Mohammed Wajihuddin
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M F Husain—I have not decided yet to sell his autograph yet
Yes Bank’s co-founder Rana Kapoor, currently cooling his heels in jail for a Rs 5000 crore fraud, has reportedly revealed to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that he was forced to buy a…
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When Aamir Subhani visited AMU
In the summer of 1987, I was vacationing in my village when the All India Radio included brief news in its 9 pm bulletin about Aamir Subhani topping that year’s Civil Services…
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Poet-journalist Faridoon Shahryar; a hotshot name in Bollywood
Faridoon Shahryar is four years younger to me. I am 50, he is 46. By the time I took baby steps in the world of print by writing letters to editors of…
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Budding scribes should read Instant History to develop journalism genes
“If you want to dig your feet deep in journalism, move with a dogged determination.” This is the mantra some of us were told in journalism school in the 1990s. Why did…
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Reading Shashi Tharoor: If you want to be remembered write a novel
By Mohammed Wajihuddin Sometime in the early 1990s I got issued The Great Indian Novel. It was Shashi Tharoor’s debut novel published in 1989, from Patna’s iconic Khuda Bakhsh Library. With limited…
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Remembering Syed Ahmad, eminent economist and Urdu dictionary compiler
Mohammed Wajihuddin October 30 is the first death anniversary of noted economist, former head and chairman of the Department of Economics at McMaster University, Canada, Prof Syed Ahmad. An alumnus of Jamia…
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Reclaiming the lost voice of Sufis
Mohammed Wajihuddin In the late 1990s I landed up a reporter’s job with Mumbai edition of The Asian Age. Since I was young, raw and ready to do whatever came my way, the…
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Moral burdens of the liberal Muslims
Zahid-e-tang-nazar ne mujhe kafir jaanaAur kafir yeh samajhta hai musalman hoon main— Allama Iqbal(To the narrow-minded Muslims I am a kaifr/And the communal non-Muslims think I am a fanatic Muslim) The dilemma…
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Yusuf Khan was scared of Dilip Kumar
Mohammed Wajihuddin The massive auditorium at Mumbai’s Nehru Centre was packed. The annual mushaira which had an impressive list of participating poets, including Ahmed Faraz from Pakistan, was yet to start. Poetry…
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Revival of ancient south Mumbai tank brings back pond animals
Mohammed Wajihuddin The turtles and the fish are perhaps feeling a bit crammed. The small tanks which temporarily hold them are no substitute for their bigger habitat, the ancient tank or pond…
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Fear factor is being drilled into the minds of minorities
Mohammed Wajihuddin In the course of her continuing friction with the Centre, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee recently used a slightly changed version of a dialogue from the 1970s’ blockbuster Sholay. Exhorting…
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Marriages are made in Heaven but they have to pass multiple tests on Earth
Mohammed Wajihuddin It seems anachronistic to talk about a wedding anniversary in the devastating times of deaths and funerals. But life must go on. Negativity must not chain us, so much so…
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Don’t taint the glorious Ganga
Mohammed Wajihuddin Legendary director Raj Kapoor’s Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) was an important film. And its runaway success was not because of the two scenes which had the puritans jumping in…
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Prof. Shakeel Samdani–why were you in such a hurry?
Mohammed Wajihuddin The meeting was at the common room which we used mostly to watch the weekly Chitrahar on the Television set and occasionally to host important guests. But that evening the…
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Stop Central Vista Project, build hospitals
Mohammed Wajihuddin Amidst India’s worst health crises, the Centre is coming up with a powerful politician’s pet project–the Central Vista Redevelopment Project (CVRP)–in the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi. To be prepared at…
