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Kolkata's 122-Year Nahoum Jewish bakery retains its pristine charm and popularity

Rita Farhat Mukand There’s a famous phrase Kolkatans use for Nahoum: Nahoum is a bakery started and owned by Jews, with Muslim bakers, where Christians and Hindus line up in the thousands to relish Nahoum’s delicacies” Rafat Akhtar, a poet who lives in Kolkata says, “More than a hundred years old, Nahoum Bakery Shop is still striving as one of the best cake sellers in Kolkata. Their variety of cakes at Christmas...

Samsun Bibi of Odisha tends to crematorium as service to humanity

Rita Farhat Mukand Samsun Bibi of Odisha has been tending to a Hindu crematorium since 2012. She sweeps the crematorium and cleans the cremation ground daily and has planted 30 Neem trees over the ground which measures about an acre. Every day, she waters the saplings and 30 Neem trees that she planted, said Sarat Behera of Khadianga who recently performed the last rites of his father at there. She locks the gates, keeps the keys, and ...

USTM Chancellor Mahbubul Hoque says in villages family is a strong unit

Rita Farhat Mukand As the well-known educationist Mahbubul Hoque couldn’t make it to his village this Eid-ul-Fitr due to an anticipated inspection of his upcoming project - the P A Sangma International Medical college and hospital in Meghalya on the Assam border, he hosted 150 doctors, who had recently joined the hospital, and their families, to celebrate Eid and pre-Bihu (Assamese New Year) festivities at his home. T...

Rukhshi Kadiri Elias of Tajira says Eid is a festival to connect with all

Rita Farhat Mukand Rukhshi Kadiri Elias, founder of Tajira, the dynamic network in Kolkata where women uplift and support one another in entrepreneurship to launch and sustain businesses, has fond memories of Eid of her childhood. "I remember as a child getting very excited for Eid. Preparations for Eid began well ahead in Ramadan when we went out to buy clothes and matching earrings and bangles and sandals. We bought just a...

Why is 27th Ramadan night an extraordinary event this year, explains Tasneem Kausar

Rita Farhat Mukand “No one on Earth will ever see a night like this 2024 Shab-e-Qadr. The three most extraordinary celestial events are anticipated to happen on the 27th night of Ramadan! Firstly, Shab-e-Qadr, the most powerful night equating to thousands of months of prayers is happening, secondly, there will be a unique lunar eclipse that only occurs once in thousands of years, and the third is the expectation that the Jews will be...

Why is the night of 27th Ramadan an extraordinary event this year, explains Tasneem Kausar

Rita Farhat Mukand “No one on Earth will ever see a night like this 2024 Shab-e-Qadr. The three most extraordinary celestial events are anticipated to happen on the 27th night of Ramadan! Firstly, Shab-e-Qadr, the most powerful night equating to thousands of months of prayers is happening, secondly, there will be a unique lunar eclipse that only occurs once in thousands of years, and the third is the expectation that the Jews will be...

An Indian living in Canada enjoys the multicultural milieu of Ramadan

Rita Farhat Mukand H. Tariq who worships in a little mosque near her home with her family says, “This is the first time we are experiencing Ramadan towards the end of winter and beginning of spring, so it's still cold here and the snow is just starting to melt off the trees and houses, thus we have shorter fasts, while earlier Ramadans were very long in the summer hot humid months of May, June, and July.” In her beautif...

How Darjeeling became home for this Kashmiri family

Rita Farhat Mukand/Darjeeling Walking into Habeeb Mullick & Son, an antique shop run by a Kashmiri family since 1870, now seated in Chowrasta Mall of Darjeeling is like sailing into another exotic dimension - a powerful experience. This is no ordinary shop but an antique curio sphere exuding ancient energies with each exquisitely carved artifact extolling its secret mystic tale. As I sauntered around the shop exploring its ma...

Moscow’s Islam who saved 100 lives during terrorist attack honoured

Rita Farhat Mukand The 15-year-old Islam, who helped save over 100 people during the recent terrorist attack on a musical event in a Moscow suburb was honoured with the Real Hero award. In the attack claimed by ISIS, 133 persons died and some 180 were injured. Four suspected terrorists attacked the concert in Crocus Hall and opened fire indiscriminately on and also attacked people with knives and sharp-edged weapons. Moscow has arr...

Why Bangladeshi elite send their children to this Siliguri school?

Rita Farhat Mukand/Siliguri Tucked in the heart of lush trees, foliage and nature away from Siliguri city's hustle and bustle is a school that has 25 percent of students from neighbouring Bangladesh. The Sacred Heart Residential School is the preferred choice for the Bangladeshi elite to get their children a wholesome and inclusive education. Priyakee Gupta, co-owner of the school with her husband, who is the founder, Anil Gupta, s...

