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An eco-friendly heritage handicrafts shop with a focus on community empowerment is Abati. Kayalpattinam’s heritage and culture are preserved here in the form of beautiful artifacts. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD visits the space and narrates its story. A small wooden board, written ‘Abati’ on it, hangs on the outer wall of an ancestral house on Thaika Street in Kayalpattinam. Inside the traditionally
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ഗോവയിൽ വച്ച് ഹൃദയാഘാതത്തെ തുടർന്ന് അന്തരിച്ച ആര്ടിസ്റ്റ് മിഥുന് മോഹനെക്കുറിച്ച് എം.നൗഷാദ് എഴുതുന്നു. [Originally published in THE CUE] “The self is an ocean without shore. Gazing upon it has no beginning or end, in this world and the next”. – Ibn Arabi പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട മിഥുൻ, അടുപ്പമുള്ളവരുടെ അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമരണം തീവ്രമായ ഏകാന്തതയിലേക്കും അനാഥതയിലേക്കും മനുഷ്യരെ എങ്ങനെയാണ് തള്ളിയിടുക എന്ന് നീ പൊടുന്നനവെ ഞങ്ങളെ അനുഭവിപ്പിച്ചു. അവിശ്വസനീയതയോടെല്ലാതെ, പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും അവിശ്വസനീയതയോടെ അല്ലാതെ, ഉൾക്കൊള്ളാനാവാതിരുന്ന
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Biju Ibrahim’s photo project reflects the unique spirit of Kochi’s Mattanchery through the family portraits of 38 distinct communities. Photographs by BIJU IBRAHIM and written by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. Places have souls and Mattancherry in the city of Kochi has a mystic one. Biju Ibrahim discovered this while documenting the lives of Kochi’s 38 communities through black and white pictures. Distinct
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Obituary of Kerala Muslim chronicler and renowned historian KK Muhammad Abdul Kareem; written in 2005. Historians become histories very rarely; Keedakkattu Kavungalakkandiyil Mohammed Abdul Kareem – Kareem master, as he was lovingly called by his disciples and friends – but was that. Writing history was not a profession for him, it was a mission: to painstakingly search the roots of
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Obituary With the demise of Dr. Sheikh Basheer Ahammed Muhyidin Al-Azhari, the Islamic world has lost a great Quran scholar, translator and preacher. It’s nearly impossible to introduce Dr. Basheer Ahammed Muhidin in one word: one of the great scholars of Islam of our times, an enthusiastically hard-working translator and interpreter of Quran into three foreign languages other than English.
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