DGP J&K Dr S. P. Vaid today decorated Munir Ahmed Khan with the rank of ADGP at a function held in the Conference Hall of DPL Srinagar.
DIG South Kashmir Range, DIG Central Kashmir, SSsP of South Kashmir and three districts of Central Kashmir and SSsP of different wings of the Police in Kashmir were present on the occasion, a police handout said.
Gul Shreen wife of Khan and Arsalan Munir Khan, his son were also present.
The DGP and the officers congratulated Khan on his promotion and wished him all the success in future.
The significant role of Muslims in the freedom movement of India is a well-established fact which cannot be obliterated by delation of the names of Muslim freedom fighters from the present-day history books and the indifferent attitude of modern media towards them. A recent instance of this attitude was observed in the very few and scattered references to Muslims in articles, write-ups and reports which have been appearing in newspapers for the last one month in the memory of the Salt Satyagraha, especially the historic Dandi March undertaken by Gandhiji.
It is beyond any doubt that Muslims participated in the Salt Satyagraha with same esthusiasm and zeal which they exhibited in other stages of the freedom struggle. It was with the same sense of involvement in the movement that Muslims fully participated in the famous Dandi March of 25 days (12 March ¨ 5 April, 1930) from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi village when Muslim villages on the route were neglected. But this did not dampen their spirit. Many of them joined Gandhiji in Dandi itself and also took part In the Satyagraha in other parts of the country.
It is a little-known fact that in Dandi village a Muslim had the privilege of being host to Gandhiji and it was from his house that he launched his Satyagraha. It is also notable that when in the course of setting out for Satyagraha at Dharasana (Gujarat) on 5 May, 1930, Gandhiji was arrested, the Satyagraha was led by Abbas Tayyabji, a prominent Muslim of Mumbai, and he too was arrested. Afterwards, Sarojini Naidu became the leader of the Satyagraha. The distinguished scholar and great freedom fighter Maulana Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi, who was teaching those days in Jamia Islamia, joined Gandhiji’s Satyagraha and was put into prison. It may be also recalled here that according to Maulana Asrarul Haq Qasimi, in those days Gandhiji enquired from Maulana Hifzur Rahman that he had heard that there is a Hadith of the Prophet (pbuh) which says that items of common use like water and salt are to be exempted from tax. Maulana confirmed it and presented the Urdu version of the Hadith to Gandhiji who was very pleased to see it.
The spark ignited by Dandi march spread to different parts of the country. In each city and town people took to streets for demonstration against the repressive Salt Act. They broke the anti-people salt law, defied the government order and were arrested in large number. Muslim participation in all these phases of the Salt Satyagraha is established by the historical records. Muslims too faced the brutalities of the British police along with their Hindu brothers. Apart from a large number of common Muslims, many Ulama were also put into prison during the Salt Satyagraha. They included Mufti Kifayatullah, Maulana Ahmad Sayeed Dehlawi, Maulana Habibur Rahman Ludhianwi, Mufti Muhammad Naim Ludhianwi, Maulana Ataullah Shah Bukhari, Maulana Fakhruddin Moradabadi; Maulana Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi, Mufti Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Maulana Muhammad Shahid Fakhiri, Maulana Sayyid Muhammad Mian Deobandi, Maulana Abdul Qadir Qasuri, Maulana Muhammad Sadiq Karachwi, Maulana Abdul Aziz Gujaranwala and Maulana Bashir Ahmad.
The role of fatwas of the Indian ulama in the freedom movement has been quite effective. It was the famous fatwa of Shah Abdul Aziz against the British government in India (which was later endorsed by hundreds of other ulama) which prompted Muslims to wage jihad against the British and set the freedom movement in motion. Moreover, the fatwas issued by eminent ulama at each crucial stage of the freedom struggle including non-cooperation, civil disobedience and Salt Satyagraha gave great impetus to the movement. Mufti Atiqur Rahman Usmani, the distinguished jurist and freedom fighter, is reported to have issued a fatwa that no government has right to impose taxes on items like water and salt. If any government dares to do this, it becomes necessary for the people to oppose this action and to struggle to get rid of it. These are only some examples that show the participation of different sections of Muslims in the Salt Satyagraha,. Full facts may be brought to light through going into the official records and historical works of that period.
It is a known fact that deliberate attempts are being made by a section of modern historians and writers of the text-books of history to negate the role of Muslims in the freedom movement of India. But inspite of this sinister design, the fact could not be suppressed that India would not have seen the light of the indepence without the joint efforts of Muslims and Hindus and the sacrifices of the different sections of Indian society. The plain truth is that after their arrival and settlement in India centuries ago, Muslims made it their home and considered it their duty to work for the interest of their homeland and to contribute to the overall development of the country.