Compassion waves flow to Gaza amid war during Ramadan

Rita Farhat Mukand In the holy month of Ramadaan, while Muslims are immersed in an atmosphere of prayers, good deeds, and zakat, the Internet is flooded with pictures and videos of the starving, emaciated people in North Gaza. The images of bodies, blood, devastation, ruined buildings amid smoke and fire from bombs are disturbing. It seems the world has forgotten Gaza, with not even a pause in the combat during Ramadan. Is the wo...

Hindu vendors are kind and offer us discount during Ramzan: Sami Shaikh

Rita Farhat Mukand Sami Shaikh lives in Vijayapura (Bijapur), an old historical town in northern Karnataka. Today, almost a city, it was the capital of Bijapur Sultanate during the rule of the Adil Shahi dynasty in the 15th and 16th centuries. Today it is also known as the "Grape City" of India for its bumper production of the fruit. A former teacher, Sami Shaikh said that today, Vijayapura stands as a blend of its glorious past ...

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Indian Muslim women have a stronger voice today: Zeenat Shaukat Ali

Rita Farhat Mukand Caught in the panoramic whirl of life, there are thousands of affluent ladies one interacts or brushes shoulders with, but Dr. Zeenat Shaukat Ali shines out amongst many with her warm charming smile, down-to-earth nature, while showering pearls of knowledge. Born in an affluent home in Mumbai, she holds no superficial airs and graces. When someone mentioned to her that she should get the Padma Shri award for her remarkab...

Amir Khurshow's naat in praise of the Prophet continues to be sung in Bengal's shrines

Rita Farhat Mukand Bengali music had a powerful religious influence and in ancient India, Bengali Muslim music had deep roots in religious influence, traced to 400 years. Indian music in the North East in Assam and Bengal was very rich and varied. Amir Khusrow, the Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet, and scholar who lived during the period of the Delhi Sultanate praised Bengali music’s richness, depth, and emotional resonance, ...

Rukhshi Kadiri Elias weaves Taajira as network of women who empower each other

Rita Farhat Mukand “Empower the men to empower the economically empowered women,” jokes Rukhshi Kadiri Elias, an articulate lady with her mellow voice igniting the conversation. She is the founder of Taajira – (The Businesswoman), a massive network of entrepreneurial women creating a revolution, not only in Kolkata but in other places bringing two different kinds of women together, to work together and empower each o...

Abu Dhabi Mandir evolved as a symbol of unity of faiths, cultures

Rita Farhat Mukund The magnificent BAPS Mandir in Abu Dhabi has a rich story behind it. The vision for making this temple does back to April 1997 when Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the 10th spiritual guru and head of the sect, envisioned a dream of nurturing unity amid diversity to foster closer ties among nations, cultures, and religions. The temple's symbolic carvings incorporate indigenous UAE camels, falcons, and narratives from diver...

Dragon dance in front of Kali Temple: Chinese New Year festivities in Kolkata

Rita Farhat Mukand/Kolkata “Gong Xi Fa Cai!" Wish you enlarge your wealth! May the Year of the Dragon be fortunate for us all” exclaimed the residents of Tangra which lies in East Kolkata that traditionally housed many tanneries owned by people of Hakka Chinese origin, known as the Chinatown in Kolkata, India. Celebrations of the 2024 Chinese New Year started around the 8th of February culminating with the main day after t...

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Syed Ashraf Kichhouchhwi and his AIUMB fight radicals who bring disrepute to Islam

Rita Farhat Mukand/ Siliguri "It all started in 2005 under the sweltering sun in Moradabad, when we spread the message of Mohabbat" says great Sunni-Sufi leader, Syed Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi, founder of All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB). “Nafrat kisi se nahi, Mohabbat sab ke liye” (hatred for none and love for all) Syed Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi, says, his blue eyes glowing, while his royal dem...

Bhuj quake pushed Masroor Alam into launching mission to help humans in distress

Rita Farhat Mukand Mohammad Masroor Alam’s life took him through a different route in Gujarat in 2001 when he was enrolled for a computer course and the horrific Bhuj Earthquake shook the state on 26 January at 08:46 in the morning killing 20,023 people, injuring about 167,000 while bringing about 340,000 buildings down to rubble. As a young man, he was shaken by the massive devastation. Stirred by the voluminous urgent nee...

Islam has the true tradition of democracy: Sarojini Naidu

Rita Farhat Mukand Republic Day is being celebrated all over the nation - as it has been since 1950, the day when the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 embracing all Indians as equal stakeholders in a democratic nation. On this day, the the core principles of liberty, equality, human dignity, individual rights, and the people's sovereignty are heralded as the foundation of all legal authority; rejecting mona...

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