Mohsina Malik
Delhi’s Nest Man Rakesh Khatri grooms eco-warriors
January 2, 2023
Holding a bag full of bird food, 60-year-old Rakesh Khatri, a photographer living in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, starts his day by feeding birds and keeping water for them in his neighbourhood. By the time this morning ritual is over, a group of about 10 persons, belonging to dif...
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Making memories in mountains: Gurez Valley
December 31, 2022
Going on unexplored journeys can make for most memorable happenings that stay with one through the life. Moreover, to go on such a journey with close friends turn these memories sweeter still. Discovering the offbeat town of Gurez in Bandipora in Kashmir is one such memory that w...
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Female bouncer Mehrunissa Shaukat tosses gender bias out of bars
December 29, 2022
She still recalls the time when she, along with her family, shifted from Saharanpur, a small, sleepy town in the hills of Uttar Pradesh to the bustling capital New Delhi. It was in 2003 that Mehrunissa Shaukat Ali was forced to move, along with her family, as her father had inc...
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Bringing Gurjar community together with Gurjar Mahotsav
December 26, 2022
Located in the southern fringe of Delhi, Surajkund is a huge fairground best known as host of the annual handicrafts fair, Surajkund Mela that attracts thousands of artisans from all over India for a fortnight-long fair each February. However, last week, the ground saw a differen...
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Bharat Jodo Yatra finds enthusiastic support in Delhi
December 25, 2022
Continuing his attacks on current dispensation led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Bharatiya Janata Party government and its parent far-right organisation the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for spreading communal hatred in the country instead of working to resolve the pro...
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Rousing reception for Rahul Gandhi as Bharat Jodo Yatra enters Delhi
December 24, 2022
Thousands of people were already gathered at Badarpur border in south Delhi just as first rays of sun had barely begun to penetrate the dense smog of toxic fumes that have enveloped the national capital for over two weeks. Waving both the tricolors, the National Flag and the Cong...
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Kisan Garjana Rally- Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Organises Farmers’ Protest in Delhi
December 20, 2022
Over 55,000 farmers from various states of India staged a protest at Ramlila Maidan of Delhi on Monday in a rally organised by Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The organisers say that the Kisan Garjana pro...
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Maulana Azad National Fellowship cancellation riles student bodies
December 14, 2022
On December 9, 2022, Minister of Minority Affairs, Smriti Irani announced that the government was terminating with immediate effect the Maulana Azad National Fellowship, a bursary for students from minority communities. “The MANF scheme overlaps with various other fellowship sc...
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Niyaz Hussain: Painting away pain of polio
December 11, 2022
On a sunny afternoon at around 2:30 pm, there is a group of children waiting impatiently at the entrance of Noor Nagar, a slum in south-east Delhi’s Okhla. This is a weekly routine for the children, who turn up eagerly once every week to the same spot and wait. The children are...
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Muslim women divided over Jama Masjid ban
December 3, 2022
Ultimately, the ban did not last even a day and it was rapidly withdrawn in face of escalating controversy across the country. On November 24, a notice was put up at the gates of the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India, saying that entrance of unmarried girls or group of gir...
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Zool: Fest of faith in Kashmir
November 30, 2022
Every April, the shrine of Hazrat Zain-ud-Din Wali, a renowned 15th century sufi saint, features a unique sight as thousands of people march the streets in Aishmuqam village of Anantnag district in Kashmir, carrying blazing torches, or zool. The group ascends a hillock in the vil...
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