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Peetambara Peeth Datia
Peetambara Peeth Datia On 6th November 2016, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president Amit Shah offered prayers at Pitambara Peeth temple complex before…
Dar Ul Kohla Bhopal
Jigar Moradabadi was the nom de plume of Ali Sikandar, one of the most famous Urdu poets of the 20th century and a celebrated Urdu…
Bhopal Tribal Museum
Sometime in the year 2011, at a meeting of bureaucrats, archaeologists, anthropologists and sociologists at Bhopal, Bhil painter Bhuribai asked, “Shouldn’t a tribal museum be made…
Durga Puja Bhopal 2014
It is Navratri time in Bhopal. Time for Dandias, time for Mata rani, time for devotion and fasting. The hidden motifs of that promotion, that…
Lost Games of Bhopal
A quarter of a century back, passing through the graveyard behind old Saifia College to take a shortcut to Bhopal Talkies square, we students always…
The Legacy Lives On
A legacy of the famous Begums of Bhopal may help usher in social reforms by sparing Shia families the exorbitant expense of weddings. The All…
Bhopal The Kerala Connection
The old joke about Malayalis is that when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he met a Malayali tea seller. Bhopal The Kerala Connection.…
Ticket To Bollywood
In his book "In The Afternoon Of Time" Haribansh Rai Bachhcan recalls that on completion of wedding of Amitabh Bacchan and Jaya Bhaduri, Hari Bansh…
Hungry Bhopali
At about 7am, though even 8 or 9 will do, head to the Jama Masjid. On the east side of the masjid, just off Itwara…
Shikar in Bhopal
Shikar (n. hunting; game; & t. hunt (animal) as sport. shikaree, shakari, shakary, n. (big game) hunter.) in Bhopal was not a sport nor a…