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C Shukkur and Dr. Sheena Shukkur with daughters Jasmine, Jezah, and Jebin outside the sub-registrar's office after registering their marriage under the SMA

I did it for dignity of my daughters and all women: Shukkur who remarried under SMA

Tahmeena Rizvi and Shariqa Malik

Tahmeena and Shariqa are smiling as they rose from society's curbs

Sharda Peeth temple in Shardei village, POK and Home Minister Amit Shah

Why is Pakistan afraid of reopening Sharda Peeth pilgrimage route?

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Muslims must focus on cracking non-UPSC exams for govt. jobs: Zafar Mahmood

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood, President of the Zakat Foundation of India, should be a happy man since 24 of the 100 Muslim men and women whom his organization gave scholarships for coaching for the coveted Civil Services examination for the year 2023, have made it. Of the 50 Muslims selected for the Indian Civil and allied services for 2023 the result of which was declared last week, 24 were sponsored by the ZFI. This i...

Why Dhanak founder Asif Iqbal has to buy jhumkas for Eid

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Asif Iqbal, the founder of Dhanak of Humanity, an NGO that works with authorities to help young couples hounded by their families for interfaith or inter-caste marriage, says for him Eid-ul-Fitr is about meeting his family, visiting friends, and going to the mosque for prayers with his father and brother. However, this Eid, his teenage daughter has posed him a challenge. “This time, my elder one wants ...

Holi was all about colours, masti, mithia, singing and dancing: Classical singer Hameed Khan

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Hori folksongs are sung around the festival of colours, Holi, which falls on Monday, March 25, and these offer an opportunity for Indian classical singers to sing for the masses. According to Mohammad Hameed Khan, a classical singer specializing in Khayal gayaki, “The genre of Hori songs is all about Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva, and paeans to their ways of playing with colours and the victory over evil.” ...

We are loyal Indians: kin of Kashmiri secessionists

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi If there could be one stark parameter of the changed ecosystem in Kashmir and an endgame for Pakistan, it has to be the trend of notices published by the children and grandchildren of Kashmiri separatist leaders in the local English and Urdu newspapers announcing they are “loyal citizens of India.” Two such public notices recently published are from Sama Shabir Shah, the elder of the two daughter...

Why Shahpur Kandi dam is not India’s water terrorism against Pakistan

Aasha Khosa As a young journalist, I have walked with Veteran Maj Gen (Retd) Govanrdhan Singh Jamwal across Jammu’s Kandi areas of Kathua and Samba district bordering the fertile plains of Punjab. Nothing much grew on the land due to non-existent irrigation canals; one could see thorny bushes resembling those growing in deserts popping out of the arid land here and there. People stoically complained of water scarcity and despondency ...

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Soldiering is not about picking a gun and firing: Syed Ata Hasnain

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain is one of the most expressive Army veterans. He speaks on issues of India’s internal security and explains strategic issues in the common man’s language. General Officers like Hasnain live up to the image of a quintessential soldier who is always on duty. As a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, he was recently the communication point person of the govern...

Why Koreans are eagerly awaiting Ram Mandir’s consecration at Ayodhya?

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Even before the grandiose Ram Mandir which is to be consecrated on January 22 at Ayodhya, thousands of Koreans visited the city every year; they came on a pilgrimage to pay their obeisance to Queen Heo Hwang-ok, who was Lord Ram descendent and consider Ayodhya as their material home (nanihal). Koreans believe they are the descendents of the Indian princess Suriratna who is known in the Koreas as Heo Hwang-ok. The ...

15 years after 26/11 India is way more clearer on dealing with terrorism, Pakistan

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Fifteen years after 10 Pakistani Lashkar-e-toiba terrorists attacked Mumbai on November 26 killing 166 people; many things have changed in and for India. The 26/11 set the mood for India’s no-nonsense policy on terrorism and Pakistan; it changed the perception of common Indians about terrorism as a localised problem and they saw it as a serious threat to the country and their lives. The live television cover...

15 years after 9/11 India is way more clearer on dealing with terrorism, Pakistan

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Fifteen years after 10 Pakistani Lashkar-e-toiba terrorists attacked Mumbai on November 26 killing 168 people; many things have changed in and for India. The 26/11 set the mood for India’s no-nonsense policy on terrorism and Pakistan; it changed the perception of common Indians about terrorism as a serious threat to them. The live television coverage of Pakistani terrorists holed-in in the top hotels, the Ch...

