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Hansal Mehta Winner of the National Award for Best Direction in 2014, Hansal Mehta talks about his Netflix drama starring Bollywood's beloved Kareena Kapoor, Buckingham Murders. He's best known for Shahid (2013), Citylights (2014), Aligarh (2016), Omertà (2018), Scoop (2023), Modern Love Mumbai (2022) and Scam 1992 (2020). He is known for films that depict social and political realities in deeply polarised and troubled times. His films are remarkable for their understanding of characters and their worlds, while telling important stories. His films Shahid (2013) and Omertà(2018) premiered as official selections at different editions of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Aligarh (2016) a moving tale about a professor suspended by university for being gay premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2015. His films have traveled to festivals around the world and have been extensively written about and discussed in both international and local forums. Watch the Buckingham Murders on Netflix. When a teen boy's murder rattles a quiet English town, a grieving detective uncovers the hidden hostilities beneath its idyllic surface…

Distinguished poet and lyricist Gopaldas Neeraj(1925-2018) was born Gopaldas Saxena in a village called Purvali, Etawah Uttar Pradesh. A Professor of Hindi literature from Dharma Samaj College,Aligarh and author of several Hindi poetry collection as well, Neeraj had been felicitated with numerous literary awards including the prestigious Sahitya Shiromani. He had also written several hindi songs like 'Ae bhai, zara dekh ke chalo', 'Kaarvan guzar gaya','likhe jo khat tujhe','shokiyon mein ghola jaye',etc. Neeraj was conferred with Padma Shri in 1991 and Padma Bhushan in 2007 apart from Filmfare (thrice) for his excellent work in the field of Liiterature and Cinema. Neeraj has left behind a huge amount of literary works,some of them include collected poems entitled Sangharsh (1944), Antardhavani (1946), Vibhavari (1948), Prangeet(1950, Dard diya hai (1956), Badar baras gayi (1957), Neeraj ki paati (1958), Kaarvan guzar gaya (1964), Phir deep jal gaya (1970) etc. He died in 2018 after a prolonged illness.

‘City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh' is a superb memoir of a boyhood spent in Aligarh on volatile communal faultlines. The author, Zeyad Masroor Khan, details the pains associated with growing up, of joy and grief and loss and evolution. Its greatest success, however, is in portraying how the relationship between Indian Hindus and Muslims ebbs and flows, at once symbiotic and conflicting. All Indians Matter speaks to Zeyad about the book and where the Indian Muslim goes from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week on Cyrus Says we have Film Maker & Producer Hansal Mehta . The episode starts with him studying computer engineering. He worked in Fiji before returning to India to start his career in films.He shares how an accident changed his decision coming back to India & the love food has been constant throughout living alone in Fiji leading to create the Show Khaana Khazana. How Sanjeev Kapoor was spotted as the host of the show & his special dish Shaam Savera made their career.In the end of the episode the Manoj Bajpayee starrer Aligarh is discussed. How important is the film based on the poet. Tune in for full episode & unexpected laughter throughout.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Mohua Show is a weekly podcast about everything from business, technology to art and lifestyle, But done and spoken ईमानदारी सेConnect with UsMohua Chinappa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohua-chinappa/The Mohua Show: https://www.themohuashow.com/Connect with the GuestDilnaz Irani: https://www.instagram.com/dilnazirani/Follow UsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMohuaShowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themohuashow/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/themohuashow/For any other queries EMAILhello@themohuashow.comEpisode Summary: In this engaging episode, we sit down with Dilnaz Irani, an accomplished Indian actress who has made her mark across film, theatre, and television. Dilnaz takes us through her Bollywood journey, where she began with impactful roles in films like “68 Pages” and “Jodhaa Akbar.” Her portrayal of Tamanna in “Heroine” (2012) and Nameeta in “Aligarh” (2015) solidified her reputation as a versatile performer.Beyond the big screen, Dilnaz has captivated audiences on the small screen, with standout performances in work like “Ragini MMS: Returns,” “Twisted,” and the critically acclaimed series “Aarya.” Her recent debut in the Tamil web series “Mathagam” further demonstrates her dedication to embracing diverse and challenging roles.Throughout our conversation, Dilnaz shares insights into her passion for storytelling, her journey from being an engineering graduate to an actor, and her analytical approach to acting that continues to captivate and resonate with audiences. To wrap up, she offers valuable advice to young aspiring actors, leaving us with a sense of inspiration and motivation.Chapters:00:00 - Highlights00:58 - Introduction02:15 - Early Life & Journey03:56 - Convincing Parents06:30 - Real Conversations in Theatre08:54 - The Struggles of Sustaining as an Actor11:09 - Challenges of Being a VJ12:40 - Jodha Akbar & Ashutosh Gowariker 14:28 - The Uncertainty of the Film Industry17:07 - Apprehensions after Ragini MMS Returns 18:49 - Overcoming Language Barriers22:50 - The Prep Work Behind Arya25:03 - Anchoring Experience26:05 - Surviving in the Industry29:04 - Upcoming Projects31:40 - Singing & Other Hobbies33:00 - Advice to Aspiring Actors34:50 - Concluding RemarksDisclaimerThe views expressed by our guests are their own. We do not endorse and are not responsible for any views expressed by our guests on our podcast and its associated platforms.#TheMohuaShow #Podcast #DilnazIrani #FilmIndustry #Films #Actor #Bollywood #BollywoodMovies #Movies #Mumbai #Fashion #BollywoodActress #Trending #Unfiltered #Cinema #IndianCinema #PressRelease #Media #FYP Thanks for Listening!

