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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Faizabad's last rites performer doesn't worry about religion of the dead, Islam and Pluralism, NewAgeIslam.com


Islam and Pluralism
22 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Faizabad's last rites performer doesn't worry about religion of the dead


Adab Nawaz, NewAgeIslam.com
23 Aug. 2011
A few kilometres before it reaches the holy city of Ayodhya, the ancient river Saryu bypasses Faizabad, founded by the Awadh Nawab Shujaudaullah who also made it the province’s capital. Today Faizabad neither has Ayodhya’s aura or its festering religious controversy nor Lucknow’s political skulduggery to keep it in national conscience. Shorn of the two popular kinds of mahants—the pious shloka-chanting and the rabidly communal trishul-weilding—and bands of raucous and rapacious politicians, Faizabad desperately seeks attention.

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