A requiem to Maj Purushottam and other fallen soldiers on Diwali

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Festivals ignite nostalgia for joyous celebrations of one’s childhood, indulgent grandparents, generally parsimonious parents who do not mind spending on crackers, and the specter of sounds, lights, colours, and flavours of food. However, as we grow and connect with the real world, some not-so-joyous memories also become a part of us. One such memory is of Major Purushottam, who laid down his life in the li...

Gulzar Ganai is looking for a niche to set up Sufiyana music school in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Kashmiri Sufi and Folk singer Gulzar Ahmed Gania is seeking a plot of land from the Jammu and Kashmir government for his proposed Sufi Music school, where the maestro wants to impart his knowledge to the young boys and girls of Kashmir. Speaking with Awaz-the Voice, Ganaie said he was keen to pass on this unique art form to the next generation of Kashmiris, free of cost. “I had opened a school in a rented pl...

Kalari: Jammu's exotic cheese made by Gujjars is the latest rage of foodies

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Decades ago when most Indians had not heard of the processed cheese of Europe and it was not available in stores, the Gujjar tribesmen of Jammu and Kashmir were making it for a livelihood as part of their ways of food preservation. Back then, travelers on the Jammu-Srinagar highway would break their journey at Chennai, a quaint hilly village in the Jammu region, and wait for the tribesmen to descend from the hills...

Why is Kashmir's authentic food missing from menu of Valley's restaurants, eateries?

Aasha Khosa Kehwa, the cardamom-cinnamon flavoured green tea, traditionally brewed and served in a Somavar, is a quintessential Kashmiri beverage. The golden tea is an instant hit while the other unique tea of Kashmir (and the Himalayan belt) – pink salt tea - needs special taste buds to be appreciated. In its shahi (royal) version, a few strands of saffron and slivered almonds are also added to it. Friends and neighbours often d...

Aborted coup case exposes the link between terrorism and Pak Military

Aasha Khosa/New delhi In 1995, Pakistan was close to being taken over by a group of the renegade Army officers led by a General-rank officer who wanted to assassinate the then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and declare the country as an Islamic system of Khilafat, on the lines of the ISIS. This secret has come out as the Pakistan’s Supreme Court recently dismissed the plea of two officers, involved in the conspiracy and later conv...

G-20 Summit begins on the note of extending India's people-centric approach across world

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The overnight light showers came as a divine blessing to give perfect finishing touches to the star-spangled New Delhi as it hosts one of the biggest and the most grandiose of the global events – G-20 – that kicks off Saturday morning at the amazingly beautiful venue – Bharat Mandapam. The 18th summit of the world’s top 20 economies is being attended by more than 30 heads of state and...

Success of G-20 Summit can make India a strong contender for holding Olympics

Aasha Khosa The three-day G-20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting held in Hyderabad on food security is the classic example of India’s way of organizing the meetings of the world’s most powerful economies throughout the year was aimed at making the most of its presidency. External Affairs Minister S Jaishnakar told a news channel that India, as president of the G-20, was clear about taking this responsibility seriously. Givi...

Sarpanch Babita Bhat rewrites the rules of people-govt engagement in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi For the initial two years after Babita Bhat was elected Sarpanch of the Ladhoo-A village of Pulwama, South Kashmir, not many villagers knew they had a woman village head. “This information was deliberately kept away from the womenfolk. It’s only after I started interacting with the students of the government schools that the news about me spread making women come to me for work,” Babita, who is a...

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What did Kalam tell security man minutes before he died in Shillong?

New Delhi On July 27, 2015, when Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam reached Shillong after a four-hour road journey from Guwahati, Assam, to address the students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) he asked his secretary Ghamanshyam Sharma to make him meet the security person who was standing with a machine gun mounted atop a vehicle in front of the convoy. When the security man came, Kalam apologized to him and said, “I am extremely so...

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APJ Abdul Kalam's memorial is the new pilgrimage site in Rameshwaram

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi In mid-December, when Suman and her husband Diwan Arora of Sonepat, Haryana, left for Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, for performing the pilgrimage to one of the holiest sites of Hindus, little did they know that their journey would also take them to another sacred place – a memorial to the son of the soil Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam aka Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. “I didn’t feel like leavin...

Why Pakistani leaders call Kargil operation 'Musharraf’s misadventure?'

Aasha Khosa It was 24 years ago that Pakistan lost its credibility in the eyes of India and the world realized the catastrophic implications of Islamabad’s ambition of wresting J&K by hook or by crook. The Kargil conflict, triggered by the ambition of the Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf proved to be the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan’s trustworthiness as a state. The Kargil conflict was a two-month war provoked...

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