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PFI to fight its battle “legally and democratically” says its TN President
Chennai: Popular Front of India (PFI) Tamil Nadu unit President Mohamed Shaik Ansari has said there is no need to write the judgment prematurely on the arrests and detentions made by the…
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Indian diaspora becoming vanguards of assertive Hindutva
There are ominous signs that the Indian diaspora community is asserting the aggressive brand of Hindutva identity in the countries of their wellbeing. The Hindus- Muslim communal clashes in Leicester, UK, Hindu…
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Athar Siddiqui breaks away from tradition and pens some highly evocative sketches
By Shafey Kidwai The unprecedented acceptance of monolingualism has put a big question mark on the existence of numerous languages through which people stitch up a warm social rapport and seek to…
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National champion Sreeja denied prize money; Telangana government must ensure justice
Hyderabad’s pride, table tennis player Sreeja Akula who became the first table tennis player from Hyderabad to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, is now running from pillar to post…
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Mohan Bhagwat’s Madrasa visit: Is RSS changing its stance?
Zafar Agha Could you a few days ago imagine the RSS chief visiting a mosque? It was unthinkable to guess such a visit some time ago. But Mohan Bhagwat broke the jinx…
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Confusing political narratives ahead of Assembly polls in J&K leave people confused
A lot of guesswork is going on as to when the Assembly elections will be held in Jammu and Kashmir, a large and majestic state, now reduced to Union Territory, and ironically that too…
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The pearl that connected Hyderabad and Basra
The pearl associated with the moon was one of Hyderabad’s prized commodities of trade in the 19th century. The ‘pearl boom’ years—1850 to 1930—was a time when about 4000 to 5000 pearls…
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What can Unite India: ‘Hindu Spiritualism or ‘Unity in Diversity’?
Sudheendra Kulkarni, ex-aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in his piece (‘Reach out for Bharat Jodo’, IE, September 12,) while welcoming the Yatra, is critical of the yatra for it…
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India, the largest exporter of manpower, does not have a migration policy
Last year (2021-22), India received $ 89 billion worth of foreign exchange (Forex) from NRIs. This is 3 percent of the country’s GDP. The population of NRIs worldwide is 2.5 crore. Most…
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When a wish gets fulfilled
A famous dialogue of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan from the film Om Shanti Om goes: “Kehte hain agar kisi cheez ko dilse chaho toh puri kainaat usse tumse milane ki koshish…
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Guntur’s Kollur mine: Story of Kohinoor’s most probable home
Kohinoor changes yet another pair of hands with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, its owner for the last 70 years. King Charles III inherited the world’s most coveted diamond from his…
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Motivational speaker playing tennis without a net
A couple of weeks back listening to a motivational speaker at an educational merit award function in the city the American bard Robert Frost’s quote,” playing tennis without a net” popped out…
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MMA battles lack charisma of Khabib; he was like Muhammad Ali of boxing
Ever since he left the MMA circuit, the absence of Khabib Nurmagomedov has been sorely felt. No one has been able to replace the charismatic Khabib in performance as well as in…
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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…
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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…
