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Articles with tag: van

Miley Sur Mera Tumhara

Shantanu Dutta   Oct 13, 2008   interacts: 22

These days it is not enough any more to be a Hindu alone. No – indeed you have to be a particular kind of Hindu.

Vanaja: A Movie That Moves Your Heart

Ras Siddiqui   Oct 4, 2007   interacts: 11

Either Writer-Director Rajnesh Domalpalli is one of the luckiest first filmmakers around or true contender for future international movie fame.

Gone is Caravan...

Beej K Singh   Oct 19, 2006   interacts: 107

Gone is caravan - seek my eyes in vain
All I see is dust - dust full cloudy train

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey   May 3, 2006   interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Ba, Beti aur Bahu

Farzana Versey   Apr 5, 2006   interacts: 95

Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?

Bunty aur Babli: The latest RSS-BJP tango

Farzana Versey   Jun 20, 2005   interacts: 289

The con-game has been going on for over a decade.Advani was the RSS’ foot soldier who did all he could in Pakistan to lay the foundation for the return of Hindutva. He followed his brief well: Create confusion and fulfil the mission of the hardliner

Advani in Karachi

Beena Sarwar   Jun 5, 2005   interacts: 665

'There are many people who leave an inerasable stamp on history. But there are a few who actually create history. Qaed-e-Azam Mohd Ali Jinnah was one such rare individual,' commented India’s opposition leader and Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal

The Tiresome Transport Travesty

Ali Pracha   Apr 22, 2005   interacts: 15

Music that blared through the cheap speakers. The side panels were covered in scrawls of ballpoint ink complete with email addresses and invitations to young girls to ‘plees contect’...

Snarl!

Nadeem F Paracha   Jan 9, 2004   interacts: 109

This “religious” fashion show is going beyond the personal self. If countries and society can (and should!) heap scorn at swastika-wearing neo-Nazis, so should they at people trying to make religious statements with hijabs and crosses, especia

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