As a matter of fact, Muslims started the freedom movement and worked whole-heartedly to make it successful with the same sense of duty. In the present scenario, it becomes an obligation on all of us to highlight the role of Muslims in the freedom movement and the progress of the country through different means. It is heartening to know that in the present situation of working of some divisive forces against Muslims, there are many justice and peace-loving non-Muslims like Professor I. K. Shukla who cooperate with Muslims to project the Muslim contribution to the development of India from medieval to modern times.
Dr Zafarul Islam Islahi teaches in the department of Islamic studies, AMU, and may be contacted at zafarul.islam@gmail.com«
source: http://www.milligazette.com / The Milli Gazette / Home> Special Report / by Zafarul Islam Islahi / The Milli Gazette Online / 1-15 May 2005
His disarming quality was to avoid unnecessary arguments by deflecting the opponent with anecdotes and digressions
He had his university education in Allahabad, where he briefly taught in the Department of Persian followed by few months’ stints in the Life Insurance Corporation and the Provincial Civil Service of UP before joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1966 and being assigned Jammu and Kashmir cadre.
In Jammu and Kashmir, he served in various capacities till 1995 before moving over to the Aligarh Muslim University as Vice Chancellor, a position he held till July 2000. He retired as Secretary Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of India in March 2002 only to continue his active engagement with public affairs as Chairman (first Executive and then non Executive) of the Bombay Mercantile Cooperative Bank (BMC) till fairly recently.
His tenures in important positions be it as Principal Secretary (later Additional Chief Secretary), Home Department in J&K or VC AMU or with the BMC were marked by crises which he dealt with determination and generally on his own terms.
His contributions (and failures) were many but no one can deny that in success and adversity he remained in command and did not lose his aplomb. His signal contribution in the AMU was the relentless determination with which he worked towards freeing University land under unauthorised occupation and in that respect he succeeded where most Vice Chancellors in most of the older Universities had very limited success.
His innings with the BMC could be regarded as a mixed bag given the murky, almost sectarian atmosphere of the organisation, but there is no doubt that if he had not come at the helm of its affairs when he did, it would have been liquidated by the Reserve Bank.
For the most part my contacts with Mehmood Sahib were professional as between the first three years of his tenure in the AMU I headed the University and Higher Education Bureau in the Ministry of HRD and was the Central Government’s major contact point with the University till I moved over to the state of J&K on deputation.
As it happened, in three months or so that he spent with the state government during his tenures with the AMU and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs he was ‘attached’ with the organisation of the Resident Commissioner of the State in Delhi which happened to be within the remit of my responsibilities as Commissioner cum Secretary, General Administration Department.
During these periods, I had occasion to watch his professional side and personality to the extent it reflected in performance of his duties. The abiding impression of this fairly intense association is of a person who was clear headed about his objectives, who could tire down the opposition with his persistence without being rude or boorish.
His capacity for hard work and putting in long hours was phenomenal. His one disarming quality was to avoid unnecessary arguments by deflecting the opponent with anecdotes and digressions in a tactful manner which would not give offence to the other side.
He enjoyed power and liked a few people to hang around which is not uncommon among people who control, or are near, the levers of powers.
However, unlike many with these traits he did not lose his sense of proportion and would be fairly objective in assessment of his acolytes when called upon to judge them.
We had our differences of opinion, a few fairly significant, but if this did not affect mutual cordiality, I will give him the larger share for the spirit of amity.
He had a major neurological deficit last year and was on ventilatory support for a few days. The tenacious fighter that he was, he bounced back against heavy odds and in several conversations over the phone though his voice was weak, he was his ebullient self.
It was during the wedding of my colleague Asif Ibrahim’s daughter a few months back that I came face to face with him and realised that though the spirit was high the body was not keeping pace.
To my regret this was our last meeting though one could have met him during frequent visits to Mumbai. Possibly, he needed company of people with whom he could recount old campaigns valiantly waged unmindful of the outcomes.
This short tribute could be rounded off by the perceptive observation of one of his old associates from Kashmir who spoke to me earlier today.
He said there are many people who turn out to be larger than life, most in that category act the role for effect and clearly come out as humbugs; there are a few to whom this is a natural modus vivendi – they are ‘natural’ when acting thus and are likeable for this reason. That was Mehmood Sahib for you.
