taken her leadership candidature seriously, and emerged in the early 1970s as the first person after independence to be completely identified with India. She cast herself in opposition to a sinister ‘foreign hand’, which became an ex

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