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The curious case of Muslim Kerala’s Communist Apostles

Why don’t the apostles, devout preachers who carved a niche in Malabar for ‘Shaykh Marx’ and ‘Hazrat Lenin’, become full time Party members?

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Silence of the Kashgar Daughters (Txt ver)

What would it be like to set foot on that timeless soil where Past and Present played hide and seek from the other? My head lectured on the impossibilities even as my heart whispered about the possibilities. And I knew Truth would finally triumph even if Falsehood would stage its deceptive dance to snare my dream. Heart got its due, but after patiently knocking for more than ten years at Destiny’s doors.

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Of Bukhara’s Brides & Babar’s Belligerence : A Travel Tale to Timur’s Towns

With the Two Bs, Baber and Bukhari, I had to acknowledge the Uzbek contribution to my creed and country… Jaihoon’s @ Uzbekistan, Oct 2014

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Death – The Nemesis of Human Mortality: No more Grand Prayer from my Grandmother

Nothing does more damage to our creative ambitions than the loss of our dearest well-wishers- writes Mujeeb Jaihoon

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Freedom is the oxygen of the Intellectual

This article is in response to a Twitter discussion, on public intellectuals in the gulf, triggered by the writer’s comment, I thought “public intellectuals” in the Gulf was an oxymoron!

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