Celebration means shared happiness, not speeches!
The 150th anniversary of the foundation of my high school, Madarsa-e Aliya, in Hyderabad, was celebrated with some fanfare, but it was mostly speeches by politicians or the old, disappearing…
From Osmania to Birla Mandir: An Uneasy
I wrote this article for a collection of essays on the army-led merger of the princely state of Hyderabad State into the rest of India. This collection of essays was…
Our Identity in America
Nobody ever gets any kind of rights there no matter how long they have lived there Everybody everywhere has a particular ethnicity and an identity. Its importance totally depends on…
Our Mughal History
The great Mughals of India who ruled the Subcontinent from 1527 to around 1803 In common American usage, a mogul means a powerful or influential person (e.g. Hollywood mogul or…
