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Anjum Ara, IPS and Yunus Khan, IAS

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Civil servant couple Anjum Ara, Yunus Khan show the way to honour fallen soldiers

Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi with the Booker Prize in London

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Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq wanted to end life over restrictions

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and NSA Ajit Doval with three service Chiefs during Operation Sindoor

Op Sindoor: Bold attack on Pakistan unbridled use of terror as state policy

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Zaira Wasim has the right to choose; So do Kashmir’s girls

Aasha Khosa About a decade ago, a 16-year-old Kashmiri girl with chubby cheeks and a sparkling smile became a national sweetheart. The girl Zaira Wasim, who played Geeta Phogat in Aamir Khan’s Dangal, won widespread acclaim for her performance. The film was a blockbuster in India and abroad, and Zaira received the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. A year later, she appeared in Secret Superstar (2017), playing...

Woman pilot hit LeT's Muridke center, and more facts about Operation Sindoor

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Declassified: Operation Sindoor is the first documentary on India’s retaliatory attacks on the terrorist bases inside Pakistan and the PoJK for massacre of 26 Indian men in front of the women in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025. The four-day operation launched in the wee hours of May 7, was meant to convey to Islamabad India’s clear message that henceforth every terrorist attack would be con...

How Kashmiris used their mother tongue to seal a treaty that changed history

Aasha Khosa Vijay Dhar, a Kashmiri entrepreneur and founder of the Delhi Public School in Kashmir, witnessed one of the most consequential moments in India's diplomatic history from close quarters. As the son of veteran diplomat Durga Prasad Dhar, he had a front-row seat to the intense negotiations that culminated in the landmark Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation in 1971. In April 1971, Durga Prasad Dhar was s...

Kargil War: The Lion of Ladakh who crushed Pak positions in Batalik

Aasha Khosa Kargil Vijay Diwas is an occasion to remember not only India's victory over Pakistani intruders in 1999 but also the extraordinary soldiers whose courage made that triumph possible. Among them stands Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, Maha Vir Chakra, a son of Ladakh whose daring leadership delivered one of the Indian Army's earliest and most crucial victories in the Batalik sector. Then a Major in the Ladakh Scouts...

Sonam Wangchuk: My hero, and my disappointment

Aasha Khosa Before Sonam Wangchuk became a face of youth resistance by joining the Cockroach Janata Party's protest in New Delhi, he was best known as a climate activist, innovator, and champion of sustainable living. His work was always deeply rooted in the realities of Ladakh—India's cold desert, where survival depends on conserving every available resource. I first visited Leh in 1990 to report on the agitation that ha...

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Dr. Sushil Razdan: The healer who united Kashmir

Aasha Khosa What can bring together Kashmir's political arch-rivals—Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the former Chief Minister and National Conference leader, and Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq, the Hurriyat Conference chairman? It takes a healer. That healer was Dr. Sushil Razdan, Kashmir's pioneering neurologist, whose remarkable life was celebrated at the launch of Healer in Exile: The Untold Story of Dr. Sushil Razdan, written by...

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IYD 2026: Yoga Guru Badrul Islam reveals asana to adapt living in air pollution

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi On International Yoga Day, Dr Badrul Islam Kairanvi, the first Muslim Yoga expert from India, said he had mastered a Yoga Aasana that doubles the lungs' oxygen-intake capacity and helps the human body adapt to air pollution. Speaking to Awaz-the Voice on the eve of the IYD 2026, Dr Islam said he had demonstrated this asana with verifiable results in a Yoga session in Kolkata in December 2025 and als...

Syeda Saiyidin Hameed reached top positions despite her activism

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Very few women, especially among Muslims, have pursued public causes and yet reached top positions in government. Syeda Saiyidin Hameed is one of them. An acclaimed author, educationist, the first Muslim woman member of the Planning Commission (Since renamed as NITI -- National Institution for Transforming India – Ayog) and a member of the National Commission for Women, she is a woman of substance in a real ...

Rana Siddiqui broke barriers to become a name to reckon with in journalism

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi In the world of Indian journalism, Rana Siddiqui Zaman is a respected name, known for her incisive writing on cinema and the performing arts. Her columns in The Hindu earned a reputation for credible, balanced analysis, and readers continue to recall her insightful interviews with legendary artists such as A. R. Rahman. But what led a Muslim woman born into a middle-class family in the 1970s to pursue journalism, ...

