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Furquan Ameen Siddiqui

Furquan Ameen Siddiqui

Furquan Ameen Siddiqui was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. He no longer works with the Hindustan Times.

Articles by Furquan Ameen Siddiqui

A walk in Delhi that revisits the legacy of two Mughal princesses

A scene from the theatre walk, Shah Jahan’s Daughters, at Roshanara Bagh.

Updated on Jul 15, 2017 03:00 IST

A tale of friendship and growing up with a lifetime of memories

A scene from the play Anand Express.

Updated on Jul 8, 2017 02:54 IST

Sacred places: A photo exhibition on the world heritage sites in Japan

The Nikko Toshogu shrine complex was declared a World Heritage site in 1999

Updated on Jun 24, 2017 03:54 IST

Celebrating classics: NSD’s annual theatre festival

Ghazab Teri Adaa is an anti-war comedy based on Greek playwright Aristophanes’ Lysistrata where women take a vow to withhold sex to force men to stop a war.

Updated on Jun 10, 2017 03:54 IST

How a Manipur town finally buried its dead, 632 days after they were killed

Manipur, India - May 24, 2017: After 632 days eight of the nine Tribal’s, who were killed on August 31,2015 in Manipur’s Churachandpur Town, were buried after an agreement between hill tribes and the Manipur Government. The bodies which were kept in the town’s morgue for almost 2 years were finally laid to rest after a mourning ceremony at Churachandpur in Manipur , India, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (Photo by Ravi Choudhary/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 28, 2017 03:07 IST

The day Mirza Ghalib was summoned to court...

Rehearsals for the play Anti-National Ghalib, which revolves around the imaginary premise of the 19th century Urdu poet having been summoned to court to defend his writing.

Updated on May 13, 2017 02:32 IST

Delhi Book Fair: Feast of books, side order of stationery

Visitors sift through the heaps of books at the Delhi Book Fair.

Updated on Sep 3, 2016 04:33 IST

Thumri Festival brings back the songs from the courts of Nawabs

Girija Devi of the Banaras gharana, is considered the Queen of Thumri.

Updated on Sep 3, 2016 03:59 IST

Rajasthani folk music: Praising Krishna to the tune of Sindhi sarangi

Lakha Khan is one of the few remaining Sindhi sarangi players from Rajasthan.

Updated on Aug 29, 2016 07:37 IST

Krishna: Forty years of playing flute-player, charioteer in a ballet

Scenes from the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra’s musical dance-drama, Krishna.

Updated on Aug 20, 2016 05:14 IST

A Punjabi saga of timeless, tragic love: 250 years of Waris Shah’s Heer

Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai’s portrayal of Waris Shah’s Heer and Ranjha in his paintings.

Updated on Aug 20, 2016 08:37 IST

Begum Hazrat Mahal: The unsung heroine of the first war of Independence

The Lucknow Residency where the siege took place in 1857.

Updated on Aug 13, 2016 03:47 IST

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, through the eyes of a travelling priest

Rani Laxmibai in a scene from the play 1857 – India’s War of Independence.

Updated on Aug 13, 2016 03:48 IST

Reporting under duress: Journalists in India work amid increasing danger

Lawyers assaulting a journalist outside Patiala House Court in New Delhi on February 17, 2016.

Updated on Jul 3, 2016 16:39 IST

Every journalist isn’t killed for his writing, as the media projects: PCI chairman

Press Council of India chairman Justice C K Prasad.

Updated on Jul 3, 2016 06:28 IST

A series of film screenings in Delhi captures the horrors of a city

A film still from Georges Franju’s 1960 film Eyes Without a Face.

Updated on Jul 2, 2016 04:28 IST

NSD’s theatre festival presents a mix of old classics and new dramas

The play Ghazab Teri Adaa is inspired by the Greek anti-war comedy Lysistrata.

Updated on Jun 14, 2016 14:17 IST

Time for drama, music and comedy as Goan theatre comes to Delhi

A scene from Loretta, Sunil Shanbag’s play revolving around the concepts of identity, chauvinistic pride and anxieties.

Updated on May 27, 2016 15:01 IST

Tales from India’s 1947 Partition refugee camps

Tents at Kingsway Camp, Delhi, provided shelter to Partition refugees who couldn’t be accommodated in the barracks.

Updated on May 23, 2016 09:02 IST

Inside Kota’s coaching factories: Pressure, anxiety prey on students

Students take notes in at Allen Career Institute, the leading coaching institute in Kota, Rajasthan. It claims to have enrolled over 77,000 students last year.

Updated on May 15, 2016 02:25 IST

Revisiting Champaran: Place that transformed Mohandas into Mahatma

Bhitiharwa Gandhi Ashram, founded by Gandhi in November 1917, near Narkatiaganj in West Champaran was renovated four years ago but by then not much remained.

Updated on May 3, 2016 13:52 IST

A chequered history: Does alcohol prohibition really work in India?

Seized liquor bottles being destroyed in Koba village, Gujarat, on May 26, 2007. Drinking and selling alcohol in Gujarat is prohibited

Updated on Apr 17, 2016 08:33 IST

Gardens of the mind: Nature depicted in 60 photographs

French fashion and lifestyle photographer Gilles Bensimon has moved away from his star-studded portfolio to shoot abstract patterns, giving a new perspective of depicting flowers in art.Seen here, Untitled Number One, 2011.

Updated on Apr 10, 2016 07:27 IST

Brahmaputra threat creates no ripple in Assam’s election politics

The Kathalguri char near Garoimari is accessible only on a boat. The region near Kamrup’s Chhaygaon experiences severe floods and rapid erosion almost every year.

Updated on Apr 9, 2016 05:57 IST

Politics of identity: Assam voters who can’t prove citizenship

Anna Rani Ghosh , a resident of Krishnai in lower Assam, was declared a foreigner five years ago. Since then she has been hiding from the police fearing arrest and being sent to the detention camp.

Updated on Apr 5, 2016 13:13 IST

Assam rivals battle it out over incomplete bridges in poll season

Bogibeel Bridge in Assam’s Dibrugarh district has been under construction for the past 15 years. Incomplete bridges are one of the election issues in Assam this year.

Updated on Apr 4, 2016 13:46 IST

Assam polls: Plight of tea garden workers continues despite promises

The PM refrained from mentioning the plight of the Assam’s tea garden workers, the work force behind his favourite tea.

Updated on Apr 4, 2016 13:24 IST

Spring Fever 2016: Looking forward to the ides of March

A session at last year’s Spring Fever festival.

Updated on Mar 12, 2016 08:06 IST

A Manipur town refuses to bury its dead, demanding tribal rights

Residents of Manipur’s Churachandpur town keep a vigil outside the district morgue, where bodies of nine people who died during street protests last year. The protests were against three bills that tribals claim will infringe on their rights and refuse to bury the bodies

Updated on Feb 8, 2016 12:21 IST

When Shatrughan Sinha was anything but khamosh about Sachin

BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha launched his book, Anything But Khaamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2016 in Jaipur on Monday.

Updated on Jan 25, 2016 16:39 IST

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