Month: October 2024

‘Paradise’ – A Parable of Our Political Sensibilities

Cinema, Film Review

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews reputed Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage’s multi-lingual movie Paradise. How worthy is a life, when it belongs to someone from a subjugated ethnic community with absolutely no privilege? In Paradise, this question becomes central to a realm of several moral and ideological questions when a young Tamil boy from an estate breathes his last in a small

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Poa Mecca: A Shrine and Many Stories in Assam

Sufism, Travel

Muhammed Noushad visits the Chishtiya sufi Ghiyasuddin Auliya’s grave in Hajo, Assam. The unexpected early summer shower gave a calm, inviting charm to the small town of Hajo, situated by the mighty Brahmaputra in Kamrup district, around 30 km away from Guwahati. Hajo is a sacred town for three communities in Assam: with several Hindu temples, a Buddhist pilgrim centre

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