The Uttar Pradesh Police has booked over 800 people, arrested 24 and detained 12 for questioning in connection with rioting and violence in Kanpur, officials said on Saturday. Kanpur Police Commissioner V S Meena said the accused will be booked under the stringent National Security Act and the Gangster Act while the possible role of groups like Popular Front of India (PFI) and
Jawaharlal Nehru shaking hands with Dilip Kumar
MUMBAI: In the early 1960s Dilip Kumar shared a stage with Jawaharlal Nehru at a public meeting at Chowpatty.
After Dilip saab, as he was fondly called, passionately spoke in ornate Urdu, the crowd began to melt, forcing Nehru to joke with Kumar: “Barkhurdar, chalo chalte hain (dear, let us go).” But the thespian rose again, reprimanding the crowd that their PM was yet to speak and they should not leave unless “Panditji” (Nehru) finished his speech. The gathering froze in silence.
That was the power of oratory Dilip Kumar commanded. Asif Farooqui, Bandra-based businessman and a close family friend of Kumar and his wife Saira Bano, to whom the actor once narrated the Chowpatty incident, recalls that Kumar genuinely loved Urdu, patronized poets and mushairas and participated in social works.
The visionary maulana
A senior assistant editor with the Times of India, Mohammed Wajihuddin writes about Muslims, their issues, hopes and aspirations. Committed to upholding inclusiveness, communal amity and freedom to dissent and debate, he endeavours to promote peaceful existence. A passionate reader of Islam, he endeavours to save the faith from the clutches of the jihadists. An ardent lover of Urdu poetry, he believes words are the best weapons to fight jingoism. LESS. MORE
After I was uprooted from then intellectually vibrant Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and planted in Patna in the late 1980s where I lived till 1993, I tried to made up the loss through writing letters to the editors of newspapers. I became so prolific a letter writer, mostly to the editor then Uttam Sengupta was the Resident Editor, of The Times of India in Patna that many readers began inquiring about me. Then TOI Patna would carry at least three letters of mine in a week. To increase interactions with t