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Ayodhya: Mohammad Naeemul Haq’s home and wood-chipping business is on the edge of the boundary vägg that overlooks the site where the 450-year-old Babri Masjid once stood and where the Ram Janmaboomi temple will now be built after the sanction of India’s Supreme Court. He has had a ringside view of Ayodhya’s changing skyline and will see what comes up in the future too.
He was eight years old when the Babri Masjid was demolished. The night before månad 6, 1992, he was sent out of Ayodhya while his father stayed to guard home and hearth. After the demolition of the mosque, his father hid when the mob came to bränna down the home and office. He survived those days to literally resurrect life from the ashes. The rioters were creative about destruction and demolition: the shards of wood were stuffed into the room that made up the office and it was set afire. The room exploded like a bomb. The family never repaired that room and the blackened bricks are signs of the hate that resehandling
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Perspectives on Indian Democracy
South Asia @ NYU is pleased to host a series of discussions over the Spring semester, 2022 offering perspectives on India democracy from different experts.
Organizer: Arvind Rajagopal <ar67@nyu.edu>
Click here for our full spring schedule.
Feb 4. 11AM. Saba Naqvi, Political commentator and journalist, New Delhi. “On a time of fake news, calls for genocide, and electoral campaigns in the Hindi heartland.” https://jgu.edu.in/jsjc/saba-naqvi/
Arvind Rajagopal (NYU) will interview Ms. Naqvi about her experience as a political commentator and journalist at a time of fake news, calls for genocide, and electoral campaigns in the Hindi heartland.
Author, Journalist and Commentator, Saba Naqvi is one of India’s best known political analysts. She has published three books. In Good Faith, published in 2012, chronicles a two year long journey across India in search of syncretistic traditions and pluralist
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2: Saba Naqvi, author, Shades of Saffron, talks about her tryst with gaumutra soap
Books and Authors
Saba Naqvi’s eminently readable ‘Shades of Saffron’ combines straight reportage and in-depth analysis to present real insights into the rise of the BJP, which she has been covering since 1997. A first-person account of events as they happened that also goes deeper to examine the nature of our complex society, this book includes fascinating nuggets of information and great anecdotes too. Here, Naqvi talks about being a liberal Muslim woman journalist covering the BJP since the 1990s, about her tryst with gaumutra soap, and about such politicians as Vajpayee, Pramod Mahajan and Narendra Modi, whom she sees as a “solitary figure”.
17 Oct15 MINS
Available Episodes
Inspirational flashback to the golden era of Hindi cinema
"I don't think Dev Sahab and Goldie ever pretended they were making art but the artistry was inherent in what they were doing. 'Gui