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Language fails when you are on a mountain; silence is the best companion. There, no conversation is complete unless it is through tears. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD shares the mystical insights of trekking in an unknown hilly area called Parunthumala in the Western Ghats. Photographs by AMEEN AHSAN. The fact that Parunthumala has not yet been marked on the internet, by trekkers and travelers,
» Read moreThe real magic was in store after the show. A blind boy’s joy. His poor nanny’s love and compassion. No magic wand has ever been as powerful as a loving hand. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD remembers a magic show he happened to see with a visually challenged child. There was a magic show going on in the children’s pavilion at the 30th edition of
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Ismael Ferroukhi’s film Le Grand Voyage takes the viewer on a pilgrimage of soul, through subtle and striking transformations, writes MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. There isn’t a thing called way; rather it is what you make when you walk, goes an Urdu saying. Le Grand Voyage is about the paths one is bound to take in a lifetime. Not in the obligatory sense
» Read moreRamadan is a month of memoirs of bereavement, paths to healing reconnections and reconciliations. When Ramadan essentially bids adieu, something deeply strikes my mind. I dearly miss two intimate souls, who have been with me, for many years, through the days and nights of this month. They, in different ways, connected me to the holiness and sacred meanings of this month.
» Read moreby MUHAMMED NOUSHAD Sufi stories always fill your heart with warmth and your soul with longing. “Could you send a kiss to your beloved by a messenger?”, a Sufi master once asked when one man approached him to ‘learn’ Sufism. Each human being’s spiritual quest is essentially unique and personal. What the Sufi master wanted to convey by
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