If a photograph is said to be worth a thousand words, the propaganda photographs (and a video clip) from the facility stand out for what they have unwittingly revealed about the state of the nation. By Nazarul Islam Nothing more can put India’s Prime Minister on fire—than a goof-up in the media optics! Some loyalists […]
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On the day Indian ‘PM Cares Fund’ was set up, a massive humanitarian crisis began to unfold in India – millions of migrant workers, some of India’s poorest people, began fleeing the cities after Mr. Modi imposed a sudden country-wide lockdown. For weeks, they walked hundreds of miles, hungry and thirsty, to reach their villages. […]
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(Photo Courtesy: BBC Feature Service -2016) This article is all about the complex of people of subcontinent having dark skin, and a multinational company’s business trick of introducing ‘Fair & Lovely’ cream some decades back but now, after the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement in the United States, the company has quickly changed its branding and […]
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The ‘Final Award’ in dividing Bengal was in the hands of an Englishman who was hesitant to come to India because of the ‘scorching heat’ and had no interest in the task assigned to him. By Avik Sarkar The Radcliffe Commission came up with the proposal of demarcating the territories of East and West Bengal, […]
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Suicide is a deeply disturbing issue, which still carries immense stigma and doesn’t receive the amount of attention it deserves. By Nazarul Islam Star dust appears to be receding in the eyes of Mumbai city’s dwellers. Bollywood may seem like one big happy family, but Sushant Singh Rajput’s death has shown there are deep cracks […]
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(Photo Courtesy: BBC) Many Hindus of East Bengal had good reason to fear for their safety after horrific riots and rapes against them there in the late 1940s. But many of the Muslims of West Bengal, especially the more privileged ones, who crossed into East Pakistan, were successful fortune hunters. By Nazarul Islam A large […]
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Agra-based singer has established ‘Royal Sindhi Ladies’ Club’ to organize cultural programs for teaching mother language to the children of Sindhi community She started music career 25-years after her marriage and sings in Hindi and Punjabi also but being a poet also she herself writes and composes Sindhi songs since last five years Sindh Courier […]
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More than 500 elephants have been killed due to human-animal conflict—via electrocution, train accidents, poaching and poisoning, in the last five years. The same conflict has led to the death of more than 2,000 humans in the same period. Studies have pointed out that this conflict is only going to rise owing to climate change […]
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The people must be allowed to think differently and imagine a different reality. By Nazarul Islam Obviously, when Narendra Modi took over India’s reins in 2014, he was lauded for being a fearless reformer. The Indian middle class and the nation’s corporate sector had expected that economic growth would surge under his stewardship. What Indians […]
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This is the story of a long journey of Treasure from Bhiria, Sindh to India and then to USA. The Treasure includes over 100-years old utensils, a scale and a gramophone, which late Atmaram Khilnani, cousin of late Rai Bahadur Dewan Kauro Mal Chandan Mal Khilnani, took to India at the time of partition in […]
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