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Colonialism through Journalism: Establishing, appropriating, otherising and suppressing voice of locals through 'media power'

Craft of Urdu Ghazal, Nazm: Meter, Prosody and charm of couplets vis-a-vis poetry sans meter

Vilification of Muslims as a political strategy: Majoritarian tendencies and obsession with minority in Indian society

Why fewer government jobs, lack of recruitment doesn't anger youth in India: Electoral success of Hindutva politics in India

Sharib Kausar Kakorvi: Urdu poet who mastered calligraphy, composed chronograms and also wrote ghazals in Persian

Urdu Podcast in India: Urdu Literature Radio brings excerpts from eminent Urdu authors in audio form to break script barrier, take text to more people

Police Reforms in India: Reasons that neither police atrocities go down, nor there is real intent to reform policing in India

93-year old Hindu woman lived with Muslim family for 40 years, finally gets reunited with kin: Communal Harmony Project-54

From Hinduism to Hindutva: How fundamentalism changed religion and society in India

Dealing with 'dissent' in democracies: 'Discredit, defame, destroy' is the strategy but a bad one

Way ahead for Muslims-1: Be a change maker, stop negativity, take up leadership role in India

End of Empathy: How deaths in lynchings evoke little reaction, response in India

Dirty secrets of Indian media: How newspapers cleverly mould public opinion that eventually hurts citizens, country