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Wedding photo of Desiree Francis and her two year old daughter Ileana Ann. Photo supplied.

A Marriage Across Borders: A Pakistani Mother Raises Indian Daughter Amid Love, Fears and Yearning

Our daughter, Ileana Ann, was born in Dubai. However, now, at two years old. She’s being taught to know the anthem of India better than “Dil Dil Pakistan”. Just beginning to string together words, tottering between rooms with a giggle that sounds the same in any language. Born with a passport that bears the tricolor — yet half her heartbeat echoes from across the Wagah border.

Indian military bands whip up patriotic fervour with their entrancing musical repertoire

Over the decades since the 1950s many Indian Armed Forces band masters composed numbers based on Indian folk music sourced from different parts of the country. After almost five decades, there has been slow phase-out of Western tunes and more works by Indian composers, many of whom are from within the armed forces themselves.

How deep dive in AI can help Mankind, but AI can't replace human intelligence

We are aware that the change in information is proportional to the total accumulative existing knowledge on a particular subject and hence this leads to its exponential growth.  Yet no matter how much the processing power of AI is, it will still remain bound by the existing knowledge and the environment which produced it. 

From Herat to Hyderabad, Jaffna to Jhapa, Young Voices Reimagine South Asia

Together, these voices converged on common ground: universal education, ecological cooperation, equitable trade, soft borders, and a revitalised SAARC that works for people rather than politics. Or, as one participant Ayesha Ahmed Quadri from India put it: “In the hands of South Asia lie the seeds of unity, compassion, peace, humility, and growth, ready to blossom beyond borders and history.”

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