By Kritika Sharma Controversial TV personality Tarek Fatah was heckled at Urdu festival Jashn-e-Rekhta, recently held in the national Capital. The Pakistani writer who went to the festival as an audience member was attacked by a group of young men, who objected to his presence at the festival venue on Sunday. While the organisers of...
October 18, 2025
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February 21, 2017September 18, 2025Islam
“सूफ़ी भी होते हैं पक्के मुसलमान”
इम्तियाज़ हसन ‘सूफ़ीवाद’ या ‘तसव्वुफ़’ एक तरह का इस्लामिक रहस्यवाद है. हालांकि ग़ैर-मुस्लिम समाज के लोग इसे इस्लाम का ही एक पंथ या धारा मानने की ग़लती कर बैठते हैं. ‘सूफ़ीवाद’ इस्लाम का एक पहलू है. सूफ़ीपंथी शिया और सुन्नी दोनो फ़िरक़ों या इस्लाम मज़हब के मानने वाले दूसरे समुदायों में भी मिल सकते हैं....
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February 16, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Making Iran’s revolution great again
Donald Trump is helping Iran’s radicals. THE ritual chants of “Death to America” had grown fainter in recent years. The feverish crowds had thinned. Some demonstrators seemed to wave Uncle Sam banners less to jeer America than to cheer it. Yet thanks to Donald Trump this year’s annual rally to commemorate Islamic Revolution Day on...
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February 13, 2017September 18, 2025Special Column
12 Year Old Questions today’s parents Role in upbringing of their child
By Shifa Faiz Bangi Recently a pic of a Telangana small school boy who was standing in the assembly in half sleep with chapati in his pocket went viral in social media and Shot the debate among child conscious people. A twelve girl from Solapur too took the notice of it and tried to say...
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February 10, 2017September 18, 2025Education
Inspirational contribution of a adolescent boy towards family
By Imran Inamdar & Parveez Nida Pune (Maharshtra) Educating children in dire conditions ,battling for good married life and struggle for favorable financial status are the problems which thousands of women face and win the battle against bad conditions and made her children iconic personalities through education. But this is the story of a 21...
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February 6, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion
Anger is more dangerous than biological weapon!
By Mohamad Shafi Anger is the name of outrageous emotion, it is a concealed weapon that demolishes the noblest of characters, it always comes for a short while but destroys the deep relationship, thick friendship, it spreads the odour of hatred amongst people with whom they sit and spend most of the time, humans are...
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February 6, 2017September 18, 2025Special Column
Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary
By Sharjeel Imam and Saquib Salim Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet by many progressive circles within the sub-continent. The Communist Parties of India have celebrated Faiz’s poetry, and have used his verses to forge new slogans to further their propaganda. The major left parties regularly use Faiz’s poetry according to their...
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February 4, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Algeria’s independence: The forgotten protests that forged a nation
By the end of 1957, France claimed political dissent in Algieria had been eradicated. Yet soon the Algerian people were to take to the streets to reclaim their independence in a chapter that remains largely unknown On 11 December 1960, three years after the Battle of Algiers, large-scale popular uprisings overcame French military oppression and changed the...
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February 2, 2017September 18, 2025Education, Opinion, Special Column
Thank Colonial Britain for These 7 Present Day Crises in the World
The sun might have set on the formidable British empire, but not on its legacy. Many of the present day conflicts around the world have deep-seated links with British colonial polices, their mismanagement of the process of independence, and the legacy they left behind in law, by drawing up unviable borders and by migrating cheap...
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January 27, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Why does our country need a constitution?
By Mohamad Shafi Each one of us knows very well that our Constitution was adopted on 26 November1949, however it came into force on 26 January 1950, here a simple question strikes our mind that each community has a religious book, whether we talk about Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists, each of them have...