Shajahan Madampat

Shajahan Madampat is an Indian writer, critic and social commentator based in Middle East who writes on issues related to culture, media and Middle East affairs in the Outlook magazine, and Malayalam weekly magazines Kalakaumudi and Mathrubhumi.

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 * The distinctive feature of the Muslim League in Kerala is that it strove to keep the community at the centre of the state’s politics, unlike other Muslim political formations elsewhere in India that revelled in confessional isolationism. As a result, the Kerala Muslims emerged as probably the only community of that faith in India that achieved genuine political empowerment on the one hand and, on the other, lived out the promise of equal citizenship enshrined in the Constitution.
 * "Malappuram Isn’t Mini Kashmir", Outlook, 21 August 2017.


 * If organising a religious community politically on the basis of antagonism to another is communalism, the IUML has never mobilised its cadre nor used its political and often administrative clout to create religious divides. On the contrary, whenever the state faced a communally sensitive situation, the party rose to the occasion and played a stellar role in dousing the flames. It is pertinent to mention that the decision to establish the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, for “the promotion and development of the study of Sanskrit, Indology, Indian Philosophy and Indian languages” was taken when a Muslim League leader was Kerala’s minister of education.
 * "The importance of IUML", The Indian Express, 11 April 2019.