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Asif Basra, who acted in many Bollywood films and known to American audience for his role in Outsourced, committed suicide by hanging. He was found dead on 12th November, 2020 in his private property on lease in McLeodganj, a tourist hotspot suburb of Dharamshala in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India. On the suicide of…
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Razia Sajjad Zahir, wife of the Sajjad Zaheer was an author in Urdu and translator. She was born on 15th October, 1918 in Ajmer and left for heavenly abode on 18th December, 1979. She was also prominent member of the Progressive Writers Association. She was awarded the Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award and Soviet Land…
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It is not a hidden fact that a great number of Indian Muslims are convert from the communities and castes found in the South Asia and many of them still have some customs and traditions of their caste from which they converted to Islam and on this very basis the RSS and its offshoot organizations…
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Memons are a Muslim ethnic group originating from Indian subcontinent. Traditionally, the Memons have been a mercantile community. But, as the years have passed, they have increasingly diversified in to various other professions. Memons are known for their involvement in philanthropy. A number of mosques, orphanages, sanatoria, educational institutions, dispensaries, hospitals, musafirkhanas, societies, etc. have…
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Abandoned by her mother at 4, married off at 12 to an abusive husband, a mother herself at 13 — there is little in Baby Halder’s traumatic childhood to suggest that she would become an emerging star on India’s literary horizon. A single parent at 25, struggling to feed her three children by working as…
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Adabi Miras (Heritage of Literature) is a portal dedicated to the Urdu language and literature aspiring to provide resource materials and texts of Urdu curriculums prescribed in the educational institutions, colleges and universities in addition to highlighting the sublime values and legacy of literature before the audience. Although the site is in its initial journey,…
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Begum Hazrat Mahal (بیگم حضرت محل ) [name in Urdu] (c. 1820 – 7 April 1879), also called as Begum of Awadh of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. Wajid Ali Shah met her in his palace. She arose against the British East India Company during the first freedom movement of 1857. She finally found…
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An iconic name, an unforgettable face … be it the dance, theatre, television and silver screen there is no platform that Zohra Segal did not grace with her mesmeric presence in a career that spanned across sixty-years and two continents. Zohra Segal (or sometimes spelled as Segal) was born as Sahibzadi Zohra Mutazullah Khan Begum…
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Hazrat Khwaja Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar was one of the most brilliant personalities of the Chishti Order of Sufis in India. After the untimely death of Hazrat Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, the mantelpiece of India’s spiritual leadership within the illustrious Chishti Order fell upon the shoulders of Hazrat Khwaja Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar of Pakpatan, popularly known as…
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Nilanjana Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Nilanjana Sudeshna’s debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Putlizer Prize for Fiction and the PEN / Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the…
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