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India, Muslim countries, Mongolia, Turkey agree on charter on unity of religions
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Taliban welcomes Indian aid in Budget
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Women's status in Islam must be seen in context of pre-Islam Arabia
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PERSONALITY

Nooralhaq Nasimi: I wish to work with India to improve Afghanistan
Shaista Fatima/ New Delhi Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, an Afghan refugee who was conferred with the UK’s highest chivalry award Member of the British Empire, is grateful to India for helping and accepting the refugees like him who fled to escape the barbaric rule of the Taliban. He is also eager to work in India and wishes the Narendra Modi government offer people like him recognition as the “Afghan Opposition.”  Dr...
01 Feb 2023
9 min read
Padma Shri Faisal Dar: Trailblazer in the valley
Nakul Shivani/ New Delhi “I teach sports. I also teach ways to live a good life” – Faisal Dar When Faisal Dar’s name featured in the list of Padma awardees in the year 2022, a glass ceiling had been broken. Dar etched his name in history books by becoming the first sportsperson from Jammu and Kashmir to win the prestigious Padma Shri. The government honoured him with this prestigious civilian award for his o...
01 Feb 2023
4 min read
Professor VK Tripathi: I was born a Hindu, raised by a Muslim
Shaista Fatima/New Delhi It was the year 1929, and the struggle for India’s freedom was on the mind of every individual - from teenagers to adults and elderly alike - each one of them contributed to the mass movement in their way. A 13-year-old boy, Hardas Sharma was no different. Having run away from home to find his true calling, he somehow landed in Gandhi's ashram and attended Gandhi’s lecture on the freedom struggle; w...
01 Feb 2023
18 min read
Hijabi Mountaineer Rizwana faces hurdles in her Everest Mission
Ravi Dwivedi/New Delhi Rizwana Khan Saifi achieved another feat on September 25, 2022 by conquering the 5,158 meter Mount Dangmachan in Himachal Pradesh. Two years later she is waiting for someone to extend a helping hand to make her realize her dream of becoming the first ‘hijabi’ to conquer Everest. Born in a modest family living of Pilkhuwa in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh, Rizwana Khan Saifi has scaled many m...
01 Feb 2023
5 min read
I want to explore people through food: Sadaf Hussain
Shaista Fatima/New Delhi "Sadkon Par Sheharoan ki Rooh Basti hai" (it is on the streets where the essence of the city lies), says Sadaf Hussain, a chef and an author of the book Dastan-e-Dastarkhwan. On a given weekend, Sadaf can be found exploring the food joints in Delhi. Sidelining all the rumours of his roots to Rampur's erstwhile Nawabs, Sadaf says, "As much as rumours are alway welcomed I am just ...
23 Jan 2023
9 min read
Chiropractor Dr. Asif Naqvi can treat patients by resetting spines
Shaista Fatima/New Delhi Sitting in his clinic at Defence Colony, Dr. Asif Naqvi reminisces about the year 2012 when he was associated with the then Indian Premier League's (IPL) Delhi Dare Devils team, and Kevin Peterson was a member of the squad. Dr.Naqvi told Awaz-the Voice, “Back then Kevin was desperately looking for a chiropractor to adjust his spine and during that time in India nobody had a clue as to what this ...
23 Jan 2023
10 min read
Maqbool Sherwani: the young man who saved Kashmir
Aasha Khosa/New Delhi On October 26, 1947, Pashtun tribesmen armed to teeth and sent as a proxy by Pakistan Army had taken control of Baramulla town in north Kashmir, as Maharaja Hari Singh was undecided on joining either the Indian or the Pakistan domain in the wake of freedom from the British and division of the sub-continent.   Facing no resistance, the Pushtuns looted homes and temples, raped women – Hindu, S...
23 Jan 2023
5 min read
Ulfat Bano: Defying odds to train footballers
Nakul Shivani/ New Delhi Tucked away in a remote corner of Budgam on the scenic Srinagar-Gulmarg highway, is a small village called Narbalpeth. Here, every day, at the crack of dawn Ulfat Bano makes her way to a small playground next to her house to train young kids in the art and skill of kicking a football. Dressed in a hijab and track-suit, Ulfat has been doing this religiously for more than a decade. The middle of five sisters,...
23 Jan 2023
4 min read
'Main tooti Nahin': Kashmir's first women canoeist Bilquis Mir
Nakul Shivani/ New Delhi Chapak…Chapak…Chapak…The magical sound of a paddle piercing the serene waters of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. With a cool breeze drifting across, as the water droplets fall on the face and body, the Canoeist pushes through the current to reach the finish line. At the end of the exercise, each muscle has been tested, the hands pushed to the limit, the energy sapped from the body. The canoeist t...
23 Jan 2023
5 min read
Kashmiri Youtuber Musaib's songs break the internet
Shaista Fatima/New Delhi After the exhilarating success of the single "One minute up and one minute down, baby, this is downtown", Musaib's newest creation "Excuse me" is also on the loop for many millennials these days. While the song "Downtown" has garnered around 6.5M views by the time of writing this story on YouTube since its release on July 25 last year, "Excuse Me" is on 300k and co...
23 Jan 2023
5 min read
Why Tom Alter loved his scripts in Urdu?
Shaista Fatima/New Delhi Growing up as a 90’s kid, the world of television always fascinated me. I was particularly fond of  Tom Alter, who would feature in almost every Television serial based on Indian Independence struggle and Bollywood film that I watched. I always had this lingering wish to meet him, know him more and if possible even share a stage. Back in 2017, when I started doing theatres, my hopes soared but before I c...
23 Jan 2023
6 min read
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose believed patriotic Muslims and Hindus are equals
Saquib Salim “My mental attitude towards Muslims, in general, was largely, though unconsciously, influenced by my early contacts. The quarter in which we lived was predominantly Muslim, and our neighbours were mostly Muslims.” This is what Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose wrote in his incomplete autobiography, An Indian Pilgrim. Bose never believed that Hindus and Muslims are any different as citizens of India. He believed in the...
23 Jan 2023
3 min read
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 ...
25 Jan 2023
7 min read


Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and Maulana Hasrat Mohani
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Muslims in Constituent Assembly opposed reservation, minority tag
27 Jan 2023 | 6 min read
Mahatma Gandhi on Ship to London for Round Table Conference
culture-news
Egyptian freedom, Gandhi and Muslim League
25 Jan 2023 | 6 min read
Mohammad Farid and Shyamji Krishna Verma
culture-news
Egypt and India fought against the British Raj together
25 Jan 2023 | 4 min read
Mukarram Jah Bahadur with his wife
culture-news
'Nizam' Mukarram Jah to be laid to rest in Hyderabad as per his wish
17 Jan 2023 | 3 min read

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