This week on 'Has It Aged Well?' we're discussing the 2013 film 'Kai Po Che' directed by Abhishek Kapoor and starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Rajkumar Rao, Amit Sadh, Amrita Puri and Manav Kaul. Joining Abbas and Urjita to discuss the film is filmmaker Jai Mehta, whose work includes 'Scam 1992', 'Lootere', 'Shahid' and more. Topics discussed include: How this film elevates the source material of the book, the gorgeous cinematography, how the three leads went on to have a bright future, how the film deals with controversial real life aspects and whether a story like this can be made in 2024?, Jai almost being a part of this film and a lot more.Follow Jai on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jaihmehtaUrjita is touring with her solo show across India, catch her in your city: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/urjita-wani-live/ET00395374Follow Abbas here: https://www.instagram.com/abbasmomin88/Follow Urjita here: https://www.instagram.com/urjitawani/Get early access to ‘Has It Aged Well?' audio episodes on Amazon Music, Subscribe to the feed: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/24d527b5-0544-4bd6-a7ff-073fa72d846a/has-it-aged-wellSubscribe to IVM Pop's Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@IVMPopFollow IVM Pop on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivmpop/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Top news of the day: Rahul Gandhi meets families of stampede victims in Aligarh, leaves for Hathras, 'UK is ready for change,' says Keir Starmer as Labour party crosses 100-seat mark, SCO Summit 2024: Respect for LAC key, India reminds China, Virat Kohli sums up brotherhood with Rohit Sharma as World Cup dream fulfilled

