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The dargah of #Sufi saint Makhdoom Ali Mahimi at #Mahim in #Mumbai is revered by the #MumbaiPolice, who lead the ceremonies during the annual urs. A #thread on the patron saint of the police force and how this tradition came about. #history #heritage ImageImageImageImage
Indians across faiths follow syncretic traditions. Recently, Tryambakeshwar, a jyotirlinga of Lord Shiva near #Nashik in #Maharashtra, hit the headlines after it was alleged that some Muslims tried to forcibly enter the shrine
Later, it was clarified that the men were following a decades-old tradition, where the devotees of the Sufi saint Hazrat Syed Ghulab Shahavali Baba stand outside the temple and blow the smoke from the loban (frankincense) into it as a mark of respect
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#Netaji #SubhasChandraBose and his #INA launched their struggle against the #British with the help of #Japan in #WorldWarII. But did you know that Indian #nationalists & #revolutionaries had deep ties with #Japan even earlier?
#history #LokmanyaTilak #Maharashtra #IndoJapanties
Indian revolutionaries were eager to go to #Japan and #America to gain knowledge in manufacturing arms and bombs to be used against the British rulers.
#freedommovement #nationaliststruggle
The rise of #Japan as a military and industrial power and the crushing defeat inflicted by it on #Russia in the Russo-Japanese war (1904-5) inspired Indian nationalists. The country was also seen as a counter-weight to the European powers.
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#BombayHC bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar to shortly hear a plea filed by a woman, claiming to have been harassed at the behest of #ShivSena MP #SanjayRaut. She is booked in a bogus degree case but claims it to be a counterblast of her allegations.
Adv Abha Singh for the woman, a psychologist by profession, who has also sought to quash the bogus degree case.
Chief Public Prosecutor Aruna Pai, for state.

#BombayHC #ShivSena #SanjayRaut
Singh: Earlier orders were passed asking @CPMumbaiPolice to submit a report on my allegations. I am submitting a letter written by the @NCWIndia to @MumbaiPolice to file an FIR.

J Shinde: Have you filed an affidavit for these documents?

Singh: No.
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