Author is a former IAS officer who retired as Secretary Government of India. / Naveed Masood / naveed.masood@gmail.com
source: http://www.risingkashmir.com / Rising Kashmir / Home> Obituary / by Naved Masood / July 10th, 2017
Feature-length documentary on the Wayanad tribe’s struggle for existence
A humdrum yet clear rendition of Penappattu, the ballad of the Paniyar tribe of Wayanad with its narrative on their origin and life, soaks the Paniya household in bereavement seven days after someone’s parting.
The intoner, Athali, takes no break as he calmly retells from morning, well into the brooding night, the course of his clan’s struggle for existence from the beginning. “It’s like a swirling song of the dead – the soul of their forbears rattling out their saga,” says Aneez K. Mappila, who has authored the life and death of Paniyars in a feature-length documentary, The Slave Genesis. “The tribe, as you see in the film, is deeply and inwardly spiritual.” The Paniyars believe that long ago, a feudal landlord, Ithimala Gowda, also referred to as Ithimala Pappan, had trapped them using a hand net and engaged them for labour in the fields.
“There is no paddy field, coffee or pepper plantation in Wayanad, especially those owned by settlers, that hasn’t used their labour. The practice continues to date,” says Aneez, from Kalpetta. The film, shot single-handedly over three and a half years, has a scene in which Aneez’s grandfather Moidu Haji, who has since died, narrates the story of his grandfather Pakramar, left with no other option, migrating to Wayanad in the 1860s with three of his friends. “They bought 32 acres of land from a Gowda, who also parcelled out a few Paniyars for tilling their fields. The Paniyas were paid in kind, with a portion of rice as wages,” Haji says in the film. It was his long association with the Paniya workers that prompted Aneez to make a film on their life and after-life. The film opens with a personalised childhood recollection. “I was a single-man crew and as I went about shooting, a suicide happened in the community, which led me to their pithy Penappattu.”
From a death and the superstitions surrounding it, the film takes us through various facets of the Paniya life, all punctuated with hardship, misery and tales of exploitation. “They realise they’ve been historically exploited, as we understand from the Penappattu in which the Gowda, eager to have more of their ilk, asks Paniya siblings to stay man and woman below the waist.”
Cut to modern times, scenes of the elaborate ritual following a girl attaining menarche are followed by episodes of young men getting entangled in POCSO cases, thanks to the tribe’s practice of marrying off girls young.
A graduate in English, he worked as a journalist for sometime before taking documentaries on Wayanad’s agrobiodiversity and tribal food security.
The Slave Genesis was produced with support from DOCEDGE-Bang, crowdfunding from the Kalpetta Film Fraternity and his own Canopy Black production.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kochi / by S. Anandan / Kochi – December 28th, 2017
In the year of 1987, Begum Zaffar Ali, the first woman matriculate of Kashmir was awarded a Padma Shri for her extraordinary perseverance in being a women’s liberation activist and working towards empowering women through education. Brought up in a conservative setting where women’s movements, ideologies and bodies were controlled by the patriarch of the family, the perseverance towards creating awareness regarding education was certainly extraordinary.
Early years
Born in 1900, Begum Zaffar Ali was an educationist, women’s liberation activist and a social worker. She was also a legislator. Her maiden name was Syyeda Fatima Hussain, she was the daughter of Khan Bahadur Aga Syed Hussain the first matriculate of Kashmir, later Governor, Judge of the First High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, and Home and Judicial Minister during Maharaja Rule. Her mother Syyeda Sakina Sadaat belonged to a Sayyid family of Sabzevar Iran, which was an affluent business family in Kashmir.
Even though the place was largely conservative and Purdahwas considered an essential part of a woman’s life, her parents were mostly supportive of her natural inclination towards academics and encouraged her in her quest to be more informed and performing well in studies.
She had a Christian governess from Europe to familiarise her with formal education and there was also a separate tutor to teach Begum Zaffar Ali and her siblings religion. She was taught housekeeping, home science training, health education, society, family and childcare by her home governess.
Marriage and involvement with activism
She was married to her cousin – Agha Zaffar Ali and had three children. She managed to spare sufficient time for her education. Her husband was supportive of her endeavour and actively encouraged her to pursue academics and challenge herself.
In 1925, she was invited to join as a teacher at the girls’ school run by Miss Mallinson and Miss Bose in Fateh Kadal area of Srinagar. Despite her initial reluctance, she decided to join and started taking classes along with her children from their home tutor.