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I am Niharika NandaToday is the 2nd of July and here are today's headlines.At least 27 people, including 23 women, 3 children, and 1 man, were killed in a stampede in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras today. According to the police, a religious event was underway in the village of Mughalgarhi in Hathras district when the stampede occurred. The process of identifying the bodies is ongoing. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has constituted a team, including the Additional Director General of the Agra Zone and the Police Commissioner of Aligarh, to inquire into the causes of the tragedy.A day after delivering his maiden speech in the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside Parliament today that truth can be expunged in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's world, but not in reality. His remarks came shortly after significant parts of his speech during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address were reportedly expunged by the Chair.The Delhi High Court has issued a notice on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's petition challenging his arrest and scheduled the hearing for the 17th of July in connection with the alleged corruption case related to the now-scrapped excise policy. On the 29th of June, a trial court ordered the Aam Aadmi Party leader to remain in judicial custody until the 12th of July as part of the CBI's investigation into the matter. Kejriwal was officially arrested by the CBI on the 25th of June.The Madhya Pradesh State Government is preparing to introduce a new law to curb paper leaks, which may impose a 10-year prison sentence and hefty fines. This comes after the Congress attempted to corner the ruling BJP government in the state over paper leaks in the Assembly. In 2023, the then-school education minister Rao Uday Singh spoke about bringing in stricter laws to prevent exam leaks as the government was hit by protests after it was forced to cancel the recruitment of revenue officers after alleged irregularities in the patwari recruitment exam.The India Meteorological Department said today that the southwest monsoon has covered the entire country six days ahead of the normal date.  The monsoon arrived in Kerala and the northeastern region on the 30th of May, six days earlier than usual. The country recorded 16 days of below-normal rainfall activity — from June 11 to June 27 — which led to an overall below-normal precipitation last month. This was the catch up on 3 things by the Indian Express.Preparing for Civil Services? The Indian Express content that keeps you ahead of the curve is now available also on IAS Saathi. This new AI-driven app provides you credible information and aims to keep a balance of study & health. Download today on Google PlayStore and Apple Appstore.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iassathi.IASsathi&hl=en

Saba Nahid Arshad was not a celebrity. She was not even famous. But she was a trailblazer in her student days and played a significant role in enriching the literary and theatre activities in the Aligarh of the 1970s. She became the first woman secretary of the Aligarh Muslim University Drama Club. In conversation with Pervaiz Alam, Saba shared memories of her time at the university and people who played a part in her growing up. After a 10-year, off-and-on battle with cancer, Saba passed away on 29 April, 2024, in Dubai. This interview was recorded in several sessions in 2020 and 2021. Cineink is a podcast hub based in London. 

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 22nd of April and here are today's headlines.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh today, said the lives of Muslim women have been secured with “Modi making a law against triple talaq”. Talking about the increase in Haj quota, he also mentioned that he requested the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to increase the Haj quota for the “Muslim brothers and sisters”. The PM also accused the Congress and Samajwadi Party of practising “appeasement politics” and “never doing anything for the political, social and economic upliftment of Muslims”.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wrote to Tihar Jail authorities alleging that he was not being administered insulin despite flagging his peaking sugar levels. He accused the prison authorities of lying over the issue under “political pressure”. Referring to newspaper reports, the AAP national convenor wrote he was “pained” that the prison authorities had made “false and misleading statements” regarding his health.A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled the illegal recruitment of 23,753 teachers and non-teaching staff by the 2016 School Service Commission , ordering them to return their salaries with interest. The court also ordered fresh recruitment against the posts within 15 days. Terming the verdict “illegal”, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee vowed to appeal against it. The bench observed that the OMR sheets of Group C, Group D, Class IX and X were manipulated in 2016, making all the recruitments illegal.Congress President Mallikarjuna Kharge while speaking at The Indian Express Idea Exchange said that Narendra Modi is the first PM who exaggerates so much. Stating that INDIA alliance will come back with strong numbers and defeat the BJP, Kharge added that it's not the Opposition but the people who want change. He said, quote, "The BJP's nervousness is evident from the fact that its leaders are campaigning intensely in every gully compared to the past when they would hold just two or three meetings in a district. Modiji is nervous himself." Unquote.D Gukesh, the 17-year-old from Chennai who was the second youngest player ever to compete at the prestigious Candidates tournament, has become the youngest ever winner of the event. It will also make him the youngest ever to compete at the World Chess Championship. This comes after his draw against Hikaru Nakamura in the final round of the Candidates chess tournament.  He became India's youngest grandmaster ever at the age of 12 years, seven months, 17 days and overhauled the five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand as the country's top ranked player for the first time after 36 years last year.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

‘Congress & allies want to snatch your assets': PM Modi in UP's Aligarh, ‘Nakedly communal appeal': Shashi Tharoor slams PM Modi's ‘wealth to infiltrators…' remark, Russia warns of direct clash with West over Ukraine military aid, Virat Kohli gathers KKR players after RCB loss to explain his contentious dismissal, Badshah travels from Chandigarh to Dubai to ‘rescue' Pakistani actor Hania Aamir

