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Review: In BM Zuhara’s new memoir, an anxious child questions aristocracy

“By the time she had grown sharper,…, she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable- images and echoes kept for her in the childish…
Hyderabad State: Let’s remember the people for a moment

September 17 feels different this year. Different terms – integration, liberation, surrender – are being used to depict how the curtains came down on the mighty State of Hyderabad. Different dates are…

Revisiting the saga of Hyderabad State’s integration into India with a fresh perspective

The political parties and social organizations have their own version of politics construed as history. Disciples of history today are subjected to political needs. Ironically, Hyderabad’s history and its integration with Indian…
Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf is no more but his controversial career will not be forgotten

Former cricket umpire Asad Rauf of Pakistan passed away due to a cardiac arrest on Thursday in Lahore where he was running a business. He was 66 years old and had been…
Asaf Jahi Nizams – The real architects of modern Hyderabad

Ahmed Shareef Askander Hyderabad – The city of Pearls & Diamonds decades before the arrival & boom of silicon industry was worldwide known for its wealth & riches. The credit for laying the…
Consent a cause of worry? 65% young Hyderabadis hesitate in asking

Hyderabad: Tinder, the world’s most popular dating app, in a recent survey surrounding conversations regarding consent among young Indian adults stated that more than 65% of Hyderabadis have little or no confidence…
Hyderabad: Table Tennis giant-killer in the making?

Hyderabad: Satya Aspathi loves to punch above her weight. The sprightly paddler recently knocked out older rivals to clinch four titles, all in higher age groups. Even 2022 Commonwealth Games mixed doubles…

Stunning growth of tourism in Kashmir fills strategic gaps

Tourism in the post-Article 370 abrogation has emerged as a strategic asset for stakeholders in Kashmir as more than two million arrivals till ending August have changed the way tourism was looked…
Muslims arrested, Hindus untouched for violence in MP town

Bhopal: Anti- Muslim violence has come to light from Udaipura town in Raisen district Madhya Pradesh, during the Ganesh idol immersion procession. The incident took place on the night of September 10,…
Sept 13 1948, Operation Polo: When the Army marched into Hyderabad

Hyderabad: As the British formally partitioned India and left on August 15, 1947, the whole country rejoiced. However, princely states that functioned semi-independently under the British crown, had not been fully integrated.…
My Father Baliah author YB Satyanarayana discusses Dalits under Nizams

Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana have been involved in a war of words over a soon-approaching anniversary of Operation Polo, the military offensive…
Don’t fall prey to religious bigotry; come out of WhatsApp University, says Ravish Kumar

Hyderabad: Love is bitter and sweet. But which is more sweet – the bitterness or the sweetness? When he penned his first book – Ishq Mein Shahar Hona, he thought there is love…
Sep 13, 2022: Marking activist Umar Khalid’s two years in jail

September 13, 2022, marks two years since Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar and student activist Umar Khalid was imprisoned under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Khalid has been accused of…
PM’s hypocrisy in removing symbols of colonialism exposed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is giving his subjects some lessons on Colonialism and seeking their adulation by removing some names that he thinks are symbols of colonialism and slavery of India. He…
Operation Polo: Remembering it would open old wounds

Hyderabad: Come September and the political temperature rises in Hyderabad. What generates heat is the million dollar question: was Hyderabad liberated or merged? Like the who came first, chicken- or egg-conundrum the…