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ON May 15, 2013 AT 23:42 IST
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Asghar Ali Engineer's son, Irfan explained why his funeral took place at the Sunni Muslim graveyard in Santa Cruz (W) in accordance with the scholar's wish:
"Most of his friends, like Ali Sardar Jafri, Kaifi Azmi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and K A Abbas, are buried there and he, too, wanted to be buried thereS. ecuring a place for him at a Bohra cemetery might have been tough as he was excommunicated in the 1970s for launching the anti-Bohra-priest, reformist movement."
Jyoti Punwani in the Mumbai Mirror: There will never be another Asghar Ali
Engineer was a brave man. Assaulted six times, twice almost fatally, by orthodox Bohras, simply for fighting constitutionally against the absolute hold of the Syedna over the community, it would have been easy for him to give up a fight he began openly in 1973, with an article in The Times of India. The social boycott against him declared by the Bohra clergy cut him off for years from his family, including his mother, and in his words, "almost drove (me) mad".
The political establishment, all the way up to Indira Gandhi and Vajpayee, stood solidly behind the Syedna. Yet, Engineer remained a Reformist throughout, and not just in his personal life. Under his guidance, the Reformists became a force to reckon with, with women at the forefront of the movement. He showed the same courage in openly organising support for the Shahbano judgment, when the Muslim establishment mounted a campaign against it. 
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 15, 2013 AT 23:42 IST, Edited At: May 15, 2013 23:42 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 12, 2012 AT 15:22 IST
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Raga: A Film Journey into the Soul of India, about the life and music of sitarist Ravi Shankar, with an accompanying soundtrack album produced by George Harrison
The man whom George Harrison called "the Godfather of World Music" and about whom Yehudi Menuhin said that "his genius and his humanity can only be compared to that of Mozart's," is dead.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 12, 2012 AT 15:22 IST, Edited At: Dec 12, 2012 15:22 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 11, 2012 AT 23:55 IST
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On Dilip Kumar's 90th birthday, while we celebrate with the above playlist, do tell us about your favourite Dilip Kumar song.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 11, 2012 AT 23:55 IST, Edited At: Dec 11, 2012 23:55 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 16, 2012 AT 21:10 IST
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Also See: On the late NFAK's 15th death anniversary today:
Playlist of interviews, documentaries, full live concerts et al:
50 Favourites:
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ON Aug 16, 2012 AT 21:10 IST, Edited At: Aug 16, 2012 21:10 IST
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ON Jun 27, 2012 AT 19:09 IST
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ON Jun 27, 2012 AT 19:09 IST, Edited At: Jun 27, 2012 19:09 IST
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ON Mar 08, 2012 AT 16:34 IST
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ON Mar 08, 2012 AT 16:34 IST, Edited At: Mar 08, 2012 16:34 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Feb 22, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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Josh Malihabadi (December 5, 1894 – February 22, 1982) migrated to Pakistan in 1958 - despite Jawaharlal Nehru's insistence against it - over what is generally believed to be his concern regarding the future of Urdu in India.
With thanks to @mazdaki, @shivamvij, @kafila and @murtazasolangi on Twitter for the reminder about his 30th death anniversary
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ON Feb 22, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Feb 22, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 18, 2011 AT 23:59 IST
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2011 seems to be picking them selectively. As Salman Rushdie tweeted:
And now Havel. Damn. I'm getting tired of finding friends and comrades in the obituary columns. Will everyone please stay alive for a while?
Václav Havel, the "dissident playwright", who was drawn into a struggle against the Communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan, after the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 , led the Czechoslovakian "velvet revolution" with exemplary courage and belief in non-violence, emerging as one of the main figures of the east European pro-democracy movement that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 18, 2011 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Dec 18, 2011 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Dec 16, 2011 AT 12:41 IST
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2011's latest victim is none other than Christopher Eric Hitchens, journalist, born 13 April 1949; died 15 December 2011
“Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Christopher Hitchens wrote in the Vanity Fair last year, and then in another piece this June, said, “My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.”
And one of those friends was the first to offer a tribute:
Elaine Woo, in the Los Angeles Times notes:
A swashbuckling opinionator, he loved few things better than a good argument — and he knew how to pick one. Once described by the New Yorker as "looking like someone who, with as much dignity as possible, has smoothed his hair and straightened his collar after knocking the helmet off a policeman," he tarred Bill Clinton as a rapist, Mother Teresa as a fraud and Henry Kissinger as a war criminal. He argued in Vanity Fair that women were less funny than men, which stoked the wrath of female comics. "I am programmed by the practice of a lifetime to take," he wrote, "a contrary position."
In his personal life he was no less the "rapscallion iconoclast," as historian Douglas Brinkley once described him.
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ON Dec 16, 2011 AT 12:41 IST, Edited At: Dec 16, 2011 12:41 IST
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ON Dec 13, 2011 AT 22:59 IST
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Mario João Carlos do Rosario de Brit de Miranda, aka Mario Miranda (1926-2011). RIP.
As if the year hadn't been cruel enough already, Mario de Miranda died in his sleep in his ancestral house in the early hours of Sunday, December 11. He was cremated yesterday, in accordance with his wishes, at his village in Loutolim.
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ON Dec 13, 2011 AT 22:59 IST, Edited At: Dec 13, 2011 22:59 IST
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