➡️⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Click or tap to Support AMVPodcast (Patreon/UPI)⁠⁠⁠ A delightful and thought-provoking conversation with Zeyad Masroor Khan. We discussed his new book, "City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh." Took a trip to the lanes of small town and explored the mysterious world of jinn folk tales, the 90s world of Pran and Raj comics, how cinema influences culture, the conflicts, the curfews, and how humour became a response to dealing with the hardships of life. Tune in!  This podcast doesn't have any corporate funding so the contribution by listeners is very important for its survival. Please support it here: ➡️⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Click or tap to Support AMVPodcast (Patreon/UPI)⁠⁠⁠⁠ Zeyad's book: https://www.amazon.in/City-Fire-Zeyad-Masroor-Khan/dp/9356998248/  Zeyad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeyadkhan  Anurag Minus Verma's Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/confusedvichar⁠⁠ Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/minusverma/?hl=en⁠⁠ The Mixing and mastering of sound in this episode is done by PostPond Media, a production house based in Mumbai.

EPISODE 1911: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Rafat Ali, founder & CEO of Skift, about the impact of AI on the travel industry.Rafat Ali is the CEO/Founder of Skift, the largest business intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data, and services to all sectors of the world's largest industry. Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK's Guardian News and Media in 2008, and left in 2010. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

Qurratulain Hyder was one of the most influential and successful progressive writers post Independence. She was bilingual, writing and translating in both Urdu and English. Her literary life was rich as a novelist and a short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. Her magnum opus, ‘Aag Ka Dariya' is her best known work. The women in her stories live layered lives often in gray areas between theoretical morality and unforgiving reality. She was born in Aligarh into a literary family and completed her education there.  She then studied at Indraprastha College in Delhi and moved to Pakistan in 1947. Later she moved to England, but found her way back home to India, where she lived and wrote until her demise in 2007. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/storyjam/message

Majrooh Sultanpuri, by creating a political symbolism in the classical tradition of ghazal in the twentieth century, proved that the genre of ghazal has the ability to express all kinds of subjects, emotions, feelings and ideas effectively and pleasingly without sacrificing its quiddity. Majrooh made a slight change in the symbols and metaphors of classical ghazal and established a new vocabulary immersed in political symbolism. He made modern ghazal a pack of modern realities. Thanks to his artistry, they become living symbols for their readers. He kept the reputation of ghazal intact during the heyday of progressivism, when it was considered a lesser thing than Nazm and there was even a campaign against it. He kept alive the spirit of this genre through his words, and even named his collection of poems ‘Ghazal'. His eloquence is so effective that it cannot be left unattended in the heart. He had to go to jail because of his ideological affiliation, and for the same reason some people tried to discredit him of his accomplishments.Majrooh Sultanpuri was born in 1919 in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. His real name was Israr Hassan Khan. Majrooh started writing poetry in 1935. He recited his first ghazal in a Mushaira of Sultanpur. Jigar Muradabadi and Prof. Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui played a major role in his bringing up as a poet. Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui advised him to study Persian and Urdu classical poetry. He could not get admission in Aligarh so Rashid Sahib kept him at his house for three years. In one such mushaira, when he reached Bombay with Majrooh, the audience included the then famous film director AR Kardar. He was very impressed with Majrooh's poetry and hired him to write songs for his films at a huge salary. At that time, he was making the film "Shahjahan" with music director Naushad and hero KL Sehgal in the films. Majrooh's lyrics became immortal in Sehgal's voice, ‘Jab Dil hi Tuut Gaya' was on everybody's lips. Sehgal was so moved by the song that he wrote in his will that this song would be played at the time of his last rites. Majrooh in his nearly 55 years of film career, wrote countless songs, most of which were hits. He tried to maintain as much literary merit as possible in film songs, and whenever the producer or director insisted compromising with the merit, he would shrink inwardly, but completed his professional duty.In 1965, he was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Songwriter for his film friendship song "Chahunga Mein Tujhe Saanjh Sawere". For his literary services, he was also awarded the Ghalib Prize and the Iqbal Samman. In literary and film activities, he visited dozens of countries, including Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Gulf countries. Owing to his mammoth contribution to the film industry, Majrooh was awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1993. In his old age, he was diagnosed with lung disease. He passed away on May 24, 2000 at Leelavati Hospital in Bombay.Source: Rekhta        Abdul Raoof Siddiqui       email: raoof3@yahoo.com       Instagram @urdu.ghazal       Visit our website: www.mstn.in #urdupoetry #majroohsultnapuri

