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Doctor’s note on World Unani Day: How to achieve disease resistance?
Dr. Sayed Muhammad Anas, an award winning Unani physician writes on World Unani Day.
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Five myths about partition of British India
Navtej K Purewal, SOAS, University of London and Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS, University of London
This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the...
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Mumbai’s Manish Market: Shops of intricacy, imperviousness, inclusion
Slimy floors from accumulated compost of generations, shafts of sunlight filtering through, with Mumbai’s most ubiquitous crows and fattest rats in town with vicious cats chasing them around, Crawford...
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They removed my hijab
Dr Zoya Ayesha
Went in for theinterview,but didn’t face anystrict view;my heart was leapingwith joy,naively thinking myHijab didn’t annoy.
Joined from the nextday,not wanting anyfurther delay;debuted in colourclothes with Hijab,oblivious to...
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Remembering Narayan Debnath
A drawing board, a few brushes, a bottle of black ink, that was all Narayan Debnath needed to ignite the imaginations of generations of young Bengali readers with comic...
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Demonization of dissent
It is another big reminder of the fact that if you are an Indian Muslim, you have to pay a price because your identity acts as an albatross around your neck.
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Shameful Similitude: How each day has become 6 December
Muslims in India receive no fair treatment by government and law-making agencies. Each day is a struggle for a dignified existence in a so-called civilised society with laws formulated with an intent of making life harder for them.
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Listen to ‘the other Latif’
Radiolab reporter Latif Nasser’s investigative radio documentary series, ‘The Other Latif’ revisits Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, the 18-year-old America’s souvenir of human rights abuse, through a personal history of...
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Sedition laws: Penal provisions or political weapons?
Sedition is nothing but a political tool that is always used by the governments to create deter in the minds of a critical thinker. A large number of cases of sedition exemplifies the frivolous use of this provision. This law has more cons than pros and has the potential to be misused and therefore, it is necessary that this law should be abolished in India the way it has happened in Britain.
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Remembering Hashimpura massacre
May 22 marks the commemoration of 1987 Hashimpura massacre in which 42 Muslims were shot dead by Uttar Pradesh police force. 16 personals of Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC)...
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