It was during this period she started her participation in social movements, and at a personal capacity started looking out for the girls she was teaching in schools. She taught them to maintain personal hygiene and inculcated good habits and etiquettes in them. Begum Zaffar Ali was not subtle about her love for education and she was suggested by the home tutor to take the matriculation exam.
Initially, she was hesitant as no woman in the Valley had passed the matriculation before, but putting her initial hesitation aside and giving precedence to her love for education, she decided to appear for the examination in 1930. She successfully passed in the second division in the exam and was celebrated for breaking the glass ceiling.
Since she was the first Kashmiri woman to achieve this feat, she was awarded a gold medal for the same.
Social Activism
She completed her graduation in 1938, immediately after which she started pursuing her post-graduation. As a credit to her qualifications, she served as Head Mistress for several different schools in the Valley. A staunch believer in women’s rights, Begum Zaffar Ali literally went door to door to raise awareness regarding girls’ education in the Valley and persevered to empower them through education. Shortly after, she was also appointed as Inspector of Schools in Kashmir, rewarding the passion she displayed as an educationist.
Begum Zaffar Ali was a fine orator, and would often indulge in public speaking to create awareness for the cause she backed. She would speak at several public events and in schools and inspired adulation among girls in the Valley for the very same reason. Her strong presence in public life and consciousness of Kashmir was further strengthened by the Teachers Club.
Teachers Club organised events and public gatherings, and Begum Zaffar Ali was instrumental in laying the foundation for it. She was a key member along with Tara Devi, the Maharani of Kashmir. The purpose of the club centred around discussion of women’s issues and their rights and she was actively involved in the conversation regarding women’s movement in India. She was the general secretary of the Ladies Club. Pre-Independence, she was also the secretary of All India Women’s Conference .
She later left the conference after a chance meeting with Muhammad Jinnah and his sister Fatima Jinnah, she directed her efforts towards the emancipation of women and their liberation.
She held several posts in the Department of Education and served in various capacities. She served as principal in several schools, she served as an education officer, she served as chief education officer as well as the chief inspector in schools of Kashmir.
As a chief inspector, she also introduced mid-day meals in school. Before her retirement, she was also appointed as the Deputy Director Education Kashmir for her relentlessness in the matter of empowerment through education. She was also a member of the Social Welfare Advisory Board, Jammu and Kashmir.
Later years
Begum Zaffar Ali also established a technical training centre for women of limited means in the Valley, in the capacity of Deputy Chairman of the advisory board. Between 1977-82, she also became a member of the Legislative Assembly and tried to bring out various reforms for education and women’s emancipation along with other social issues. The policies she endorsed were by and large progressive and directed towards the upliftment of women.
In 1987, she was the recipient of Padma Shri, India’s highest civilian award for her social work and her perseverance in working for women’s liberation and education. However, later in a televised protest in Doordarshan, she returned the award citing the then Government’s harsh and unfair policies as a reason.
Image Credit: Academy of American Poets
Death
Begum Zafar Ali died in 1999 at the age of 99 at the residence of her son Agha Shaukat Ali in the United States of America. Her grandson Agha Shahid Ali an award-winning Kashmiri-American poet, wrote a poem in memory of her which was included in the collection The Veiled Suite : The Collected Poem .
source: http://www.feminisminindia.com / Feminism In India.com / Home> History / by Shruti Janardhanan / November 14th, 2017
Not far from Gali Mir Qasim Jan, where Ghalib’s haveli is situated, is Sharif Manzil. Here the descendants of the famous hakim Sharif Khan live in comfort. Among the hakims of Sharif Manzil were such physicians as Mahmud Khan and his sons, of whom Hakim Ajmal Khan (in sketch) became almost a legend in his lifetime. It was he who established the Hindustani Dawakhana nearby and also the Tibbia College in Karol Bagh.
At Sharif Manzil, which had dropped the suffix haveli, came rajas and maharajas and even government officials, besides ordinary people to seek medical advice from Ajmal Khan and his two elder brothers. During the “Mutiny” of 1857, the Manzil was guarded by the troops of the Maharaja of Patiala, who patronised the hakims. Ghalib too escaped arrest and destruction of his haveli because the hakims sent some of the Patiala soldiers to guard it. When Ghalib’s younger brother died and a sort of curfew order was in force in the troubled city it was under the protection of these troopers that the dead body was taken for burial.
