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The Far Pavillions author Kaye’s association with the fire-ravaged Secunderabad Club
Zeenath Khan The Secunderabad Club website boasts that M. M. Kaye, author of the acclaimed The Far Pavilions, painted the murals on the walls of its mixed lounge https://www.secunderabadclub.org/the-mixed-lounge-fresco/ Mary Margaret Kaye was born…
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Gorakhpur ticket slashes Yogi’s hope of becoming a national Hindutva icon
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa In just one masterstroke the BJP national leadership has grounded Yogi Adityanath’s national political ambitions. By denying him the election ticket to contest from Ayodhya or Mathura…
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Secunderabad Club: Time to resurrect the phoenix
Sajjad Shahid The euphoria of Sankranti which had lingered on due to the weekend was rudely shattered with the sobering news of Hyderabad losing one of its iconic heritage structures to a…
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Opinion: Akhilesh Yadav emerges as main challenger to BJP in UP polls
Kalyani Shankar By Kalyani Shankar Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has emerged as the primary challenger to the BJP for the February Assembly polls now that…
- India
Veteran journalist Rajappa passes away in Canada; he had served Statesman from Hyderabad
By A S Rao When I received a WhatsApp message this evening from P S Jayaram, my senior colleague and former chief of bureau in Deccan Chronicle, about the demise of veteran…
- Hyderabad
Secunderabad Club fire: By virtue of complacency, we are guilty of severe negligence
Zeenath Khan This morning, national news channels were ablaze with footage of the blaze that engulfed the Secunderabad Club. Overnight, a short circuit-induced fire destroyed most of the Club’s main building. By…
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Adieu Kamal, big thank you for keeping afloat the flag of professional, secular ethics
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa Disbelief is a big hurdle in way of acceptance and that is why when you wish sabr or solace for the kin who have lost a dear…
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Khorana is ours too
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy A DAWN article on Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011) threw me back 50 years when I, along with 600 other students had packed 26-100 (MIT’s largest lecture hall) to hear…
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Bhopal: Sportspersons up in arms against BMC for encroaching playground
By Pervez Bari Bhopal: Noted national and international hockey players of yesteryears in Bhopal, once known as “nursery of hockey”, who brought laurels to the country and Madhya Pradesh, are up in…
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Future of Murree as Pakistan’s premier hill resort is grim, says an expert
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin No one expects to go on holiday to see death at work. The carnage caused by the recent snowstorm in Murree, which trapped hundreds of eager tourists in their…
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A desi’s life in America for the past 50 years
Mustafa Ahsan Siddiqui By Mustafa Ahsan Siddiqui Everyone dreamed of living in America. It was referred to as the land of opportunity and employment. My father, Dr. Abul Hasan Siddiqui had a…
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Congress keeps promise, first poll list has 40 pc women candidates
Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa The Congress Party not only took the lead in being the first political party to release the list of candidates for the forthcoming assembly polls in Uttar…
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Why Muslims are in bad shape, time to introspect: Maulana Mujaddidi
By Pervez Bari Jaipur: Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddidi, Rector of Jamea Tul Hidaya, Jaipur and Chairman, Abdul Rahim Educational Trust, while pointing out to decline of Muslims in all walks of life…
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Falling fertility rates
By Nahia Hussain and Amir Ullah Khan As per the National Family Health Survey released earlier this year, India’s fertility rate has fallen from 2.2 in 2015-16 to 2.0 in 2019-21. The…
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Why upcoming assembly elections in five states are crucial?
Kalyani Shankar By Kalyani Shankar Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. BJP is ruling in four of the five states…
