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Why Ramzan is a lowkey affair for glass bangle makers and traders of Firozabad?

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Firozabad (UP) Come Ramzan and Indian markets are full of attractive bangles for the ladies and children. While we adorn our babies and ourselves with these, buy some for gifting and festivals, weddings, or other ceremonies, we barely realize what goes into making these stunning plain to meenakari glass bangles; who burns the midnight oil so women could feel better flaunting them. The hub for glass bangles is Firoza...

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicines and Sciences is a legacy in four walls

Rana Siddiqui Zaman Known for its locks, Aligarh, a city in Uttar Pradesh, has also locked a legacy in its reserve - for generations to benefit from it. It houses a rare academy and museum called Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicines and Sciences. Located at Tijara House, amid a vibrant market place and residential area, Ibn Sina is hailed as the rarest house of legacies in arts and sciences combined under one roof. Named after ...

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Singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi burned crackers at 5 am on Diwali

Film magazines and sites are abuzz with stories of how film stars celebrate Diwali. Rana Siddiqui Zaman spoke to some film actors and asked them about their childhood Diwali and more Rana Siddiqui Zaman A 54-year-old Yashpal Sharma chuckled the moment I requested him to dig into his childhood Diwali. The Ganga-Jal fame actor whose Dada Lakhmi has turned him into an international icon with numerous awards for Haryana’s first epic ...

Diwali: The light that is, and will be

Indian Muslims celebrate Diwali with as much happiness as Hindus eagerly wait for Eid. It’s a shared culture that is here to stay. Aberrations don’t matter, says Rana Siddiqui Zaman It is a no-brainer to think that India, a land of several religions and faiths, has celebrated its festivals in harmony and a spirit of inclusiveness. Hindus have their Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, and Jain brethren to celebrate festivals ...

Etiquettes of Ramzan that not many Indians care to know about

Rana Siddiqui Zaman It’s 6.38 pm; iftar time for fasting Muslims in India. I am on my ‘dastarkhwan’ (long mat spread, for laying food items), ready to break my 17-hour roza (fast), with gratitude to Allah that I was able to endure hunger, thirst, headache, and a bit of physical weakness. My body is learning to heal from the month-long fasting. (The Nobel Prize for the year 2016 to Yoshinomori Oshum, a ...

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Dr Sarfaraz and family quietly changing lives of poor in Noida

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Noida (UP) It is not rare to find Muslims doing social work silently, unwilling to promote themselves. One such person is Dr. Sarfarazuddin, a homeopath who lives in sector 105, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. He has been feeding 100 deprived people every day for the past five years and teaches students free. He brings ill and unknown covid-dead patients home bathes and buries them, all by himself, and even marries off ...

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