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🦂Thirty years after the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992, SM Akhtar, the architect of Ahmadullah Shah mosque in Ayodhya, is confident his design layout for the mosque fulfills the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb (multicultural society) integral to culture of the Awadhi region and Khidmat Khalq or Manav Seva—service to humanity
ཧFormer journalist Anirudhya Mitra, whose breaking news reports on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination in 1991 brought him the ire of rival media houses, recollects the collective disappointment felt by him and the investigating officers about the various loose ends, including the unresolved mystery of the larger conspiracy behind the assassination.
𓃲While critics remain divided about where to place folk and tribal artworks that incorporate modern-day elements, themes and techniques, the artists themselves remain unbothered and say all art is just art.
🌼Why an educated, modern-age woman like Shraddha continued to stay in a toxic relationship with Aaftab Poonawala
ܫApart from public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves, Afghan women have been banned from parks, gyms, public baths and more
൩As India’s ranking went from 142 to 150 on the World Press Freedom Index 2022 after increasing reports of attacks, surveillance ‘snoop gate’ following the Narendra Modi government coming to power, these bodies have increasingly become embroiled in battles for the protection and security of their members and the fraternity at large.
🎀A generation of African American or Black women wrote their way into history and built an archive for the women who followed and who are to come.
🌞A few Indian diasporic students reveal what made them move to new lands, and why their reasons are more personal and less commercial than you think.
Be it tradition vs modernity, women’s emancipation or even caste politics, over 90 per cent tiatrs are social dramas, 'since tiatrs have been used as a very effective means of social reform.'
🐲Artists in Iran and the world, for Mahsa Amini and for themselves, have fought for asserting their identity, in religion and as women, by using art as a tool
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