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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
Art doesnt belong to a single faith, says Academy president
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Los Angeles, Feb 7 (PTI) Academy president Cheryl Boone...
Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary
Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet...
उस्ताद इमरत खान ने मोदी सरकार से मिलने वाले पद्म श्री सम्मान को लेने से किया इंकार
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मशहूर सितार एवं सुरबहार वादक उस्ताद इमरत खान ने...
For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence
Perhaps it’s time that we appreciate the exasperation that...
अहिंसा, हिन्दू-मुसलमान एका, छूआछूत खात्मा और गांधी जी का करामाती चरखा
गांधी जी के लिए चरखा अहिंसा, स्वराज्य, एकता की...
Russia decriminalises domestic violence
One step towards “traditional values” means two steps back...
Yoga isn’t an all-Hindu tradition – it has Buddhist, even Sufi, influences
Two scholars dipped into 100 texts, and found that...
Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna in Conversation With Nilanjana Roy
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This conversation with Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna was...
I was skeptical of the protests at Marina, it all changed when I witnessed it
People finally have become bulls to reaffirm their self-respect,...
‘We who Believe in Freedom cannot rest until it comes’
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