धार्मिक कट्टरपन
August 1, 1998
Did the fact that you and your husband, Vinod, hail from different communities ever intrude in your initial involvement with each other that finally led to marriage?
During the initial stages of involvement I did have apprehen-sions in my mind such as, “How would we adjust since our backgrounds are very different, i.e. he’s a Marathi Hindu and me an Anglo–Indian...
August 1, 1998
That’s what Farzana Khan’s father told her daughter, determined to tie the nuptials with a Parsi 30 years older than her. The result: ‘Busybee’ got a face and a name — Behram Contractor
I am not sure about the Mumbaites but there is not a Bombayite who is not familiar with the name ‘Busybee’. The erstwhile Evening News of The Times of India...
August 1, 1998
Nana Chudasama’s parents wanted their son to marry not just any Hindu but someone from their own caste – a Rajput. Munira Jasdanvalla’s family believed their daughters must be well-educated but not employed. The two met at a workplace in 1966 and chose to become mates for a lifetime
It saddens one to be writing this article on mixed marriages when we are...
August 1, 1998
Saif Ali Khan son of a Hindu mother, Sharmila Tagore and Muslim father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, is married to Amrita Singh who is half-Muslim and half-Sikh. Keenly interested in studying philosophical and theological texts of all religions, he is remarkably well-informed
Saif grew up in Bhopal at the family estate at Pat-audi. Since his mother had also con-verted to Is-lam,...
June 10, 1998
Compilation of evidence produced before the Srikrishna Commission of Inquiry into the December 92 - January 93 Mumbai Riots
March 1, 1998
Bombay 1992-1993 and Coimbatore 1997-98 may become permanently etched on the post-1947 canvas of the sub-continent. In a sordid run-on of the saga that preceded Partition and the birth of two nation-states of India and Pakistan, both Bombay and Coimbatore were the locales for unspeakable venom against the minority Muslim community under an avowedly secular state.The pogroms resulted...