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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian |  July 05, 2015

On April 8. 1984. Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma the first Indian spaceman gave an interview from space which relayed from the mission control centre in Moscow. was telecast live on the national Indian TV network. Part of the conversation went like this: Question: How do you pass your time when there is no work?

Sharma: I just peep through the window and watch the timeless space.

Question: Don't you feel like a tiny human being up there dwarfed by the endless space?

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian |  June 28, 2015 

"The business of legislature," writes Bertrand Russell "is to produce harmony between public and private interests. It is to the interest of the public that I should abstain from theft, but it is not to my interest except where there is an effective criminal law. Thus the criminal law is a method of making the interests of the individual coincide with those of the community" (The History of Western Philosophy, pp. 741-42).

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | June 21, 2015

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan  | The Sunday Guardian | June 14, 2015

"Nature works," says Emerson, "on a method of all for each and each for all." This sums up the process at work in the universe. There are innumerable forces in nature functioning with amazing coordination, in complete harmony with one another. The whole corresponds to the part and vice versa.