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Showing posts with label Hyderabad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hyderabad. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

How the term 'Ganga Jamuni' symbolising communal harmony became controversial, invites ire online

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The term 'Ganga Jamuni' has been in vogue for a long time. It symbolized communal harmony or a composite cul...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

AIMIM's electoral footprint in India: Asaduddin Owaisi turning Hyderabad-based outfit into a pan-Indian political party

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From a local political outfit, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has increased its electoral footprint. Once a party in a tiny ...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

What language media, regional press need to do: For Urdu newspapers too, original reports from ground are the key for impact, survival

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi If a language newspaper carries news that is available elsewhere too, then there is no uniqueness.  It is seen as just...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Revolutionary freedom fighter Turrrebaz Khan and the soldiers who led attack on British Residency: Independence Movement's Martyrs in Hyderabad

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Tura Baz Khan alias Turrebaz Khan was the fearless revolutionary who led the audacious attack on British residency i...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

The history of communal riots in Aligarh, Hyderabad and Meerut: How violence stopped and intensity, frequency of killings came down

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The recent horrific killings in Delhi have once again brought alive memories of the brutality during communal ri...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Man who feeds hundreds of people daily says hunger has no religion: Communal Harmony Project-42

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi A man in Hyderabad is now known for running a free food campaign for the poor in the city. Azhar Maqsusi, is p...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Historic struggle of students in Hyderabad Central University: HCU students targeted for taking on establishment, resisting Saffron takeover

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The students of Hyderabad Central University (HCU) have been a thorn in the flesh of the current dispensation. The HRD ministry, the Se...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Vizarat Rasool Khan: Leading Indian Muslim educationist who set up 56 educational institutes, first women's medical college in country, is no more

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Indscribe Dr Vizarat Rasool Khan, who passed away in his native, Hyderabad, was a leading educationist and visionary who championed the...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Indians in Gulf countries: Book on Indian expatriates, their issues in Middle East

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For long, the Middle East, which is commonly termed as 'Gulf', has been considered an El Dorado for Indians.  The first wave of p...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Murderous attack on MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in Hyderabad

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The murderous attack on AIMIM second-in-command Akbaruddin Owaisi, the younger brother of MP Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi, gives a reflection ...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Mahlaqa Chanda: Forgotten Urdu poetess before Ghalib, her tomb gets facelift in Hyderabad

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, By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Mahlaqa Chanda had already compiled her first collection of poetry and attained fame when legendary Urdu poe...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Chillas of Hazrat Ghaus: Islamic shrines in Deccan

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A couple of years ago when I first visited Hyderabad, the chillas had caught my eye. In North India, I had never seen them nor heard about ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

My morning cuppas in Hyderabad: Idle walks & Ideal mornings

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I haven't taken a long leave for quite sometime and in such moments I fondly recall my days in Hyderabad: the leisurely walks, the morni...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

AIMIM turns 50: Hyderabad based political party AIMIM or Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's role in Hyderabad Deccan, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh politics

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The AIMIM, a political party based in Hyderabad, has completed fifty years of its existence and a big celebration was organised to mark th...
Monday, March 03, 2008

After Hyderabad, screening of Islamic movie stopped in Kolkata

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Al-Risalah, the first Hollywood movie on Islam, which has been dubbed in Urdu [Hindustani] and released in India, has been taken off theatre...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Sher Ali: The revolutionary Indian freedom fighter who assassinated the Viceroy

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Do you know that a Viceroy was killed on Indian soil during the freedom movement? Though many other revolutiona...
Monday, August 27, 2007

Hyderabad as it reflects Hindu-Muslim composite culture, unity: Why the City is the Terrorists' Target?

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If terrorists are targeting Hyderabad repeatedly, there must be a reason for them. No big city in India has such a multi-ethnic populati...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

MIM protest at Taslima Nasreen's press conference in Hyderabad: Ruckus sans reason

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The MLAs of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen [MIM] created ruckus at the Taslima Nasreen's press conference. The Bangladeshi author who ha...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Hyderabad, the last citadel of Urdu in India

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What's different about this photograph? The display boards in shops are in Urdu apart from English, like Akshay Jewellers as seen in pho...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Drinking Mecca Cola in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad Visit-II I heard about Mecca Cola, the alternative to US-based cola companies, a few years back but it was not until recently that...