In the physically unequal Battle of Karbala, remembered ever after as the moral victory of the Shias, a Brahmin of the gotra, or ancestral line, of Rishi Bharadwaja—the father of Dronacharya and ...

Aleem Maqbool joined pilgrims in Karbala for a rare look inside the mosque It is a privilege to do this work. I kept thinking that as we travelled along the road from Baghdad, to the city of Karbala.