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Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2024

Kashmiris open homes, mosques to give shelter to visitors stuck out in the open due to intense cold: Communal Harmony Project-59

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This is the latest news, as severe snowfall in the winter, caused a difficult situation for visitors in Kashmir. Nearly 2,000 vehicles got s...
Saturday, July 08, 2023

News to Noise: TV news era ending, viewers shun watching news on channels in India

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The era when people started their day, watching news on TV, has gone.  No longer, the families sit for the prime tim...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Muslim leader from Bengal and former Member of Parliament, Badrudduja, his life and times

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Freedom fighter and prominent leader late Badrudduja is recalled for his politics as well as his firm stand on issues ...
Friday, December 09, 2022

Stop right-wing bullies, stand with victims: Congress, secular parties must ask their wings and workers to get to streets against injustice

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By  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi  1. I respect Mr Jairam Ramesh sb but he blamed parties like AAP and AIMIM for Congress' defeat though Majlis ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

MYSTERY: Do you know population of Brahmins in India in crores, extrapolate on Census data

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Do you know what's the exact percentage of Brahmins in the country? Among the Upper Castes, Brahmins are the bigge...

Tipu Sultan: Great king who fought, defeated British and thus right-wing groups oppose him

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By Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Tipu Sultan, Sher-e-Mysore is among India's greatest kings and the only ruler apart from his father Hyder Ali, ...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

How race to 'break stories', create sensation destroys lives: False cases, stern sections, framing youths and implicating due to irresponsible journalism

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Most of us often read, how youths were jailed and after a decade or more, released. The need is to understand that how...
Sunday, June 06, 2021

Mulla Jan Mohammad: Prominent Muslim leader who played important role in post-independent era

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Mulla Jan Mohammad was among the leaders who played a vital role in post-partition era in India. He was a known pers...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Saving India: Political parties must confront, take stand against hate crime, vigilantism, lynching incidents before seeking Muslim votes

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The case of a youth in Jabalpur who was stripped, humiliated, beaten and later FIR registered against him, once again ...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Journalism in India: No fresh idea, why not do a cover story on 'Indian Muslims'

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  It's the age-old system in Indian journalism. For magazines, periodicals and even Sunday papers that needed a special story. If you do...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Transfer of population was complete in Punjab during partition: Muslim exodus and arrival of Hindus, Sikhs but not in Bengal

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Partition of India was a tragedy, one of the biggest manmade disasters that changed geography and caused suffering to ...
Friday, March 26, 2021

How religious composition and population percentage prompt right-wing to create communal polarization: Majority, Minority and Insecurities

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi If the religious minority constitutes around 10% of the total population of the city, right wing is not much active an...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Historical maps of India: Political map of British India, pre-partition India that included Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma in Urdu, English

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This is an old map, more than a century old. The map shows boundaries that existed much before partition of the Indian sub-continent. It sho...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

Fascinating Figures: Census report 1911, data over a century ago gives interesting insight about demographic and religious trends in India

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The latest Census for us is still 2011 Census, as the results of next count would take a few more years. The change wi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Partition of India: How migration differed from district to district in Uttar Pradesh, role of officials and politicians in controlling situation

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Just when country was partitioned, some regions saw major disturbances. There were apprehensions among people regardin...

10 points about safety and security regarding lifts in wake of mishaps: Elevators in residential colonies, localities and precautions

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  Shams Ur Rehman Alavi First, Chief Minister got stuck in a lift. Now, a former chief minister too got stuck where the was a mishap involvi...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Facing consequences for racist language in foreign countries: Indians must shun racism, avoid hate speech and learn to be sensitive

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi First, the two incidents--Rashmi Samant, the first Indian female president of Oxford students' union, had to apolo...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Magic formula behind BJP's popularity despite price rise, hike in cost of Petrol, LPG, unemployment or issues on the border

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Time and again, people wonder and discuss that why price rise, fuel hike, unemployment, mishandling of major issues, j...
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...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

America yet to elect first women president in 230 years, Asian countries chose female heads of states long back: Why no Women Prez in United States so far?

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It has taken 230 years. America has seen 45 presidents in history.   But not a single woman head of state, till now. That's stran...