Lala Chunna Mal’s haveli in Chandni Chowk is a 120-room building with shops below it. The haveli is partly occupied by his descendants, while the others have locked their rooms and gone to stay in modern bungalows in the posh areas of New Delhi. Chunna Mal, who belonged to the Khatri community, was an influential banker of the Mughals and a friend of the Sharif Manzil hakims, but after the “Mutiny” he came into the good books of the British, who allowed him (on payment) to take control of some Mehrauli palaces and Fatehpuri Masjid, which was given back to the Muslims only in 1877, otherwise it was closed to the namazis.
Skinner’s haveli in Kashmere Gate area is now a ruin of its former self and occupied by transporters. It was at this haveli that Col Skinner used to hold his lavish parties in which the main attraction was his friend and British Resident at the Mughal court, William Frazer. The Christmas, New Year and Easter get-togethers here have passed into legend.
The havelis of Mirza Jahangir and fellow-royal Mirza Babar in Nizamuddin were magnificent buildings during the last days of the Mughals and still retain some of their old grandeur.
source: http://www.thestatesman.com / The Statesman / Home> Features / Statesman News Service / December 17th, 2017
Vidharbha captain Faiz Fazal during a practice session on the eve of the Ranji Trophy finals against Delhi in Indore on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy
On the eve of the final, skipper Faiz Fazal was understandably upbeat and considered Delhi a beatable side.
Precisely 13 months ago, when Delhi and Vidarbha last met in their rain-hit Ranji Trophy match in Chennai, it surprised none when the seven-time champion gained the first-innings lead. A third-day washout clearly saved Vidarbha and left Delhi understandably frustrated.
But a lot has happened since then. On Friday, Vidarbha figures in its most important match of the National championship. On the eve of the final, skipper Faiz Fazal was understandably upbeat and considered Delhi a beatable side.
Fazal, who in last June gain India cap against Zimbabwe and became the first Indian in 16 years to make his One-Day International debut in this 30s, reflected on Vidarbha’s discipline, routines, preparations and match simulations to substantiate his point.
“We all are really happy and enjoying our cricketvery much. I don’t know why, we all believe that this season the trophy is ours. I want to have the feel of the trophy in my hands. I want to have that bite of success. So let’s see.”
In contrast, 20-year-old Delhi skipper Rishabh Pant reiterated well-rehearsed lines like, “We are only looking at our game and we want to play at our best. We want to play to our strength.”
Coach K. P. Bhaskar took over and explained, “When everyone contributes, a team clicks. We may not have (scored) too many big hundreds (this season) but everyone has been chipping in a fifty or a seventy or an eighty… we’re working as a unit and that’s what matters.”
Further, Bhaskar came out in support of the young, inexperienced captain.
“Rishabh was named captain last season itself. He led in the one-day games. He is improving. If the last game you had seen, there was a lot of improvement in his field-placing and the approach he has been able to inculcate in others.
“We discuss a lot many things when they (the players) come out in the breaks but otherwise he has been given a lot of free hand. In the end, they have to perform. No matter what you tell them, they have to execute those plans inside.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Cricket / by Rakesh Rao / Indore – December 28th, 2017
Illustration by Vinay Kumar | Photo Credit: 01dmc rvsmith
Providing a healing touch to the sick and the destitute, there are several stories associated with Hakim Ajmal Khan
An Oriental wearing a Western suit and carrying a small box walked down a street in Paris when he saw a man rolling on the ground. Quickly he took out something from the box and, after a few minutes, the man got up, clutched his stomach for a while and then, with a nod of thanks, walked away. The Oriental was Hakim Ajmal Khan who had put away his sherwani and pyjamas to don a suit during his visit to France in 1925. It was widely believed by generations of Delhiites that Ajmal Khan had a magic chest from which he took out medicines to effect near-miraculous cures, like that of a woman in England with an abnormal issue of monthly blood and an epileptic at an Iraqi shrine. He spent nine years as the guest of the Nawab of Rampur, where he revived a dying begum.
Over the years, since his death in 1927, people seem to have forgotten the great hakim whose lasting legacy is the Unani Tibbia College in Karol Bagh. But last week Jamia Millia Islamia held a symposium on the works of Hakim Sahib, who was one of its founders and also the first Chancellor in 1920. It was decided to set up a Hakim Ajmal Khan Institute for Literary and Historical Research in Unani Medicine at Jamia Millia. The proposed institute would translate the classical works on Unani medicine which are hitherto available only in Urdu and Arabic.
