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Mian Maqdoom Shah shrine, Mumbai’s Mahim Durgah & the December Urs

I saw quite a few processions going towards the Mahim dargah in Mumbai for the annual Urs celebration of the Muslim saint last evening. A lot of colour, not...

Is this Desperation or Worse: Dainik Jagran and the UP Polls, 2017

    For the last two days, as many of us,...

Ravidas Jayanti: Remembering the Shoemaker Saint who broke through the Caste Barrier

The acceptability of the likes of Kabir and Raidas...

Art doesnt belong to a single faith, says Academy president

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...

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...

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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...

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