About Our Guest:Rafat Ali is the CEO & Founder of Skift, the most influential business media & information company in the travel industry, providing news, research, events, and creative services to key stakeholders globally.Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK's Guardian News and Media in 2008, and left in 2010. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.About Your Host:Anita Zielina is the CEO and founder of Better Leaders Lab. She's also an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she spent the last few years leading all continuing and executive education initiatives. Anita serves as the inaugural Board Chair of News Product Alliance (NPA) and is a member of the board of directors at the Austrian Public Broadcaster ORF.For the past 15 years, Anita held senior executive positions focused on product, strategy and innovation in various media and education organizations as Chief Product Officer, Managing Editor Digital, Editor-in-Chief and Director Strategic Initiatives. She has worked with around 500 managers, leaders and entrepreneurs as a consultant, coach and educator.She holds a Master in Law from Vienna University and an Executive MBA from INSEAD. Anita is an alumna of the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship and the Oxford Reuters Institute Fellowship. About Better Leaders LabBetter Leaders Lab is a Do and Think Tank for good leadership and smart management in media and beyond and a boutique strategic advisory firm. BLL specializes in organizational change, strategy and scenario planning, leadership development and executive recruiting research. Its goal is to empower managers, leaders and organizations in the broader media, digital & innovation space to build successful, sustainable, modern and healthy businesses.Learn more:https://betterleaderslab.comGet in touchFeedback or questions related to the podcast?hello@betterleaderslab.com

We sit with award-winning actor Manoj Bajpayee, known for his roles in films like Satya, Gangs of Wasseypur, Aligarh, and the most recent, Gulmohar, as well as leading the running hit series, The Family Man. Support, shop and subscribe to our newsletter  

Moin Ahsan Jazbi was one of the important Urdu poets of the Progressive Writers Movement. He was born on 21st Aug 1912 in Mubarakpur, Uttar Pradesh and died on 13th Feb 2005 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Jazbi stayed true to the classical literary tradition and embellished it with contemporary style. He completed M.A. in Urdu and joined the Urdu department of Aligarh Muslim University as Urdu faculty member. His thesis entitled “Hali ka Siyaasi Shuoor” earned him his degree of Ph. D.  Abdul Raoof Siddiqui email: raoof3@yahoo.com Instagram @urdu.ghazal Visit our website: www.mstn.in#urdupoetry #moinahsanjazbi

