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Nasreen Habib

Nasreen Habib


    Eid is about feasting and celebrating, and, above all, sharing your joy with others
    Culture

    Eid is about feasting and celebrating, and, above all, sharing your joy with...

    Guwahati, May 3: In our modest hostel room at the North Eastern Student's House at Delhi University, my friend Gitanjali B Baruah, a devout Sankari, lighted incense sticks every morning before she said her prayers; the strong, sweet smell of burning mogra incense invariably turned my thoughts...
    Rongali vibes
    Article

    Rongali vibes

    Where earlier Rongali Bihu was performed in the open, on a corner of a paddy field, it has now firmly ensconced itself on the mancha or stage, thus making the transition from mukoli to mancha Bihu. In one stroke, it has evolved from being an agrarian festival to a public spectacle. It is a time when...
    Who fears the hijab?
    National

    Who fears the hijab?

    When I was growing up in the late 1990s in Assam, I hardly remember seeing any burqa-clad women or one in a hijab, not in the privileged judiciary colony where we lived or in my ancestor's impoverished village, Koroiguri (after the tree) in Nagaon, sans electricity and pucca roads. What I do...
    Ramsay Brothers – the original spooksters
    Entertainment

    Ramsay Brothers – the original spooksters

    If you are a 90's kid, you must have sampled at least one of the Ramsay Brothers films on those long summer afternoons when there was nothing to do! And, if you are one of those "uncool" people who actually loved the Ramsay Brothers mishmash of the Hollywood 'slasher' films and Mario Bava, the...
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