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Let us look beyond temples, mosques
As I sat at the neighbourhood café (in Mumbai) this December 6 afternoon, sipping black coffee, TV memories of another December 6, 32 years ago, flooded back. The feeling can be summed…
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When Bombay beckoned me
It was September 8, 1995. As the Frontier Mail (rechristened Golden Temple Mail Express in 1996) trundled along two platforms before stopping at Mumbai Central station, my anxiety grew. All kinds of…
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Tu shahin hai…Mumbai man Fakhi loves to conquer mountains
Did poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal have a young man like Imran Fakhi in mind when he penned this hugely motivational couplet? Fakhi has just returned after successfully conquering Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain peak…
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Hindus and their temples in Bangladesh should be protected
While we must condemn the attack on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, we should also appreciate the efforts of individuals and organisations protecting Hindu places of worship, life and property in the country…
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Ram Narayan, an expert in Persian has written a commentary on Shahnama
It is raining heavily in Mumbai again. Having written an article for my newspaper (The Times of India) on Saturday afternoon, I took a light lunch and dozed off. It was actually…
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Why is Fareed Zakaria happy that his father died 15 years ago?
It is not every day that veteran Indian-American journalist, author and political thinker Fareed Zakaria gives interviews. He hosts a widely watched show on CNN, writes books and columns that evoke debates…
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Newspapers are my addiction, my tonic to live
Dus baje raat mein so jate hain khabrein sunkar/Aankh khulti hai toh akhbar talab karte hain I cannot remember how many times my wife has threatened to cut down on my daily…
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Zafar Agha, from where shall we bring someone who could be said he is like you?
I first learned about Zafar Agha through his stories in India Today magazine in the 1990s. Since I had begun reading newspapers and periodicals voraciously, India Today too figured in the list…
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Khalid Ansari, ex-owner-editor of Inquilab and Mid Day returns to Mumbai for charity work
Over three decades ago, I knocked at the office door of Khalid Ansari’s son Tarique Ansari (Tarique Bhai) in Mumbai. Then Khalid Ansari Sahab was too big for a young Bihari boy…
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How does the minority character give AMU its unique identity?
The issue of Aligarh Muslim University’s minority character is currently being spiritedly fought in the Supreme Court. I am not a legal expert. I as an alumnus and beneficiary of the founder…
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A teacher par excellence
I was in grade 7 or 8 when Wasi Ahmed Shamsi sahab joined B D Y High School as an Urdu and Persian teacher. Tucked away on the bank of a pond…
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It is dogged persistence that pays off, writer tells young students
Journalists thrive on bad news. Like vultures, they feast on dead bones. However, journos too are humans. If they move around with a microscope looking for malfunctioning municipal facilities, they also celebrate…
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Of Hyderabad Hurricane, Iqbal’s poetry and biryani invitation
When I saw, heard of, and read about the exploits of Mohammed “Miya Magic” Siraj at a cricket stadium in Sri Lanka, I remembered a part in one of Iqbal’s famous couplets.…
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History repeats itself at K C College
My wife, daughter Sara and I braved the heavy downpour last week to reach Kishinchand Chellaram College, commonly known as K C College, at Churchgate, Mumbai. We were there for Sara’s admission…
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Of pains of losing a homeland and celebrations of human bond
When the Hindu Sindhis lost Sindh, their ancestral homeland, in the holocaust of partition (1947), they lost more than a piece of land. The sufferers were not just men and women butchered…
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