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form. It argues that canonical texts for sharif women from Mirat-ul Arus to Umrao Jan Ada need to be looked at alongside women's diaries and autobiographies so that we have an overall picture of gendered lives from imaginative fiction, memoirs and biographies. In the late nineteenth century, ideas of the cosmopolitan and local were in conversation with the secular and sacred across different Indian literatures. Emerging poets from the zenana can be traced back to Zahida Khatun Sherwania from Aligarh and Haya Lakhnavi from Lucknow who had very unique trajectories as sharif women. With the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, the Indian women's movement gathered force and those who had previously been confined to the private sphere took their place in public as speaking subjects. The influence of the Left, Marxist thought and resistance against colonial rule fired the Progressive Writers Movement in the 1930s. The pioneering writer and activist Rashid Jahan was at the helm of the movement mediating women's voices through a scientific and rational lens. She was succeeded by Ismat Chughtai, who like her contemporary Saadat Hasan Manto courted controversy by writing openly about sexualities and class. With the onset of partition, as the progressive writers were split across two nations, they carried with them the vision of a secular borderless world. In Pakistan, Urdu became an ideological ground for state formation, and Urdu writers came under state surveillance in the Cold War era. The study picks up the story of progressive women poets in Pakistan to try and understand their response to emerging dominant narratives of nation, community and gender. How did national politics and an ideological Islamisation that was at odds with a secular separation of church and state affect their writing? Despite the disintegration of the Progressive Writers Movement and the official closure of the Left in Pakistan, the author argues that an exceptional legacy can be found in the voices of distinctive women poets including Ada Jafri, Zehra Nigah, Sara Shagufta, Parvin Shakir, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed. Their poems offer new metaphors and symbols borrowing from feminist thought and a hybrid Islamicate culture. Riaz and Naheed joined forces with the women's movement in Pakistan in the 1980s and caused some discomfort amongst Urdu literary circles with their writing. Celebrated across both sides of the border, their poetry and politics is less well known than the verse of the progressive poet par excellence Faiz Ahmed Faiz or the hard hitting lyrics of Habib Jalib. The book demonstrates how they manipulate and appropriate a national language as mother tongue speakers to enunciate a middle ground between the sacred and secular. In doing so they offer a new aesthetic that is inspired by activism and influenced by feminist philosophy. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When they do write, they write in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out their latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. They can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form. It argues that canonical texts for sharif women from Mirat-ul Arus to Umrao Jan Ada need to be looked at alongside women's diaries and autobiographies so that we have an overall picture of gendered lives from imaginative fiction, memoirs and biographies. In the late nineteenth century, ideas of the cosmopolitan and local were in conversation with the secular and sacred across different Indian literatures. Emerging poets from the zenana can be traced back to Zahida Khatun Sherwania from Aligarh and Haya Lakhnavi from Lucknow who had very unique trajectories as sharif women. With the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, the Indian women's movement gathered force and those who had previously been confined to the private sphere took their place in public as speaking subjects. The influence of the Left, Marxist thought and resistance against colonial rule fired the Progressive Writers Movement in the 1930s. The pioneering writer and activist Rashid Jahan was at the helm of the movement mediating women's voices through a scientific and rational lens. She was succeeded by Ismat Chughtai, who like her contemporary Saadat Hasan Manto courted controversy by writing openly about sexualities and class. With the onset of partition, as the progressive writers were split across two nations, they carried with them the vision of a secular borderless world. In Pakistan, Urdu became an ideological ground for state formation, and Urdu writers came under state surveillance in the Cold War era. The study picks up the story of progressive women poets in Pakistan to try and understand their response to emerging dominant narratives of nation, community and gender. How did national politics and an ideological Islamisation that was at odds with a secular separation of church and state affect their writing? Despite the disintegration of the Progressive Writers Movement and the official closure of the Left in Pakistan, the author argues that an exceptional legacy can be found in the voices of distinctive women poets including Ada Jafri, Zehra Nigah, Sara Shagufta, Parvin Shakir, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed. Their poems offer new metaphors and symbols borrowing from feminist thought and a hybrid Islamicate culture. Riaz and Naheed joined forces with the women's movement in Pakistan in the 1980s and caused some discomfort amongst Urdu literary circles with their writing. Celebrated across both sides of the border, their poetry and politics is less well known than the verse of the progressive poet par excellence Faiz Ahmed Faiz or the hard hitting lyrics of Habib Jalib. The book demonstrates how they manipulate and appropriate a national language as mother tongue speakers to enunciate a middle ground between the sacred and secular. In doing so they offer a new aesthetic that is inspired by activism and influenced by feminist philosophy. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When they do write, they write in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out their latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. They can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form. It argues that canonical texts for sharif women from Mirat-ul Arus to Umrao Jan Ada need to be looked at alongside women's diaries and autobiographies so that we have an overall picture of gendered lives from imaginative fiction, memoirs and biographies. In the late nineteenth century, ideas of the cosmopolitan and local were in conversation with the secular and sacred across different Indian literatures. Emerging poets from the zenana can be traced back to Zahida Khatun Sherwania from Aligarh and Haya Lakhnavi from Lucknow who had very unique trajectories as sharif women. With the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, the Indian women's movement gathered force and those who had previously been confined to the private sphere took their place in public as speaking subjects. The influence of the Left, Marxist thought and resistance against colonial rule fired the Progressive Writers Movement in the 1930s. The pioneering writer and activist Rashid Jahan was at the helm of the movement mediating women's voices through a scientific and rational lens. She was succeeded by Ismat Chughtai, who like her contemporary Saadat Hasan Manto courted controversy by writing openly about sexualities and class. With the onset of partition, as the progressive writers were split across two nations, they carried with them the vision of a secular borderless world. In Pakistan, Urdu became an ideological ground for state formation, and Urdu writers came under state surveillance in the Cold War era. The study picks up the story of progressive women poets in Pakistan to try and understand their response to emerging dominant narratives of nation, community and gender. How did national politics and an ideological Islamisation that was at odds with a secular separation of church and state affect their writing? Despite the disintegration of the Progressive Writers Movement and the official closure of the Left in Pakistan, the author argues that an exceptional legacy can be found in the voices of distinctive women poets including Ada Jafri, Zehra Nigah, Sara Shagufta, Parvin Shakir, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed. Their poems offer new metaphors and symbols borrowing from feminist thought and a hybrid Islamicate culture. Riaz and Naheed joined forces with the women's movement in Pakistan in the 1980s and caused some discomfort amongst Urdu literary circles with their writing. Celebrated across both sides of the border, their poetry and politics is less well known than the verse of the progressive poet par excellence Faiz Ahmed Faiz or the hard hitting lyrics of Habib Jalib. The book demonstrates how they manipulate and appropriate a national language as mother tongue speakers to enunciate a middle ground between the sacred and secular. In doing so they offer a new aesthetic that is inspired by activism and influenced by feminist philosophy. