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Dangers of communal polarisation
9 Oct 2015 2:50 AM ISTHaving witnessed the grisly news of the Mohammed Akhlaq’s killing in Dadri via media, I am reminded of Ameer Khusro, the inspired Sufi poet of...
Spirituality, sacrifice and Eid-uz-Zuha
17 Oct 2013 1:54 AM ISTWhat is sacrifice? A mother sacrifices her sleep for her children. A father sacrifices all his comfort for his son. Prophet Mohammed himself has been...
Ghalib neglected in death, defeated in life
18 Feb 2013 7:06 AM IST‘Koi virani si virani hai/Dasht ko dekh ke ghar yaad aaya’ (It is desolation personified/ I saw the wilderness and remembered my abode) wrote...
Ghalib’s tomb, house lie forlorn on 144th death anniversary
16 Feb 2013 6:24 AM ISTKoi virani si virani hai/Dasht ko dekh ke ghar yaad aaya (It is desolation personified/ I saw the wilderness and remembered my abode) wrote Ghalib...
Gandhi, the global citizen
30 Jan 2013 4:03 PM ISTGandhi, the Mahatma, was truly a citizen of the world though he worked for the freedom of the Indian nation from foreign yoke. Though a Brahmin by...
Valley lies uneasy as security intensified
19 Jan 2013 6:59 AM ISTFear has gripped village council members across the Kashmir Valley in the wake of the killing of one and a murderous attack on another elected ...
‘Don't force Rahul, let him choose’
19 Jan 2013 6:56 AM ISTAs speculation remains rife on Rahul Gandhi being given a bigger role in the Congress at its strategy meet here, senior leaders in the party said...
Katie desperate for more babies
18 Jan 2013 6:37 AM ISTFormer model Katie Price has reportedly married her boyfriend Kieran Hayler because she’s desperate to have more children. The 34-year-old tied...
Carey felt unsafe on American Idol sets
10 Jan 2013 5:53 AM ISTSinger Mariah Carey says she felt unsafe on the sets of American Idol after fellow judge Nicki Minaj allegedly threatened to shoot her. Carey, 42,...
JLo turns geeky
1 Jan 2013 5:15 AM ISTJennifer Lopez went from looking sexy to studious in a pair of thick-rimmed black glasses recently. She was out on a casual outing with her twins and...
Tarantino to get lifetime achievement award
1 Jan 2013 5:12 AM ISTFilmmaker Quentin Tarantino will be conferred a lifetime achievement award at the International Rome Film Festival. The 49-year-old filmmaker will be...
The plight of displaced Pakistani Hindus
31 Aug 2012 8:11 AM ISTAkram Kumar, a Hindu labourer from Sindh, Pakistan and now newly settled at Dera Baba Dhooni Das Ashram in Majnu ka Tila in Delhi, states he will...