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Rahul, Seerat celebrate festivals as testimony to their love and mutual respect

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Asansol (West Bengal) When I met Seerat Jahan, a mother of four-year-old daughter Myra, she was busy preparing for Chhatth; a significant four-day festival of Sun worship among Hindus in eastern India. Seerat, a Muslim girl living in Asansol, West Bengal, is married to Rahul Rajat, a Hindu. I first met her on Diwali as she was joyfully creating a tiny mud house (gharonda) in which she had placed miniature clay utens...

Cultural assimilation of people comes alive in Asansol during Diwali

A trip to several local markets at Asansol on Dhanteras and Diwali reveals how the cultural assimilation of Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs here is nothing to brag about. It is ingrained in the Asansoli’s souls. The population has people from Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, and parts of the U.P making it a home forever. Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Asansol (West Bengal) All roads at Asansol, West Bengal in East India, are filled with toys- ...

Asansol's Durga Pujo offers a vast canvas of life, history, creativity, brotherhood

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Asansol Asansol in West Bengal once boasted of having the highest number of Mercedes Benz in India. Slowly, the world forgot this city. However, the people of Asansol continued with their pace of life. One can buy snacks like Aaloo chap for Rs. five, six gol-gappaas for Rs.10, and delicious sweets for under Rs.10 to date! And the fun part is, in this district town that was listed as the 11ith faste...

There is a lot more in theater that I want to explore: Naseeruddin Shah

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/ New Delhi An actor by heart is never contented; the day he is, he is dead. So they continue acting, thus normalising the unhindered naturalness of their skills on stage and in cinema. Naseeruddin Shah is one such actor. And then, there are two kinds of actors, one, who has bitterly learned to live with the fact that not all audience are educated about ‘theatre watching etiquettes’. Therefore, they are b...

Why Ramzan is a lowkey affair for glass bangle makers and traders of Firozabad?

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Firozabad (UP) Come Ramzan and Indian markets are full of attractive bangles for the ladies and children. While we adorn our babies and ourselves with these, buy some for gifting and festivals, weddings, or other ceremonies, we barely realize what goes into making these stunning plain to meenakari glass bangles; who burns the midnight oil so women could feel better flaunting them. The hub for glass bangles is Firoza...

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicines and Sciences is a legacy in four walls

Rana Siddiqui Zaman Known for its locks, Aligarh, a city in Uttar Pradesh, has also locked a legacy in its reserve - for generations to benefit from it. It houses a rare academy and museum called Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicines and Sciences. Located at Tijara House, amid a vibrant market place and residential area, Ibn Sina is hailed as the rarest house of legacies in arts and sciences combined under one roof. Named after ...

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Singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi burned crackers at 5 am on Diwali

Film magazines and sites are abuzz with stories of how film stars celebrate Diwali. Rana Siddiqui Zaman spoke to some film actors and asked them about their childhood Diwali and more Rana Siddiqui Zaman A 54-year-old Yashpal Sharma chuckled the moment I requested him to dig into his childhood Diwali. The Ganga-Jal fame actor whose Dada Lakhmi has turned him into an international icon with numerous awards for Haryana’s first epic ...

Diwali: The light that is, and will be

Indian Muslims celebrate Diwali with as much happiness as Hindus eagerly wait for Eid. It’s a shared culture that is here to stay. Aberrations don’t matter, says Rana Siddiqui Zaman It is a no-brainer to think that India, a land of several religions and faiths, has celebrated its festivals in harmony and a spirit of inclusiveness. Hindus have their Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, and Jain brethren to celebrate festivals ...

Etiquettes of Ramzan that not many Indians care to know about

Rana Siddiqui Zaman It’s 6.38 pm; iftar time for fasting Muslims in India. I am on my ‘dastarkhwan’ (long mat spread, for laying food items), ready to break my 17-hour roza (fast), with gratitude to Allah that I was able to endure hunger, thirst, headache, and a bit of physical weakness. My body is learning to heal from the month-long fasting. (The Nobel Prize for the year 2016 to Yoshinomori Oshum, a ...

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Dr Sarfaraz and family quietly changing lives of poor in Noida

Rana Siddiqui Zaman/Noida (UP) It is not rare to find Muslims doing social work silently, unwilling to promote themselves. One such person is Dr. Sarfarazuddin, a homeopath who lives in sector 105, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. He has been feeding 100 deprived people every day for the past five years and teaches students free. He brings ill and unknown covid-dead patients home bathes and buries them, all by himself, and even marries off ...

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