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Hindu-Muslim bond remains intact despite acidic TV debates

Aasha Khosa A casual conversation with my young colleague Ameena Majid a few days before Eid-u-Fitr gave me the idea that social values are not controlled by a few cantankerous TV anchors and leaders who seem to be pushing a divisive narrative for TRPs and their votes respectively. Like most Muslims, Ameena fasted throughout the month of Ramzan and yet worked in the office as normal. One evening when she was ready to leave, I asked her...

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Meem Hai Zaffar translated Shiva Sutras to connect Kashmiris to their rich past

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Around four decades ago, Ghulam Mustafa Khawaja was working on his doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the Rajasthan University, Jaipur, where his teacher Prof Daya Krishna sought to strike up a conversation with him on Shiva Sutras, key scriptures of Kashmiri Shaivism. The Kashmiri scholar wore a blank expression and said, “I have never heard of it”. “Prof Krishna scolded me. He told me it was ...

From Kashmir to Kumbh: Ashraf Ali speaks of his divine experience

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Advocate Raja Ashraf Ali, a political activist and businessman from Kashmir, visited the Maha Kumbh mela at Prayagraj, where he took a bath at the confluence of Ganga-Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati at Sangam Triveni. “It was a divine experience,” Ashraf Ali says about his three-day pilgrimage. Speaking with Awaz-the Voice, Ashraf Ali said, “When the Maha Kumbh started, I happened to be in ...

International kho kho girl Nazia Bibi brings cheers to her tribe, J&K

Aasha Khosa/ New Delhi Weeks after the nomadic Gujjar-Bakerwal community of Jammu and Kashmir plunged into a state of shock as 17 tribesmen, women and children died of a mysterious disease in village Budhaal in Rajouri, a young woman has brought cheers to and restored the pride of the community. Nazia Bibi, a 21-year-old college student has become the first athlete from J&K to win gold in the International Kho Kho championship. Naz...

26/11 proved a watershed moment for India's war against cross-border terrorism

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The imagery of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the shock and pain that its perpetrators – Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists sponsored by Pakistan – inflicted on us left an indelible mark on the collective consciousness of Indians. The terrorists not only killed 166 people including foreigners but also firmed the Indian public’s resolve to support the government’s counter-terrorism and Pakistan policies. ...

Polls saw Omar Abdullah's rise as a leader but being CM of JK is no bed of roses

Aasha Khosa Omar Abdullah’s career as a politician took off at a high pitch – he almost walked into the Parliament of India straight from his drawing room as he effortlessly won the 1998 Lok Sabha election from Srinagar. A business management graduate, the 28-year-old Omar was offered what is a dream job for most people; Atal Bihari Vajpayee made him a Minister of State in his cabinet; first in charge of commerce and trade and ...

Navratri: Festival that reminds society of Indian women's power

Aasha Khosa Even atheists and agnostics would agree that Navratri, the nine-day festival celebrating the divine feminine energy called Shakti, or Maa Durga, is an empowering tool for Indian women and no other civilization or culture offers it to them. The festival, celebrated differently across India – the most festive celebrations happen in West Bengal and some other Eastern parts of India – is symbolically and figurativel...

400 Parsis born in 10 years yet more needed for community's survival

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi It’s one of the paradoxes of India that in a country with the largest population, the state is funding the birth of children. The generous funding is offered to Parsis, one of the most influential yet minuscule ethnoreligious communities with its origins in Iran, as its population has been on a fast decline for decades and reached the levels where the community is facing threat of extinction. The scheme call...

J&K Assembly Polls: Iltija, Sakina stand out as gutsy Kashmiri women leaders

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi This is the story of two Muslim women who are trying their luck in the Assembly elections in South Kashmir which along with adjoining areas of Jammu goes to the polls on September 18 in the first phase. Both are seeking votes in the name of legacy but have joined the male-dominated political arena under different and contrasting circumstances. The women are Iltija Mufti, PDP candidate from Bijbehara, who is seekin...

J&K Assembly Polls: Iltija, Sakina stand out as gutsy Kashmiri women leaders

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi This is the story of two Muslim women who are trying their luck in the Assembly elections in South Kashmir which along with adjoining areas of Jammu goes to the polls on September 18 in the first phase. Both are seeking votes in the name of legacy but have joined the male-dominated political arena under different and contrasting circumstances. The women are Iltija Mufti, PDP candidate from Bijbehara, who is seekin...

