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Hyderabad: Hindu calligrapher paints Quranic verses in mosques ANI | Updated: Feb 13, 2021 10:24 IST Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 13 (ANI): For over two decades, Anil Kumar Chawhan, a calligrapher from Hyderabad has been painting Quranic verses on the walls of mosques across the city. A Hindu by religion, Chawhan discovered his passion for calligraphy when he started painting signboards for shops in Urdu. With time, he learnt how to read and write the language and his work in several mosques has impressed many people. Chawhan, who started with painting signboards, said, For the last 30 years I have painted Urdu signboards of many shops in the old city area of Hyderabad. ....
Meet Hyderabad’s Anil Kumar who paints Quranic verses in mosques By ANI| Posted by Sameer | Updated: 13th February 2021 1:01 pm IST Hyderabad: For over two decades, Anil Kumar Chawhan, a calligrapher from Hyderabad has been painting Quranic verses on the walls of mosques across the city. A Hindu by religion, Chawhan discovered his passion for calligraphy when he started painting signboards for shops in Urdu. With time, he learnt how to read and write the language and his work in several mosques has impressed many people. Chawhan, who started with painting signboards, said, “For the last 30 years I have painted Urdu signboards of many shops in the old city area of Hyderabad.” ....
Hindu by Faith, Quranic Calligrapher by Passion: How a Painter in Hyderabad Keeps Arabic Art Alive FOLLOW US ON: A Hindu by faith, a Quranic calligrapher by passion. For more than two decades Anil Kumar Chawhan has been getting invitations for painting walls with Quranic verses in mosques and dargahs of old city Hyderabad. For Anil Kumar, his typical day starts with writing signboards in Urdu, Hindi, Telugu and English at his small workshop situated at Hussaini Alam, a street near Charminar. Anil s love for Arabic calligraphy started 25 years ago. After dropping out of a diploma course in fine arts due to financial constraints, he started painting signboards for a living. Though Anil was not familiar with the Urdu script, it was the demand for Urdu in the old city of Hyderabad that inspired him to learn it. ....
The execution came 24 years after the 1996 Maryland triple murder for which he was convicted. It also came following an extended effort to reduce his sentence that began when Trump and then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr this past summer announced that, after 17 years without one, federal executions would resume. Though his supporters did not deny Higgs’ involvement with the killings, they argued his punishment was more severe than the man who pulled the trigger, and disputed the assertion he ordered it to happen. The gunman, who is serving a life sentence, likewise disputed that assertion in a court filing. Higgs received a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court voted, 6-3, to vacate a stay of execution that likely would have extended argument over his sentence past inauguration day. ....