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SPB–The Musical Genius
M Somasekhar This article was originally posted on June 5, 2020, but is being re-plugged due to the demise of the legend today (September 25). As he entered the Platinum…
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Muslim education in India: Need for private and public sector investment
By Frank F. Islam Eminent columnist Swaminathan A. Aiyar called upon Wakf boards and wealthy Muslims to finance the development of “a string of world-class education institutions” that would attract…
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Let’s hope Hindus stand up for Muslims!
Buran I wish RSS learnt something from it. Why are they poisoning the minds of their core voters by telling lies about Muslims? Only to get the 30% vote share…
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Is Jammu sentiment aligning with that of Kashmir’s?
Daneesh Majid A year gone by With plans underway for Prime Minister Modi to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the temple in Ayodhya tomorrow, there was clearly some symbolism in…
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India set for breaking new space horizons
New Delhi: India has taken a historic stride towards opening up its space sector for private participation with the creation of IN-SPACe. I have met many exuberant youngsters in the…
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Hyderabad State’s tryst with Colonial Culture
Salma Ahmed Farooqui Any study of the historical process of identity formation in pre-modern India treads on a delicate path surrounding religious identities that recognise others as different, or not…
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‘Be you ever so high, the Law is above you’
Shafeeq R. Mahajir Law: system of rules which a country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it enforces by imposition of penalties. Defined thus, law…
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British never owned any part of Hyderabad, says siasat.com reader Sethi
The article, Kothi and Abids in Hyderabad were ruled by Britain, not Nizam, which was published in siasat.com on July 2, a reader, Pankaj Sethi, has written a letter to the editor. …
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The MiDaS Touch
Shafeeq R. Mahajir Provision and safeguards for Backward Classes and especially for SCs & STs have been incorporated in the Constitution of India in the social, economic, political, educational, cultural…
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Usha Raman adds new dimensions to mass communication teaching
M Somasekhar In Journalism, it was not fashionable to do a doctorate in the 1980s and 1990s. A Master’s degree was considered an over qualification when we made our way…
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Emergency–A dark chapter in Indian democracy
Dasu Keshav Rao Amid continuing reports of media under pressure and fears of severe curbs on freedoms, a recall of the country’s worst phase of democracy seems in order for…
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How calendars have been fixed, re-fixed over centuries
Salma Ahmed Farooqui Chronological systems have not been easy to decipher. Especially for archaeologists, historians, archivists, collectors and authors dating a historical fact or artefact is a major exercise. Islamic…
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‘People’s politician’ Bhandaru Dattatreya
M Somasekhar As he turned 74 on June 12, Bhandaru Dattatreya, the Governor of Himachal,Pradesh, remains one of the very few real ‘People’s Representative Politicians’ in the country. Though, he…
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George Orwell’s 1984 activated
Qur’an, 7:179: They have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear… Bhagavad Gita, 9:14: Sattva binds through joy, rajas through action, O Bharata, while Tamas…
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Story of Osmania University Journalism School
Dasu Kesava Rao On a summer morning of 1954, father, elder brother and I were sitting at our living room window, overlooking Barkatpura chaman, and sipping coffee. I noticed a…
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Safoora Zargar and trial of Indian democracy
Aijaz Zaka Syed When the history of these extraordinary times is written, the BJP may go down as a ‘great leveller.’ It has succeeded in razing to the ground every…
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Nepal hitting at India, prompted by China?
Kingshuk Nag Most Indians consider Nepal as a country that is extremely close to India. Thus shock waves hit India when Nepal declared last week that the former was sitting…
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The rise and fall of Lakshmi Parvathi
Dasu Kesava Rao History is not without episodes of empires lost over a woman. Nearer time and home, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao realized this truth of history at great cost.…
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Hyderabad based pharma company may produce COVID vaccine soon
M Somasekhar Hyderabad: When Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced in May that a potential vaccine to prevent Coronavirus will come from Hyderabad by September, it was not a…
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Indian Muslims and Marriages
Syed Nayeemullah The author is based in Gulbaraga. Indian Muslims demonstrated their majority when their most beloved Ramadan was celebrate with less rigor in spite of it being watered down.…
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Protest of a poet
Mohammed Wajihuddin Eminent poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar who won the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award 2020 for his critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values…
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Karnataka: Mild tremors of dissidence in BJP
M. A. Siraj Bengaluru: Tremors, feeble though, of dissidence emerging from the lobby of sugar barons have rattled Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa. Last fortnight, Umesh Katti, MLA from Hukkeri…
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Dal Lake is serving as main vegetable market for Srinagar
Srinagar: The city amid COVID-19 lockdown and frequent disruption of national highway has only one lifeline for fresh vegetables that is in the interiors of Dal Lake. Vegetable vendors from…
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China has India in its Crosshairs, We Need to Stand Up
Lt General P.C.KATOCH China’s President Xi Jinping has stabbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the back, and this is not a first. Response by our Defence Minister was subdued and…
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Dear Prof Akhtarul Wasey and friends
Mohammed Wajihuddin As an ardent lover of Urdu, practitioner of journalism and a great admirer of Prof Wasey sahab, I read his article with great interest. There are valuable suggestions…
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World is being reset to accommodate unthinkable change
M. A. Siraj The humanity is on life-altering swings. Never in the past it had been so intrusively impacted by any catastrophe or calamity as has been witnessed in the…
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Celebrating Eid in Hyderabad–the mini India
M Somasekhar Hyderabad: Haleem, Sheer Khorma and good friendship. The month of Ramzan used to be a heady mix in my Hyderabad. Visit to the ‘Shoppers paradise’- the night markets…
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Diamond trade lured Persians and Turkic people to Deccan
Salma Ahmed Farooqui The tribe of Quraysh was in control of the sacred precincts called haram shareef in Makkah in the sixth century. On the basis of this supremacy, it drew a…
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Losing job at IE and joining Hindu, an interesting tale
Dasu Kesava Rao I was fortunate to be with The Indian Express (Hyderabad) during the Emergency (1975-1977) when it was at the peak of popularity. We junior reporters–I, Mahesh Vijapurkar and Amarnath…
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Stories of labour hanging between hunger, hope and gloom
Shaheen Nazar Santosh is a street vendor who used to sell bananas in Bhangel, a small semi-urban neighbourhood in UP’s Noida. But that was his story until the lockdown was…
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