Fund Collection Rallies for Ayodhya Temple Kindle Communal Tension in MP, Mobs Attack Villagers flee
Mobs, in the hundreds, allegedly vandalised homes and damaged properties in Muslim-dominated Dorana village in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, according to reports filtering in from the state. Sections of the media have reported incidents of communal tension in the state during rallies organised by right-wing Hindu-groups to collect funds for the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
Videos have gone viral on social media of a group raising slogans, having blocked a narrow lane near a mosque in Dorana. A few persons can be seen atop the mosque with saffron flags. Mandsaur Superintendent of Police, Siddharth Chaudhary told reporters that the police immediately ordered those who had climbed atop the mosque to get down. He confirmed that there was no damage to the structure and added that no permission had been taken for the rally.
NEW DELHI: Celebrated Urdu critic Shamsur Rehman Faruqi, who began his literary journey by waiting for many an editor’s rejection slip and discovered his early success printed on a grocer’s paper bag, succumbed to complications from coronavirus on Friday, a month after apparently recovering from it. He was 85.
Among Urdu’s most respected literary critics, poets and authors, Mr Faruqi died at his home in Allahabad shortly after being brought there by his family from Delhi.
“He had been insisting to go back to his home in Allahabad. We reached here only this morning and within half an hour he passed away at around 11,” nephew and writer Mahmood Farooqui told Press Trust of India.
Prashant Miranda s artwork for the campaign. | Prashant Miranda.
The great Konkani laureate Balakrishna Bhagwant (Bakibab) Borkar once sought to explain why his tiny homeland of Goa has produced so many consequential artists. They range from the Hindustani classical vocalists Kesarbai Kerkar and Mogubai Kurdikar to the slew of jazz musicians – along with Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle – who consolidated “the sound of Bollywood”, as well as essential modernist painters like Francis Newton Souza, Vasudeo Gaitonde, and his cherished friend, the Shantiniketan exemplar Angelo da Fonseca.
Borkar credited this disproportionate effloresence to “the significance of Goa’s natural beauty”. He said, “So comfortably set up in such a rich aesthetic setting, the Goan consciously and unconsciously absorbs Nature’s varied promptings through all the pores. In the festival of colours and shapes and sounds and smells and touches and tastes afforded by the natur