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MERE BHI HAIN RAM – मेरे भी हैं राम

मेरे भी हैं राम Essay by Qurban Ali published in the Hindi magazine Kadambini in APRIL 2013 Read here – Link  

Created Date : February 27, 2024
February 27, 2024 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Amir Khusro – हिंदुस्तान की तहज़ीब और सक़ाफ़त में अमीर ख़ुसरो की खिदमात

  Qurban Ali’s  ‘Kabir Memorial lecture delivered at JNU on 28th March 2014, and published by Sufinama website in March 2020.   https://blog.sufinama.org/amir-khusrau/

Created Date : February 27, 2024
February 27, 2024 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

डॉक्टर राही मासूम रज़ा/RAHI MASOOM RAZA(1st August 1927-15 March 1992)

  डॉक्टर राही मासूम रज़ा by Qurban Ali मशहूर साहित्यकार डॉक्टर राही मासूम रज़ा को ज्यादातर लोग फ़िल्मों के डायलॉग और दूरदर्शन के धारावाहिक ‘महाभारत’ के डाॅयलाग लेखक के रूप में जानते हैं। लेकिन राही की असल शख्सियत इस सबसे बिल्कुल मुख्तलिफ थी। फिल्मी लेखक बनने और  बंबई (अब मुंबई) जाने पर तो उन्हें अलीगढ़ मुसलिम…

Created Date : February 27, 2024
February 27, 2024 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Netaji would have been horrified at the State’s extravaganza and triumphalism of the Ayodhya Temple event

23-Jan-24 Satya Narayana Sahu‘s article in NewsClick is a must read for right-wingers and acolytes of Mr Modi Right-wingers display little knowledge of true history. They have revived the discredited two-nation theory the British invented to divide and rule India. Satya Narayana Sahu’s article brings this fact out clearly. Modi-Shah of course flog it for…

Created Date : January 25, 2024
January 25, 2024 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Contrasting Consecrations at Somnath and Ayodhya Temples

Satya Narayana Sahu, in his timely articles in NEWSClick (Link) and The Wire (Link), shines a light on the secular behaviour of our late PM Nehru and contrasts it with the totally non-secular and overboard triumphalist extravaganza happening at Ayodhya. Nehru was not alone in the stand he took to avoid participation in the Consecration…

Created Date : January 21, 2024
January 21, 2024 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Gandhi, Vivekananda, Tagore, and Temple Consecration

The Ayodhya Temple consecration on 22nd January 2024, is being planned as a spectacle choreographed around the Prime Minister. This piece by Satya Narayana Sahu which was published in The Long Cable and The Wire earlier this week, is a reflection on the show boat and triumphalist Mr. Modi is. And it is also a…

Created Date : January 11, 2024
January 11, 2024 Communal Harmony Mahatma Gandhi anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

We Could Do With Putting on Gandhi’s Glasses – Now Reduced to a Swachh Bharat Logo

2-Oct-23 is the 154th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 2nd October is known as Gandhi Jayanti in India. MKG is known as Mahatma Gandhi and Father of the Nation for his contributions to not just India’s freedom movement but also defining and shaping the ethos of non-violence and inclusivity accepted by (most) Indians. The…

Created Date : October 2, 2023
October 2, 2023 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

How to deal with anchors of TV channels who are hate mongers?

For few years now many TV Channels and News Papers have come to be known as Godi media as they unabashedly push the ruling party’s agenda. In India, they have clearly failed to uphold the role of the 4th Pillar that Press is supposed to provides to the edifice of a democratic system. The Government…

Created Date : September 21, 2023
September 21, 2023 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

INDIA tries to reduce hatemongering – boycott of many news channel anchors

19-Sep-23 Ashutosh, a senior Journalist, writes about hatemongers and press freedom. His article in Deccan Herald is titled: Of journalism, hatemongers, and press freedom 14-Sep-23 The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani interviews Alok Sharma of INC after INDIA formation decided to boycott 14 anchors. INC had already boycotted many channels, for e.g. Republic channel of Arnab…

Created Date : September 19, 2023
September 19, 2023 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

Remember 9/11 For The Inclusivity Of Hinduism Swami Vivekand Spoke Of And Also The Dangers Of Fanaticism

9/11 is a date the whole world remembers for the attack by Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans including few foreigners. In today’s world, radicalised religious people can wreak havoc was brought home by the spectacular suicidal attack that involved crashing four fully laden commercial jets after…

Created Date : September 13, 2023
September 13, 2023 Communal Harmony anilsrivastava@sdindia.com