 The purpose of "The Aligarh Forum" is to provide a platform to all- who are inspired by Sir Syed Ahmad khan's Aligarh Movement, who aspire and desire to work for the betterment of his Movement's embodiment, The Aligarh Muslim university as well as for promoting enlightened ideals of education, research and service to the community. We welcome them all who wish to promote these ethos through their valuable contributions. The Aligarh Forum believes in broad-minded toleration; of thoughts, of visions, of ideas, and of inclusiveness. Based on these cherished humane principles of Sir Syed and of Aligarh Muslim university's central character, we invite and welcome all to engage among themselves with healthy, hearty and enlightened exchange of views, discussions / debates on the Aligarh Muslim university related issues in particular and on the overall condition of Indian Muslims in general. We sincerely intend to remain transparent, honest and unbiased. And we dearly wish from our members to follow the same code of ethics. Our Forum will be a "moderated" forum, and which means that the postings of our members will be first screened for any indecent language and unfounded contents before an approval. Anyone who believes in the philosophy, spirit and aspirations of Aligarh Movement and Aligarh Muslim university is entitled to become a member of "The Aligarh Forum". auroN ka hai payaam aur, mera payaam aur hai ishq key dard-mand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! Group Email Addresses
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ASAK,
We have two Moderators on this forum; I am the founder/owner of this forum, but have invited Dr.Suhaib Siddiqi to join me as the second Moderator.
We both have studied at AMU up to the graduation level, but we both went out of AMU for our Ph.Ds. Our brief sketches are;
Razi Raziuddin
I am a research scientist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA. My field of interest is cancer biology. I am a rare blend of Aligarh Muslim University as well as Banaras Hindu University; all my early eduction up to M.Sc. were from AMU; and Ph.D. ( Biochemistry) from BHU. I came to the USA in 1980, and reside/ live in Maryland,USA with my family.
I am a "fourth generation" Alig; my great grand-father entered M.A.O. college in 1898 and had the honor of seeing the great grand old man, Sir Syed Ahmad khan. Since then, for the last one-hundred and ten years, the extended family has had produced over sixty-seventy AMU graduates. I was raised in an environment of academicians, literary and religious scholars and social/ community activists, most of whose members were always found engaged in establishing schools/ libraries/ mosques etc, along side their other indulgences of writing articles, books and Urdu poetry.
I am simply a product of my family background. My passion, too, remains the same; community activism, Urdu poetry, literature, political sciences/ history and religious philosophies. Along sides these passions, professionally I remain an active science researcher. I consider myself as a very routine kind of ordinary Indian, nothing special, nothing unusual to catch anyone's eye and/or imagination.
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Suhaib M. Siddiqi
I head a section as Director of Organic Chemistry of a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company. I am an Alig from elementary to M.Sc. level, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Vienna, Austria. Since 1989 I live in the USA with my family.
I come from a very literary family background; my father,Ibn-e-Farid, a professor at AMU, was a well-known Urdu literature critic, and my mother founded a Urdu magazine called"Hijaab". Urdu runs in the family as by chance I have a wife who too holds a Ph.D. in Urdu literature. So my family background and environment was always very literary and intellectual. I guess it runs into me as I too find myself absorbed with books, research articles and debating forums on multiple disciplines of religious, political and literary interests.
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