Abdussalam Puthige
| Abdussalam Puthige (A.S. Puthige) | |
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| Born | 2 April 1964 Ganjimutt, Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Language | English, Kannada, Urdu, Beary, |
| Nationality | India |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | SDM Law College, Mangalore |
| Genre | Present |
| Notable works |
Towards Performing Da'wah Kannada Translation of the holy Quran, English Translation of Allama Iqbal's Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa(ISBN ) |
| Notable awards | Transparency International Award 2009 |
| Children | 4 (1 son and 3 daughters) |
| Relatives | Abdul Ahad IPS (Brother) |
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Towards Performing Da'wah Kannada Translation of the holy Quran,
Abdussalam Puthige is the Editor-in-Chief of Varthabharathi, a Kannada daily Newspaper, published from Mangalore the coastal city of Karnataka and Bangalore, the state capital. The first issue of Vartha Bharathi hit the stands on 29 August 2003 from Mangalore. The Bangalore edition was launched later, on 29 August 2006.
Born in 1964 in Ganjimutt, a small village of Dakshina Kannada district where his father Maulana Muhammed Shafi, a theologian was working as Imam of a Masjid. He went to school in Bailur, Adi-Udupi and Udupi. He completed his graduation under ICE, University of Madras and later pursued studies in Law at SDM law College, Mangalore. In the meantime he chose journalism as his profession and began his career as a sub editor in a Kannada weekly magazine in Mangalore. He studied Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Islamic theology and Muslim History under his father Maulana Shafi Saheb and later under Moulana Sayyed Yunus Saheb.
During his career as a journalist, apart from reporting and writing his own articles, he translated many Urdu and English books into Kannada language. He was one of the members of the committee that edited the Kannada translation of Urdu work 'Thalkhees Thafheemul Quran' titled 'Qur'an Vyakhyana'. He has authored a few books in Kannada and English. His most famous English work, Towards Performing Da'wah, was published in UK by The International Council for Islamic Information (ICII), Leicester.
In 1996, Mr. Puthige along with his associate Mr. Yaseen Malpe, launched Madhyama Kendra (Media Center), Bangalore, which is a well known institution in the State today. Its principal objective is to educate the masses on Media, Mass communication and related topics. He is the director of Institute of Media Studies, Bangalore that has conducted several studies on the prevailing trends, bias and prejudices in the mainstream Media, focusing particularly on the misrepresentation, under representation and negative stereotyping of various communities in the regional Kannada Media.
He was inspired by Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty, who, in September 1984, had launched a short lived Kannada Daily newspaper Mungaru that had employed and trained a considerable number of journalists from Backward castes, Dalits and Minorities, in contrast to most other newspapers in the state that were, and still remain, heavily dominated by the upper castes. Mungaru sought to focus on news and stories related to these marginalised communities. Puthige has dealt with this subject in a widely published interview titled 'The Muslim Kannadiga' by scholar and researcherYoginder Sikand.
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