Mohammed Wajihuddin
- Featured News
Hold back your bulldozers, Mr. Nitish Kumar, don’t erase KBL, a living piece of learning
Mohammed Wajihuddin My London-based friend Shamsuddin Agha has sent me a video. In the viral video retired IPS officer Amitabh Kumar Das is seen protesting the proposed demolition of a portion of…
- Obituaries
Fatma Zakaria, a noble soul passes away
Mohammed Wajihuddin It was December 2001. I was at Dr Rafiq Zakaria’s beautiful, book-lined study at Cuffe Parade house in South Mumbai. In that spacious room Allama Iqbal vied for space with…
- Opinions
When Maulana Azad played sitar at the Taj
Mohammed Wajihuddin Freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958) spent close to 10 years in British prisons. Out of these, three years (1942-1945) were spent at Ahmed Nagar Fort. The faint-hearted prisoners…
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Sir Syed and his family
Mohammed Wajihuddin Sir Syed had two sons–Syed Hamid and Syed Mahmood and a daughter Ameena. She died young. Syed Hamid had one daughter Ahmadi Begum. Syed Mahmood had one son, Sir Ross…
- News
Adeeb’s resentment is justified: How could a devotee of Gandhi’s killer be admitted in the Congress?
Mohammed Wajihuddin Former Rajya Sabha member and proud Aligarian or alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Mohammad Adeeb recently recorded a video that has gone viral. In the video Adeeb has directed…
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When Sir Syed raised stick on his boys
Mohammed Wajihuddin Lessons learnt in childhood stays with you till the end. It happened with Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) too. Once in his adolescence, Sir Syed’s mother turned him out of…
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Pilgrimage to Aligarh
Mohammed Wajihuddin The sun on a lazy Sunday afternoon in February at Aligarh felt soft and soothing on the skin. I chatted with a caretaker at the guest house while Dr Rahat…
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I am 50 Not Out; grew up facing taunts and jokes because of my cleft lip
Fifty (50) is an important milestone in a man’s life. Though seemingly it doesn’t make much difference as the sun outside is the same and people around me are as cheerful or…
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Begin to embrace poor this New Year
Mohammed Wajihuddin It is the evening before Christmas, that time of the year when happiness is spread and good wishes are exchanged. I am seated at a Cafe Coffee Day joint, a…
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As AMU turns 100, Mumbai reflects on its historic bonds
Mohammed Wajihuddin An inscription in Urdu and English at Sir Syed Hall, one of the earliest hostels at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), has an interesting piece of information. It states that in 1907, philanthropist…
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Humanity loses a gem–Undre was Sufi in the garb of a doctor
Mohammed Wajihuddin How many deaths can one afford to mourn in a week? Can a person write obituaries back-to-back and still remain sane? Two days after I mourned death of a driver…
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Death of a driver: Dreams of Sunil for decent living crushed under truck wheels
Mohammed Wajihuddin He was not a blood brother. But human relations are created outside the bloodline too. My relation with Sunil Kumar was created neither at the college/university campus nor at any…
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Mumbai tailor’s ‘little’ daughters walk tall with big dreams of becoming doctors
Mohammed Wajihuddin For years their diminutive stature made some wonder if they would do anything meaningful with their lives, but the Idrisi sisters—Zubaida (23) who is 3.5-foot tall and Humaira (22) who…
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Maulana Kalbe Sadiq believed in spreading love among all communities
Mohammed Wajihuddin I don’t remember when I first met senior Shia scholar and vice-president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, who passed away at 83 in Lucknow on…
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When Iqbal fell in love
November 9 is the birth anniversary of noted poet Allama Iqbal (1877-1938). In 1905 the Sialkot-born, Lahore-based poet came to Bombay to set sail for England for higher studies. The visit to…
- Top Stories
Is Tejaswi turning the tables on Nitish?
To understand which way the wind in Bihar elections is blowing, don’t believe the screaming anchors of big news channels. Turn to tiny “start-ups” or the citizen journalists who take their mobile…
- India
Mohib Ali Nasser– a caring friend who looked after the community
Jane wale kabhi nahin aateJane wale ki yaad aati hai(The departed never return Their memory lingers on) A couple of years ago Mohib Ali Nasser’s wife asked him to compile a list…
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Sir Syed, we will remember your contribution at every turn of time
When I heard that Shoyeb Aftab from Orissa had topped the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (MEET) 2020 (the 18-year-old boy secured 720/720 in the medical entrance exam and created history) I…
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The Chai-Biscuit journos value ethics more than their cappuccino counterparts
On Thursday (September 24) a group of Television journalists standing outside Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office in Mumbai were seen exchanging blows among themselves. Reason? Two journalists of a channel who had…
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Mumbai will miss its biryani king
It was September or October, 2001. I was newly married and had moved to Mira Road, a far western Mumbai suburb, from Mahim which is part of the island city. I don’t…
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Akbar was humane and is accessible to today’s tumultuous India
It requires moral courage to write sympathetically about the Mughals in today’s time of hyperactive nationalism. To paint the medieval Muslim rulers, including the Mughals, in positive light is akin to agitate…
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Maligning Muslims without knowing their role in Freedom Movement
A huge regret in my late father’s life was that I never took the Civil Services Exam. Like most middle-class parents in Bihar, he had pinned high hopes on me. And for…
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I walked out of a bright and sunny hospital, COVID-free
It came as a common flu. Not unfamiliar with minor malaises such as headache, mild fever and body ache, I saw the neighbourhood physician in the hope that the “viral fever” would…
