On the long taxi ride from the airport to our hotel in Marmaris, Turkey, it was easy to make friends with the cabbie when we declared our common Muslim faith.…

Thousands of young backpackers streamed through the Munich youth hostel during 1970-71when I worked there as one of a handful of staff checking in young people of variousnationalities, Americans mostly,…

Ikram Ahsan in his teenage was known to be a prankster among his large number of friends in his Mallepally neighborhood of Hyderabad. One day, he led a team of…

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…

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…

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…

Omar Khalidi was a Muslim scholar, a staff member of MIT in the US, and an author.  Dr. Omar Khalidi, a great scholar and the man, who articulated the voice…

 Qazipurian Family Memoirs Articles written in Urdu have been translated by Usama Khalidi Memories of Janab Moinuddin Hasan Jawwad,  cherished for more than 60 years by his brothers, his late…

Witten By Hamidah Rahman Although Nana Hazrat’s (Nizamuddin Saheb) wedding took place mostly according to the customs and rituals of the time, 1915, in Hyderabad, it differed from other weddings…

Written By Syed Rasheed Whenever someone passes away, the common and probably the wisest thing to say is, “Time is the best healer”. I am sure this is true in…