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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Promoting, project harmony, giving a sense of belonging and representation to all is must: Communal Harmony Project-58

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi For any nation or society, it's important to have unity, cohesiveness, shared culture and a sense of belonging amo...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

How mass media was used to 'otherize' Muslims and change Indian society: Culture, propaganda and Hindutva

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi It was in 1991, a family I knew well.  The lady said--'Saddam Hussein is right'. 'Muslims should live like...
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...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Can't Dainik Bhaskar journalists be more careful: Hindi newspapers must shun propaganda that distorts history and learn to fact-check

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi It was just a photograph with a headline and caption. But it was published prominently in a paper with a huge circulat...
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...