Treated ‘worse than animals’: thousands of Indian women feared trapped in ashrams
Source: The Guardian By Michael Safi in Delhi Delhi authorities say thousands more women could be living in the estimated 300 properties linked to the group Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya nationwide. Photograph: […]
Padmavati: Controversial film ‘cleared by Indian censor board’
Source: BBC News India’s film censor board has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavati, reports say. The film, which tells the story of a 14th Century Hindu queen […]
India: Muslim women can perform Hajj alone now
DAWN.COM December 31, 2017 Modi speaks of ‘freeing Muslim women from injustices’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government has removed the restriction on Muslim women from performing Haj alone, following which hundreds of women have applied to travel alone for the pilgrimage, Times of India reported. Modi, […]
प्रैस रिलीज़: कादियान में अहमदिया मुस्लिम जमाअत भारत का 123 वां जलसा सालाना
सब धर्मों में आपसी सौहार्द तथा शांति स्थापित करने वाला रूहानी जलसा अहमदिया मुस्लिम जमाअत भारत के केंद्र कादियान ज़िला गुरदासपुर, पंजाब में दिनांक 29 ,30, 31 दिसंबर 2017 ई को 123 वां जलसा सालाना अर्थात सम्मेलन वार्षिक अपनी पारंपरिक शान शौकत के साथ आयोजित किया जा रहा है। आज […]
‘We Are Afraid of Christmas’: Tensions Dampen Holiday in India
Source: The New York Times By KAI SCHULTZ and SUHASINI RAJ A Christmas display at a New Delhi mall. Though Christians are a small minority in India, celebrating the holiday appeals to many […]
Swiss cheese and Asian tea: An arranged culinary marriage
By Anand Chandrasekhar This content was published on December 18, 2017 Besides adding an interesting layer of taste, tea also helps digest cheese (swissinfo.ch) Cheese and tea have been around […]
Christmas in India tarnished by ‘climate of hate’
Source: Aljazeera By Zeenat Saberin 6 hours ago Participants wearing Santa Claus caps perform during a Christmas parade in Ahmedabad, India [Amit Dave/Reuters]There is a sense of unease leading up […]
Hindu nationalists warn Christian missionary schools they celebrate Christmas ‘at their own risk’
Source: The Telegraph BY Rahul Bedi, new delhi 21 DECEMBER 2017 • 10:20AM A Right-wing Hindu revivalist organisation has warned Christian missionary schools in northern India that they celebrate Christmas at “their own risk” as […]
Bill Gates gives Akshay Kumar’s (Toilet: Ek Prem Katha) a shout-out on Twitter
Even Bill Gates has a list of things he looked back on this year and one of them is a Bollywood film. https://images.dawn.com/news/1179087 The Microsoft Corporation co-founder posted a list of eight things on Twitter which served as inspiration for him, including Akshay Kumar’s Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. Gates went down […]
Indian Hindu tried to raise money with video of killing of Muslim: police
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu man in India tried to raise money for a campaign against minority Muslims by issuing an appeal for donations with a video […]
The indignity of being Muslim in India
Source: Quartz BY Sahil Wajid My first name was chosen by my mother because it was, as she put it, a “secular” name. Being a mildly religious woman, that really […]
Hijab-clad girls dance on streets of India’s Kerala to take on trolls
Source: Reuters BY Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Flash mobs” of young women have taken to the streets in southern India to protest against the online trolling of […]
How people in India see Pakistan, 70 years after partition
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANYU CHWE Indian soldiers take up position at an outpost on the India-Pakistan border in R.S. Pora, southwest of Jammu, on Oct. 2, 2016. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty […]
The New Great Game moves from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific
Source: Asia Times In the context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the New Silk Roads, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), integrates all of China’s instruments of national power – political, economic, diplomatic, financial, intellectual and cultural – to shape the 21stcentury geopolitical/geoeconomic order. BRI is […]
Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim – a true story (in Urdu)
http://niazamana.com/2017/12/queen-victoria-and-munshi-abdul-karim/ By Zakaria Virk, Toronto ستمبر2017ء میں برطانیہ کینیڈا اور امریکہ میں ایک ڈاکو منٹری وکٹوریہ اینڈ عبدل کے نام سے ریلیز ہوئی تھی۔ اس ڈاکو منٹری کو ہندوستانی قلم کار مس شرابانی باسو کی کتاب وکٹوریہ اینڈ عبدل کی بنیاد پر بنا یا گیا تھا۔ یہ کتاب2010میں پہلی بار […]
How the Babri mosque destruction shaped India
Source: BBC News On this day, 25 years ago, right-wing Hindu mobs razed to the ground the 16th Century Babri mosque, claiming that it was built on the site of […]