It all began as local outrage over the Waqf Board’s installation of the Ashoka emblem on an inauguration stone at Hazratbal, one of the most revered religious sites in Kashmir.
When the case was reopened, her father went through every file, every yellowed newspaper clipping, every document he had gathered over the years. That night, he didn't sleep.
Ziya Us Salam and Anand Mishra launched their book 'The Lion of Naushera', at the IIC in Delhi. Hamid Ansari, Farooq Abdullah, and Manoj Jha were part of the panel.
‘Believer’s Dilemma’, is the the second part of Abhishek Choudhary’s biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In it, he covers the former PM’s life from 1977 to his death in 2018.
For many Muslims, the message from this Martyrs’ Day is that it doesn’t matter who the community votes for, Kashmir’s identity and history will be decided by Hindu nationalist power, not their democratic choices.
MS Golwalkar deeply cared for those displaced by Partition and strongly opposed calling them ‘refugees’. When someone used the term, he said, “This nation belongs to everyone."
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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