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When they do write, they write in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out their latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. They can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form. It argues that canonical texts for sharif women from Mirat-ul Arus to Umrao Jan Ada need to be looked at alongside women's diaries and autobiographies so that we have an overall picture of gendered lives from imaginative fiction, memoirs and biographies. In the late nineteenth century, ideas of the cosmopolitan and local were in conversation with the secular and sacred across different Indian literatures. Emerging poets from the zenana can be traced back to Zahida Khatun Sherwania from Aligarh and Haya Lakhnavi from Lucknow who had very unique trajectories as sharif women. With the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, the Indian women's movement gathered force and those who had previously been confined to the private sphere took their place in public as speaking subjects. The influence of the Left, Marxist thought and resistance against colonial rule fired the Progressive Writers Movement in the 1930s. The pioneering writer and activist Rashid Jahan was at the helm of the movement mediating women's voices through a scientific and rational lens. She was succeeded by Ismat Chughtai, who like her contemporary Saadat Hasan Manto courted controversy by writing openly about sexualities and class. With the onset of partition, as the progressive writers were split across two nations, they carried with them the vision of a secular borderless world. In Pakistan, Urdu became an ideological ground for state formation, and Urdu writers came under state surveillance in the Cold War era. The study picks up the story of progressive women poets in Pakistan to try and understand their response to emerging dominant narratives of nation, community and gender. How did national politics and an ideological Islamisation that was at odds with a secular separation of church and state affect their writing? Despite the disintegration of the Progressive Writers Movement and the official closure of the Left in Pakistan, the author argues that an exceptional legacy can be found in the voices of distinctive women poets including Ada Jafri, Zehra Nigah, Sara Shagufta, Parvin Shakir, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed. Their poems offer new metaphors and symbols borrowing from feminist thought and a hybrid Islamicate culture. Riaz and Naheed joined forces with the women's movement in Pakistan in the 1980s and caused some discomfort amongst Urdu literary circles with their writing. Celebrated across both sides of the border, their poetry and politics is less well known than the verse of the progressive poet par excellence Faiz Ahmed Faiz or the hard hitting lyrics of Habib Jalib. The book demonstrates how they manipulate and appropriate a national language as mother tongue speakers to enunciate a middle ground between the sacred and secular. In doing so they offer a new aesthetic that is inspired by activism and influenced by feminist philosophy. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When they do write, they write in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out their latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. They can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form. It argues that canonical texts for sharif women from Mirat-ul Arus to Umrao Jan Ada need to be looked at alongside women's diaries and autobiographies so that we have an overall picture of gendered lives from imaginative fiction, memoirs and biographies. In the late nineteenth century, ideas of the cosmopolitan and local were in conversation with the secular and sacred across different Indian literatures. Emerging poets from the zenana can be traced back to Zahida Khatun Sherwania from Aligarh and Haya Lakhnavi from Lucknow who had very unique trajectories as sharif women. With the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, the Indian women's movement gathered force and those who had previously been confined to the private sphere took their place in public as speaking subjects. The influence of the Left, Marxist thought and resistance against colonial rule fired the Progressive Writers Movement in the 1930s. The pioneering writer and activist Rashid Jahan was at the helm of the movement mediating women's voices through a scientific and rational lens. She was succeeded by Ismat Chughtai, who like her contemporary Saadat Hasan Manto courted controversy by writing openly about sexualities and class. With the onset of partition, as the progressive writers were split across two nations, they carried with them the vision of a secular borderless world. In Pakistan, Urdu became an ideological ground for state formation, and Urdu writers came under state surveillance in the Cold War era. The study picks up the story of progressive women poets in Pakistan to try and understand their response to emerging dominant narratives of nation, community and gender. How did national politics and an ideological Islamisation that was at odds with a secular separation of church and state affect their writing? Despite the disintegration of the Progressive Writers Movement and the official closure of the Left in Pakistan, the author argues that an exceptional legacy can be found in the voices of distinctive women poets including Ada Jafri, Zehra Nigah, Sara Shagufta, Parvin Shakir, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed. Their poems offer new metaphors and symbols borrowing from feminist thought and a hybrid Islamicate culture. Riaz and Naheed joined forces with the women's movement in Pakistan in the 1980s and caused some discomfort amongst Urdu literary circles with their writing. Celebrated across both sides of the border, their poetry and politics is less well known than the verse of the progressive poet par excellence Faiz Ahmed Faiz or the hard hitting lyrics of Habib Jalib. The book demonstrates how they manipulate and appropriate a national language as mother tongue speakers to enunciate a middle ground between the sacred and secular. In doing so they offer a new aesthetic that is inspired by activism and influenced by feminist philosophy. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When they do write, they write in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out their latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. They can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aligarh Muslim University was the principal institution that fostered separatism among Indian Muslims. Created for providing English model of education to the Muslim elites, it led in creating the separatist doctrine of two nation theory and also in activism on the ground. Prof. MP Jain discusses AMU's epicentric contribution to India's partition.