Hakim Ajmal Khan was descended from Hakim Sharif Khan. His father Hakim Mahmud Khan was one of the three sons of Sharif Khan and, interestingly enough, also had three sons of whom Ajmal Khan was the youngest. His elder brother, Hakim Abdul Majid died in 1901 and the second brother three years later. Ajmal Khan founded the Tibbia Conference in 1906 to bring hakims together for joint initiatives. His popularity increased with each passing year and he began to be regarded as a man whose views on medicine, politics and religion were widely respected, not only by Hindus and Muslims but also by Europeans like C. F. Andrews and Sir Malcolm Hailey, Chief Commissioner of Delhi. Mahatma Gandhi, six years younger than Ajmal Khan, was the one who opened Tibbia College in 1920 though he regarded Unani and other medicines as “black magic” and believed in natural cures.
It is interesting to note that Ajmal Khan started off by wearing the Mughal angarkhas, then switched over to the Aligarh sherwani and pyjamas and then suits for foreign visits he made in 1911 and 1925, besides the one in between to Shia religious places in the Middle East. When Ahmed Ali wrote his “Twilight in Delhi”, he couldn’t help mentioning the great hakim in it as the one who had attended to the novel’s hero, Mir Nihal after a paralytic attack. The hakim gave him rare medicines and also prescribed the soup of wild pigeons, caught by the Mir’s Man Friday, Ghafoor, whose own wife had died of abdominal ulcers since she was wedded at a young age to a much older. Even the hakim could not cure her as Ghafoor did not exercise restraint. But Mir Nihal surely benefited from his medication, as also the goat being masqueraded as a sick purdah woman and prescribed green grass.
Barbara D. Metcalf, who wrote a learned paper on Ajmal Khan and his family, recalled the words of the poet Hali on the death in 1900 of Hakim Mahmud Khan: “…Mahmud Khan’s strength was an honour to our race/ But he too, left the World. Alas, the fortune of our race/Ajmal Khan filled up the gap with élan. Not only that, he was also a born poet with the pseudonym of Shahid Dihlawi (possessed lover from Delhi) and left behind a dewan of his poetry, which he sometimes recited at mushairas and during debates on who was greater: Daagh or Zauq. Surprisingly enough Ghalib was left hanging in between.”
Being a man of common sense, despite dabbling in romanticism, he refused to entertain fakirs who claimed to have secrets of alchemy. Ahmed Ali writes about Mir Sangi who had wasted his wealth in trying to make gold and of Molvi Dulhan, dressed as “the bride of God in red sari and with bangles and long hair like a woman”.
According to the Moulvi, there is a prescription written on the Southern Gate of the Jama Masjid which no one has been able to unravel. It says (for alchemy is needed) “half a piece of That”! However the vital word describing ‘That’ is missing though a fakir once claimed that it was ‘actually a small, golden flower with red circles and dots on the petals”. When the problem was referred to Ajmal Khan he wrinkled his forehead and remarked “There are other things worth seeking instead of the art of making gold which remains a fantasy”. The writing on the masjid gate is just a brain teaser.”
The hakim sahib is then said to have walked away with a shrug of his shoulders, still what followed him was the belief that the Sharifi family had a special verbal formula (amal-i-taskhir) which never failed to effect a cure. It is not known whether Ajmal Khan divulged it to his successors but those who came for treatment to the Hindustani Dawakhana in Ballimaran probably thought he had, for after all wasn’t he the “Masiha-e-Hind!”.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Society / by R.V. Smith / May 31st, 2015
The students of Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, who took part in the 13th Conference of Young Climate Activists.
A team of nine students and their facilitator from Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, represented India for the first time in the 13th Conference of Young Climate Activists in the run up to the 23rd United Nations Climate Summit at the headquarters of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Bonn in Germany last month.
The students led by Tharunimm Jamal shared with the gathering at Bonn a report on climate change in India. The report was the result of four months of painstaking efforts by the students preparing blogs, researching and gathering information on climate change, a release said.
It added that Mr. Jamal presented India’s voice in green peace rally at Bonn and made some presentations on climate challenges facing the country. On return, Mayor Bonthu Rammohan met the team and presented it appreciation letters on behalf of the GHMC.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – December 23rd, 2017
Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali surprised the Telangana Legislative Assembly by speaking in Telugu. On the question raised by Congress MLA T Sudhakar during question hour, regarding issue of pattadar pass book to farmers, Deputy Chief Minister read the answer in Telugu.
Members of the houses patted the table in appreciation of his gesture.
Deputy Chief Minister not only read the written answer in Telugu but also gave the reply to the questions in Telugu. He was donning traditional ‘sherwani’ and ‘topi.
Siasat News
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Hyderabad> News / November 18th, 2017
