Category Archives: Culture & Heritage

Culture and Heritage of Indian Muslims

Marketing for Muslims

Marketing is a big term of our age- art of selling glasses to blinds and combs to balds. There are some effort by Muslims to show that Muslims are a huge market and project themselves a an attractive community to … Continue reading

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Kashmiriyat Revisited

This 18th June, Friday (2010), nearly thousands of Kashmiri pandits, including women and children, visited the temple of Mata Kheer Bhavani in Tullamula, 20 Kilometers from Shrinagar. There was a big congregation of local Muslims who greeted the visiting pandits with cold drinks and Kheer. The local Muslims and the ministers said that all concerned should work for return of Pandits to the valley, as Kashmiiryat is incomplete without the pandits, who are integral part of the Kashmir’s culture and life. Many a pandits also promised to work towards such a goal, to over come the divides created by the militant and political forces. Continue reading

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In MIT, a celebration of Faiz’s life and works

Cambridge, Massachusetts: A program to celebrate the life and works of one of Urdu’s greatest poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz attracted a room full of Faiz fans to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 27, 2010. Moneeza Hashmi at MIT … Continue reading

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Folklore Sans Frontiers

Six decades have passed since rivers of blood were unleashed by the tragic events of 1947, where an unnatural division of a territory was imposed by a cabal of self-obsessed politicians of all varieties and faiths, in cahoots with their imperial masters. It will take years, perhaps decades, but the dream for a visa-less, peacefully coexistent countries of South Asia will be realized. We will wait, but not give up Continue reading

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Muslim Women Of Malabar

Malabar Muslim women may be dressed- traditional, modern, or religious- Mappila women cannot be ignored. Until recently, a section of ulama were opposed to women’s education but people’s attitude changed and now the same group of traditional ulama have set up an engineering college with a women’s hostel attached. Times have changed. Continue reading

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The Annual Of Urdu Studies: Urdu Scholarship In English Language

The Annual of Urdu Studies (AUS) was started in 1980 by Prof. C. M. Naim of the University of Chicago, who published it from 1981 to 1990. Three years later, Prof. Memon at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, took over the responsibility of this journal. He has published this journal without a break since 1993. It is an annual publication and has so far published 24 issues. The journal is now facing difficulties and is in need of financial support to keep the publication going. Continue reading

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Namaz At India Islamic Cultural Centre

India Islamic Cultural Center (IICC) takes your breath away with its beautiful dome, intricate calligraphy and delicate design. With the objective to “promote understanding among the people of different religion and help the promotion of the cause of national integration,” it has quickly become an important institution. Continue reading

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Happy Holi Everyone!

Wishing a happy Holi to all the readers. Enjoy it with a beautiful poem that places the Prophet in a very distinct Indian cultural mileu written by Hazrat Shah Niaz. Abida Parveen has rendered it amazingly well in the album Raqs-e-Bismil. Continue reading

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Maulana Azad – The Architect Of India’s Freedom

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is, by any reckoning, a major figure in twentieth-century Indian History. He truly represents the legacy of the composite Islamic tradition of India Continue reading

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To which religion plants belong

For some reason a few plants have come to denote a particular religion. Plants like Neem and Tulsi have a medicinal quality which should go beyond any such classification Continue reading

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