Sultan Shahin

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Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Journalist
Location	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Introduction	My name is SULTAN SHAHIN. I am a journalist, based in New Delhi, India. I was born in 1949 in a village in Bihar, India. There was no school to go to, so my father, an Urdu teacher and a Maulvi (religious teacher) taught me initially. I graduated from Patna University in 1972, with English literature as my main subject, and have been mostly a Delhi-based journalist since. I spent most of 1980s in London and travelled in Europe and North America extensively. For the last three years I was based in Paramaribo, Suriname, South America. I have worked mainly as a freelance writer of opinion pieces for most Indian publications. My subject is South Asian politics, with special reference to Muslim politics, Islamic ideology and culture, India-Pakistan relations, and Hindu-Muslim relations. Indian newspapers introduce me as a specialist in Muslim politics and culture. I have been writing columns for Asia Times online,(atimes.com) a Hong Kong-based website since 1999. Now I am running an Islamic website New Age Islam. It is available on www.NewAgeIslam.com I can be reached at Editor@NewAgeIslam.com