Yana Mir: Kashmir's lone journalist to challenge Pakistan's narrative

Aasha Khosa The turmoil in Kashmir, rooted in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, has shaped countless lives. One voice that has challenged dominant narratives from within the Valley is that of Yana Mir. If there is one Kashmiri face that has unsettled Pakistan’s terror-support ecosystem, it is hers. A Kashmir-born and Mumbai-educated journalist, media entrepreneur, and social activist, Yana Mir has carved a distinct path since returni...

Yana Mir: Kashmir's lone journalist who smashed Pak propaganda

Aasha Khosa The turmoil in Kashmir, rooted in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, has shaped countless lives. One voice that has challenged dominant narratives from within the Valley is that of Yana Mir. If there is one Kashmiri face that has unsettled Pakistan’s terror-support ecosystem, it is hers. A Kashmir-born and Mumbai-educated journalist, media entrepreneur, and social activist, Yana Mir has carved a distinct path since returni...

Why Indians are remembering Homi J. Bhabha amid war, global fuel crisis

Aasha Khosa Thanks to the OTT boom, many Indians today are familiar with Homi Jehangir Bhabha and his pioneering role in founding India’s nuclear programme at a time when the newly independent nation was still grappling with hunger, poverty, and basic survival. As depicted in the series Rocket Boys, Bhabha foresaw that energy would shape the trajectory of development and national autonomy in the modern world. He believed Ind...

Bangladeshi voters show culture and language bind them more than religion

Aasha Khosa The creation of Bangladesh is not a distant chapter in history; it is a living memory in the subcontinent. For Indians in particular, the birth of Bangladesh carries deep emotional, political and strategic resonance. It came barely twenty-five years after the formation of Pakistan, the world’s first modern state explicitly conceived based on religion. India’s engagement with Bangladesh has always been shaped by ...

A boy's journey from Kupwara to India’s top labs as scientist

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have developed a bio-patch that can reverse the damage caused by a heart attack in humans. The patch can be planted on the heart and it would regrow the damaged tissue and restore health. The patch made of biomaterials has already been tested on animals and is awaiting human trials before it can be manufactured. This key medical project is led by the Kashm...

Two arrested for sexually assaulting 13yr old girl in Delhi's Samaypur Badli

New Delhi The Outer North District Police have arrested two men for the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in the Samaypur Badli area. The accused, identified as 26-year-old, a bank employee and a 28-year-old local salon owner, were apprehended following a swift investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT). The matter surfaced on the evening of December 20, 2025, when police received a PCR call regarding a minor ...

2025 will be remembered for India’s Operation Sindoor

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The year 2025 turned out to be an extraordinary year for India. The world that looked at India as a soft power giant with Chai and Yoga as its brands, paused in awe to see the Indian Military smash terrorist-spawning schools deep inside Pakistan, and when provoked, the air bases, including the one with a nuclear stockpile. Operation Sindoor in May sent a clear message to Pakistan that India has zero tolerance for ...

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Dhurandhar is a sleek spy thriller with a layered story on India's security - a review

Aasha Khosa If you are hooked to the riveting song Fa9la by Baharini rapper Flipprachey and grooving on Akshaye Khanna's dance on it in Dharundhar, you are not alone. However, if you believe that this scene is the brightest frame in the movie, which, at the time of writing, is heading at least towards one of the biggest blockbusters of the year, you are wrong. The entire 3.5-hour movie is seamless and brilliant filmmaking by Aditya Dha...

When Muslims wept for Hindus fleeing killings in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa In the early nineties, Kashmiri Hindus did leave their homes and hearths while fleeing militancy and violence in their land. And it’s also true that the gunmen who killed some of them and others in Kashmir were Muslims. However, beyond this generalisation of a tumultuous situation, the reality is more nuanced; it is not always a black and white situation; there are shades of grey. Unforgettable experiences This is...

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Azra Naqvi explains how BANAT uses mobile app to further cause of Urdu and women writers

Aasha Khosa Azra Naqvi wears many hats, but her core remains attached to Urdu, the language, she claims, she breathes, thinks in, and is in her DNA. Despite having lived a fulfilling life with her husband in many countries, dabbled in different professions and roles, her heart always pined for her favourite language. After returning to Delhi in 2017, Azra found a job to fulfil her passion. She became a consulting editor with Rekhta Fou...

10 unforgettable emotional moments from Women's World Cup victory

Aasha Khosa Three days after lifting the Women's World Cup 2025 in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, the Indian team met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi wearing formal attire and the smiles of winners on their faces. However, their calm countenance was in start contrast to their raw emotions after the grand victory and won them a million hearts. Here are ten emotional moments from the celebrations after the Women's team ...

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