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Mughal Emperors Played Holi And Called It Eid-e-Gulabi
Amir Khusro And Other Muslim Poets Composed Beautiful Verses On Holi; Now It is Being Weaponised
A Fast & Penitence: 72 hours of Love & Sorrow to fellow Muslims, pride in My Moghul heritage
This powerful Video Statement that takes just 36 plus minutes to listen to listen to and just ten minutes to read is real India’s response to what the author, Suranya Aiyar
Three hundred Ramayans
The epic story’s spectacular journey through the ages: An extract from The Collected Essays of AK Ramanujan
Meeras Mahal: A Journey Through Kashmir’s Timeless Heritage
SOPORE: In a picturesque corner of north Kashmir’s Sopore...
Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Shamil, شامِل, to walk together is to live together
The Religious Diversity Walk organised through the World Heritage Week in Ahmedabad by a city-based new platform called Saanjhi Virasat (Composite heritage) was facilitated by Bhavna Ramrakhiani and Jitendra Singh Rajput
Karnataka: A sudden heart attack takes away Sheikh Jaleel, Nadaswaram player
A lived examples of generational syncretic tradition of coastal Karnataka (Udipi), Shaikh Jaleel, passed away on Monday, November 13 following a heart attack
Diwali has been celebrated by Muslims for centuries
Syncretism of Diwali- How Mughal emperors celebrated Diwali and contemporary Muslims celebrate today
Epics Journeys—How the Ramayana sailed to faraway lands, Indonesia, Thailand and more
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It was trade and scholarship, conquest and exchanges that took our epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata across the seas, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea onto the shores of South-eastern Asian countries: Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Closer home, we see some influences also in Myanmar.
Once Upon an India — reminiscence at Ganesh Chaturthi
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…and then in the middle of the school year, just like that, it would be time for the festival of the Elephant-headed God!
Sanskrit & the democracy of language
The claim to “save” Sanskrit is nothing but part of a manipulative conspiracy to limit and control languages under the canopy of Hindutva
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