Citizens for Justice and Peace
Muslim man donates truck to carry vegetable to Tirupati temple
17-Feb-2016
Vijayawada:Feb 17, 2016, PTI A Muslim man from Chennai has donated a refrigerator truck to the famous Tirupati temple for transporting vegetables. The vehicle, worth Rs. 35 lakh, was flagged off by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu earlier on Monday. The truck, with a capacity of eight tonnes, was donated by Abdul Gani, and will…
Sightless Muslim girl knows Gita by heart
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Ishita Bhatia Meerut Ask seven-year-old Rida Zehra if she knows the Gita, and the visually-challenged girl folds her hands and starts reciting the book -which she knows by heart -within seconds. Living at a residential blind school in Meerut since three years, Zehra has never seen…
Muslim girl tops Ramayana exam with 93%
12-Feb-2016
Feb 12 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Kevin Mendonsa Mangaluru: Here’s a good example of religious tolerance in a district often troubled by the lack of it -Fathimath Rahila of Puttur secured the first place in the Ramayana exam. The Class IX student from a Muslim family scored 93% to become Puttur taluk…
All alone, 80-year-old Pandit widow to stay put in the Valley
04-Feb-2016
Ishfaq-ul-Hassan @ishfaq72 Srinagar: When 85-year-old Kashmiri Pandit Janki Nath Bhat died on Saturday in the remote Malvan village of south Kashmir, his 80-year-old widow Rani Devi surprised everyone by deciding to stay put in the valley despite being all alone. Rani Devi had a solid reason not to leave the village because local Muslim boys…
All alone, 80-year-old Pandit widow to stay put in the Valley
04-Feb-2016
Ishfaq-ul-Hassan @ishfaq72 Srinagar: When 85-year-old Kashmiri Pandit Janki Nath Bhat died on Saturday in the remote Malvan village of south Kashmir, his 80-year-old widow Rani Devi surprised everyone by deciding to stay put in the valley despite being all alone. Rani Devi had a solid reason not to leave the village because local Muslim boys…
Muslims perform last rites of 84-yr old Kashmiri Pandit
02-Feb-2016
Srinagar, Feb 2, 2016, (PTI): In a heart warming example of Kashmiriyat, Muslims of a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir performed the last rites of a Kashmiri Pandit, who clung his roots and refused to leave the valley when all others in his family fled under threat from militants. Janki Nath (84), a…
Muslims perform last rites of 84-yr old Kashmiri Pandit
02-Feb-2016
Srinagar, Feb 2, 2016, (PTI): In a heart warming example of Kashmiriyat, Muslims of a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir performed the last rites of a Kashmiri Pandit, who clung his roots and refused to leave the valley when all others in his family fled under threat from militants. Janki Nath (84), a…
This businessman is wedded to a cause
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Palanpur: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jitubhai Invited 18,000 Widows To Bless His Son’s Marriage Inviting widows to auspicious functions is still conside red a taboo, more so in ru ral areas. But Mehsa na-based businessman, Jitendra Patel, trashes these parochial beliefs with contempt. On Wednesday, Patel, bet…
Pandit couple returns to Muslim neighbourhood in Kashmir
20-Jan-2016
Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar, January 20, 2016 One reason I stayed in Muslim colony is relate with my youthful days, says Omkar Razdan. A Kashmiri Pandit couple is back in the Kashmir Valley. What makes the return of Omkar Razdan (70) and Vijay Bazaz Razdan (65) unique is they refused to take the Prime Minister’s package.…
`No religion please, we’re all pehelwans’
05-Jan-2016
Jan 06 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Ishita Mishra Agra: As the nation wres les with the issue of “tolerance“, it needs only to look at the wrestlers of Mallaka Chautra Akhada in Agra’s Shahganj to see how communal amity can be a lived experience. Recently , as a guru at the akhada…