The Bookmobile is decorated with paintings of events from Ambedkar’s life, Ashoka chakras, and likenesses of the Phule’s by an artist called Raju. | Photo by Aatika S The project aims to collect Maharashtra’s long history of social reform, accessing 500-year-old traditions of song-writing, performances and poetry against caste-based exploitation …
Read More »SAGE India shuts publishing operation
New Delhi: Citing the pandemic and “other economic factors” SAGE India, a leading publisher of academic books, said on Thursday it was closing its publishing operation but would continue its “strong imported books” sales and journal publishing programme in India and that it was “actively looking for a new home” for …
Read More »AMU rejoices as Geetanjali Shree receives Booker
Aligarh: Geetanjali Shree’s incredible literary conquest of winning the prestigious International Booker Prize has enraptured Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) fraternity. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Tariq Mansoor said that the creative dexterity of famous Hindi fiction writer, Geetanjali has got international acclaim as she became the first ever Indian to get …
Read More »What is home? Adhir Biswas’ ‘Memories of Arrival’ presents an odd answer
Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is …
Read More »Kashmiri Women’s Struggle on for Political Empowerment Against All Odds
Zafarul-Islam Khan POLITICAL and social empowerment of women is a key area where all societies fail to some extent, more so our Indian society which essentially remains patriarchal. Kashmiri society, being traditional and rural, suffers more than other Indian areas. In India, despite all the progressive policies adopted by successive …
Read More »Hyderabad : Book emphasizing on ‘importance of life insurance’ for Muslims released
“Important to consider buying financial security,” say religious leaders during the release ceremony of Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki’s book “Life Insurance Today’s most important need” By Muslim Mirror Staff Hyderabad : Aleem Khan Falaki’s latest book “Life Insurance” was released at a function held at Hotel Ashoka, Hyderabad. Khatib-e-Shahi Masjid …
Read More »The Begum and the Dastan: Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth
NEW DELHI: She doesn’t really remember when she heard the story of the woman she named Feroza Begum in her book. Perhaps it was one of those tales her grandmother narrated when the children gathered around in the courtyard of their rambling home. “We loved to listen to the stories …
Read More »“Muslim Ummah- The way forward” provides an answer to what Islam asks of us as humans
By Nikhat Iqbal Today we stand in a moment,or many moments,where people talk about the world being broken.For many of us,globally and historically it has been broken and breaking and completely destroyed already, time and time again. How do we move forward then? How do we reconceptualise societies that are …
Read More »Muslim man’s library with 4,000 copies of Bhagavad Gita, Quran and Bible set on fire
By Muslim Mirror Staff New Delhi: Miscreants burnt a library run by a 62-year-old daily wage in Mysuru city of Karnataka on Friday. There were over 11,000 books in the library, including 3000 beautiful copies of the Bhagavad Gita, over a 1000 copies of the Holy Quran and Bible, reported …
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