J&K Assembly will have a five-year term and it's a big change

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The forthcoming elections in J&K will lead to the forming of the Legislative Assembly with a five-year term. This is a big change as J&K was India’s only State where the Assembly enjoyed a six-year term for 49 years. This bizarre rule was because of the privileges enjoyed by J&K under the cover of Article 370 of the Indian constitution and often misused to serve the vested interests and political...

How Mudasir Dar changed the terror-hub image of 5 Pulwama villages

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The abolition of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir five years ago gave a fillip to the efforts of young Kashmiris like Mudasir Dar of Pulwama in bringing about a change on the ground by persuading the youth to shun the path of violence. Mudasir Dar, 27, of village Mugalpora, on the outskirts of South Kashmir’s Pulwama town, launched his mission to erase the image of Pulwama as a ...

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How a Haryana couple discovered the spiritual grandeur of APJ Abdul Kalam's personality

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi On the death anniversary of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the Sonepat couple Suman and Diwan Arora remember their visit to his hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu where they came in touch with the grandeur of his personality. It was one and a half year ago that the Aroras had embarked on a pilgrimage to one of the holiest sites of Hindus not knowing that their journey would also take them to another sacred place – a m...

Kargil War: Pak authors blast Army Chief Musharraf for misadventure

Aasha Khosa It was 25 years ago that Pakistan waged yet another misadventure against India to wrest Kashmir. This time, it ventured into the barren and icy heights of Kargil, far away from Kashmir. The incursion turned out to be the last straw on Pakistan's credibility in the eyes of India, and the world realized the catastrophic implications of Islamabad’s obsession with J&K. Further, the conflict exposed Pakistan&#...

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Young Scientist Muneer Khan runs online portal for underprivileged innovators of India

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi A farmer can insert a pencil-like device in the soil of his field; the reading mapped through a mobile app will show minerals in it. He would quickly know whether the soil is acidic or alkaline; which mineral is missing or deficit ior which is surplus and then tackle the situation with fertilizers for a good yield. This simple mineral-reading device was developed by Muneer Khan, a scientist who was recently confer...

What inspired Chanderbhan Khayal to pen world's longest poem on Prophet Muhammad

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Chanderbhan Khayal, a well-known name in the annals of Urdu literature, a Shatihya Akademy awardee, and author of 13 books, is the only person in the world to have penned a ballad in honor of the founder of Islam Prophet Muhammad. The Book, Laulak, comprises 400 couplets on 100 pages and has won him accolades and honours worldwide. What made Chanderbhan Khayal, a native of village Babai Basti in the Hoshangabad (s...

Why did the Reasi terror attack ring alarm bells in Delhi?

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Jammu, the other part of (Jammu and) Kashmir that rarely makes headlines, has gained the attention of the Narendra Modi government for its high vulnerability to terrorist attacks. In hindsight, one can feel bad that it came after nine pilgrims died in a terrorist attack on the bus that was carrying them and others from the cave shrine of Shiv Khori. In no time, Home Minister Amit Shah called the heads of Nat...

POJK people are no longer ready to put up with Pak's delusionary Kashmir policy

Aasha Khosa Na Khuda hi mila, Na visal-e-Sanam; Na Idhar ke rahe, Na udhar ke rahey`` (I didn’t get to meet the God; nor did I meet my beloved; I was left with being neither here nor there). This anonymous and popular Urdu couplet sums up the dilemma of the people of the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). This is not my opinion but what a young, educated, and well-established Muzaffarabad resident to...

Lok Sabha elections: No candidate in fray, yet BJP dominates campaign narrative in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa The Bhartiya Janata Party’s absence from the election scene in Kashmir where it has not fielded candidates on the three Lok Sabha seats is not being missed as the campaigning by main contestants is dominated by reference to the saffron party. More than calming the key contestants, its absence from the election scene has left some of them paranoid as they accuse each ot...

Muslims must focus on cracking non-UPSC exams for govt. jobs: Zafar Mahmood

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood, President of the Zakat Foundation of India, should be a happy man since 24 of the 100 Muslim men and women whom his organization gave scholarships for coaching for the coveted Civil Services examination for the year 2023, have made it. Of the 50 Muslims selected for the Indian Civil and allied services for 2023 the result of which was declared last week, 24 were sponsored by the ZFI. This i...

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