When Voyager 1 spacecraft was leaving our solar system on February 14, 1990, engineers turned it around for a last look on Earth from 4 billion miles away. The picture of a tiny dot of light, among countless stars, inspired Dr Sagan to write a moving piece, entitled 'Pale Blue Dot'. Few words from it are quoted here. “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic...

I want to invite the AMU community to reflect on something that has always been a part of an Alig’s existence and yet has not attracted the required discussion and debate. I am referring to the symbols in the AMU emblem. The apparently common place symbols, a tree, a book, and the crescent moon, all have deep significance attached to them and one need not be a symbolist or Illuminati to realize their worth. The verse within the emblem especially is extremely important as it tells us something that has the potential to change the face of earth, only if we can realize its true message. The tree,...