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Make excellence your habit
I can’t remember for how long I have been telling Muslims in India to avoid confrontation and focus on education. The results of this year’s Bihar 10th Board examination once again prove…
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Losing mother at the tender age of 10, undeterred Javed Akhtar is rocking Bollywood
Most of us cannot decide who between Gulzar and Javed Akhtar is a better poet-lyricist. So, when the two legends shared the stage at the launch of Jadunama: Javed Akhtar’s Journey, written…
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Award Bharat Ratna to Dilip Kumar posthumously
One afternoon in 1999, I called up thespian Dilip Kumar at his Bandra Bungalow landline. His PA picked up the phone and was about to hang up after saying “Sahab is resting”…
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When a wish gets fulfilled
A famous dialogue of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan from the film Om Shanti Om goes: “Kehte hain agar kisi cheez ko dilse chaho toh puri kainaat usse tumse milane ki koshish…
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My father, my teacher, philosopher and guide
Your mother is your first school. Absolutely true. Your mother is one who braved the untold hardships ever since you were a mere bump in her belly. She is the one who…
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Competition, rivalry and friendship—I and Binod shared it all; now he is no more
Built on a hill-like high edge of a pond–in local dialect it is called bhinda or pokharbhida–the school was our world. Its tiled roof which leaked when it rained heavily, whitewashed walls,…
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Mausam Hai Aashiqana…Do not kill our language
Ye raat ye khaamoshi, ye khwaab se nazaareJugnu hain ya zamin par utare huye hain taareBekhaab meri ankheiN, madahosh hai zamaanaMausam… My dear Indians,Don’t kill our enchantingly beautiful language Urdu. Don’t you…
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News warrior of a different kind
At a modest house in South Delhi’s leafy Sarita Vihar colony, a tall, handsome man woke up early in the morning to read a bunch of newspapers religiously. He didn’t only read…
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A leaderless community
Chalta huun thodi duur har ek tez-rau ke saath/ Pahchanta nahin huun abhi rahbar ko main–Mirza Ghalib(I walk short distances with everyone who moves apace/I don’t know who is the leader nor…
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Who will save Delhi’s Jama Masjid?
The middle dome and some minarets of Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid suffered damages in the recent hailstorm. Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari told media persons that Archeological Survey of India (ASI) stopped taking…
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Piya Haji Ali…Piya Haji Ali… Piya Ho
Few Pirs or Sufi saints in South Asia can match the popularity of the 14th century Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari, or simply Haji Ali. I have been to the doors of…
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M F Husain—I have not decided yet to sell his autograph yet
Yes Bank’s co-founder Rana Kapoor, currently cooling his heels in jail for a Rs 5000 crore fraud, has reportedly revealed to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that he was forced to buy a…
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When Aamir Subhani visited AMU
In the summer of 1987, I was vacationing in my village when the All India Radio included brief news in its 9 pm bulletin about Aamir Subhani topping that year’s Civil Services…
