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Why The OIC's Plea For Muslim Solidarity Is A Pipe Dream
Pan-Islamic unity, the kind preached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan at the recent Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul, is not a bridge too far if all parties check...
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Islamist Extremists Weren't the Only Killers Of My Friend Xulhaz Mannan
By Hadi Hussain I had been trying to avoid it for hours last night but couldn't escape it any longer, as it was all over social media. "Xulhaz Mannan, 35, the editor at Bangladesh's first LGBT...
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Why India Should Stop Aping The West And Follow Its Own Milky Way
One of the most difficult things seems to be getting everything to work harmoniously as one tries to live sustainably. Since last year I've tried to veganise my life as best I can (since watching the...
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This Is The Closest You Can Get To Knowing The Real Shah Rukh Khan
This article is from Open Magazine. By Nikhil Taneja It's 12.45 AM, and this is the last of 13 print interviews that Shah Rukh Khan has committed to, and completed, over 10 continuous hours, besides...
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Achuthan Ramachandran's Ghunghats, Trees And Self-Portraits In Pots
A sari-clad Rajasthani woman picks petals, for a pooja perhaps, from a tree, surrounded by winged creatures and a watchful monitor lizard. But where the eye lingers longest is at the round-bottomed pot...
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10 Days In A 'Prison' Of My Choosing
I voluntarily submitted myself to prison for 10 days. I packed one bag with bare necessities and submitted myself, mind and body, to the Dhamma Sikhara Himachal Vipassana Centre. There I, along with...
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It Takes A Village, So One Popped Up In My Living Room
Baby care: All hands on deck (Photo: Nidhi Dutt) In the West, people often say "It takes a village to raise a child," but on the ground the notion that it's an entire community's job to care for kids...
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How Pranayama Can Help You Achieve Work-Life Balance
Image: Shutterstock Here is how the day looks for a working parent--wake up in the morning, rush to the toilet, wake kids up, catch a brisk walk (perhaps), have a shower, grab a quick breakfast and...
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Photoblog: Risking Life And Limb Is The Everyday Reality Of LoC Villages
Living in the fortified border villages in Indian-administered Kashmir is not very different from being in a war zone. Violence, landmine explosions and cross border-shelling between the Indian and...
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Divorce Is Hard, But Must We Make It So Ugly?
As adults we want to discipline our children and set them on the right path so that they can be successful in life (happiness, somehow, is not counted as success). We teach them values like honesty,...
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3 Damage Control Measures That Could Help Modi Win 2019
It's seems just like yesterday when PM Narendra Modi single-handedly decimated the Congress, giving it the worst defeat it had experienced since the regime of Indira Gandhi. Back then, PM Modi won...
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Why Vanaspati Ghee Should Come With A Warning Label
My mom leaves for work at 6am every morning, which means I make my own breakfast (three fried eggs with sautéed vegetables, and a protein shake). I fry my eggs in butter. I know most people would call...
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My Child's Beginning To Believe In God, And It's Partly My Fault
I really thought raising godless children would be easy. Around the time I got pregnant, I was deeply impressed by a CNN iReport, "Why I Raise My Children Without God" written by a Texan mother who...
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Exclusive: Doctors And Hospitals Are Playing With Lives For Profit, Say...
In their book Dissenting Diagnosis, doctors and activists Abhay Shukla and Arun Gadre give us a chilling inside account of widespread malpractices afflicting the healthcare industry. The nexus between...
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Dear Justice Dave, Here's How You Can Make The NEET Order Stand Up To Scrutiny
Dear Justice Dave, I edit Careers360, a magazine and portal that seeks to help students make better education and career choices by providing authentic information. We serve about 8-10 million children...
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Qawwali And The Sufi Tradition: Music That Unites
The annual commemorative festival, or urs, of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Gharib Nawaz (1141 AD-1236 AD), the emancipator of the poor, the founder of the Chishti order of Sufism in South Asia takes...
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The Genius Behind Satyajit Ray's Little-Known Geekery
It is a tragedy that most Indians think of Satyajit Ray almost exclusively as the serious filmmaker who made complex award-winning cinema about poor villagers and conflicted women. They couldn't be...
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The Hijinks Of Delhi's 'High-Class' Travellers
If you ever want to confirm your place in the world, drive in the jungle that is a Delhi road. I'm in the Capital and en route to Delhi airport. The tree canopy of Shanti Path lulls me when suddenly I...
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Meet The 'Deaf Artist' Who Plays With Sound
Photo Credit: 2015 Hideto Maezawa / Clubberia Artist Christine Sun Kim explores the materiality of sound, connecting it to drawing, painting, and performance, in her work. A TED fellow, she has...
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Love, Laughter And Catfights: The Murky World Of Mommy Groups
There's a new playground, people. A new cafeteria. A new battleground. It's a bit like Mean Girls, a bit like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, a bit like Game of Thrones, with a dash of Dr Spock thrown...
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