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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community
Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure
“All humanists, rationalists and fighters for social and economic justice must unite to fight the usurpers of our democracy and our history”
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Suhana, Nahid and the Curse of Muslim Intolerance
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In India, more men than women would like to...
How a gurudwara in Pakistan’s Nankana Sahib preserved and promoted Punjabi for centuries
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