We attack each other on television; we gloat when a colleague is attacked or arrested; we have no empathy when journalists are jailed; we have…
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Category: INDIA
‘I am not a ‘doomsdayer’. Urdu has not merely survived but flourished. Urdu is not dead, or dying. It is still the language of the heart and soul of India’
No matter how sick at heart we might occasionally get, no matter how depressed – we see it as our self-appointed task to keep on…
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Echoes of Patriarchy: The Unseen Reign of Kashmir’s Elderly Women
The power of this dynamic, isn’t simple; it isn’t always gentle and can’t be justified through the lens of feminism. This power dynamic isn’t soft;…
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That mysterious force inside us…
What are these marks on the wall? A doodle? A diagram? Does thisinscrutable drawing, if we can call it one, say something? Is there a…
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Lampblack doodle and a detective connecting dots
‘I set the story in the 1940s. When one could still hear in the middle of the night the bells of mail-runners in the distance.…
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How Great can a Nation become?
When a State begins terrorizing its own citizens, how can one expect greatness from its rulers? Can regressive, dogmatic and dictatorial mindsets make a nation…
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‘There is a lot of misinformation about the new Waqf Amendment Bill’
A number of dargahs, graveyards and even mosques are such properties, and they face danger of being declared non-waqf Dr Shujaat Ali Quadri has been…
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Ranjini, Mahmoud, Rumeysa…
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student, wrote an opinion piece for the students’ magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the…
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Symphony of Flavours and Spice: The Pickle Makers of Kashmir
‘People love the rich flavors, the bright colours, the exquisite taste, that reminds them of home,” says Musaib. In Kashmir, pickles belong to an inherited…
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How Nerdy Software Engineer Vaniya Agrawal Stood Up to Microsoft Leadership for its ‘Complicity’ in Gaza Genocide
Indian American interrupted 50th Anniversary event featuring Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella, calling them “hypocrites,” and claiming that the company’s technology murdered 50,000…
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