A MAN FROM MOTIHARI: ABDULLAH KHAN

\Aparajita Krishna writes, “The Boy of ‘Patna Blues is now A Man From Motihari!”

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XBB1.16 VARIANT– THE NEW SUPER SPREADER

Dr Kishore P Madhwani writes: India, in spite of  acquiring a high coverage of primary COVID vaccination (97%) and its second dose (90%), the precauti...

SAD TIMES…

Humra  Quraishi reports on mindless encounters taking place in UP and harks to understand why they have almost become the...

A CONVERSATION OF PEACE AND HARMONY

Here, Vinta Nanda tells the story of Shabnam Hashmi, one among the millions of people who have, over the last 75 years, built a secular, democr...

FAIZ, SAHIR AND VERSE

Humra Quraishi revisits two of the best known poets of this  subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Sahir Ludhianvi.

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WE ARE SISTERS BORN

Humra  Quraishi recalls important conversations, she has had over the years with various people, twenty-one years after t...

IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE TERM BOLLYWOOD?

Monojit Lahiri does a close–up of this tricky issue and reaches out to the readers now for a solution to the word Bollyw...

A PLEA FOR PEACE

Humra  Quraishi celebrates Sahana Ahmed’s book, Amity Peace Poems, and Shubha Menon’s Resilience: Stories of ...

WE THE PEOPLE!

Humra Quraishi questions the whereabouts of missing children on Human Rights Day, and addresses what meaningless entertai...