Teaching of Sanatana Dharma in Aligarh Muslim University? Is this an honest effort or another hoax in the long history of AMU, which enjoys minority institution status in spite of being centrally funded. Does anyone in AMU knows the meaning of Sanatana Dharma? Sanjay Dixit examines.

Born in a lower-middle-class family in Aligarh, Rinku Singh saw his father deliver LPG cylinders to make ends meet. What else he did do to make his name in the cricketing community? Listen to this episode as RJ Roshan narrates Rinku Singh's story from sweeping the floor to sweeping the bails.

In this episode, Shubhajit Roy joins host Snigdha Sharma to discuss the significance of PM Modi's three-day visit to Europe.Next, Pranav Mukul tells us all about Swiggy's trials for drone deliveries.And finally, we go over details of a religious event in Aligarh that has brought its organisers under the scanner.

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with tonight's guest, Tabish Ahmed Hashmi. What is Tabish up to these days? What is his background? What was life like post-migration? What were the people of Aligarh like? What to joke and what to not joke about? Is it possible that Aligarh influenced him in some way? What has his education been like? The “Failing in Math” story. How did his four years at university go? How and when did he start public speaking? Was he always this funny? The university's assistance in his development. Starting his first job and how he got it? What exactly did his job entail? Switching his job and how did it go? How did he make the work environment conducive? What was it like working with 3M? How was it like joining a Tech Company? How and when did he start stand-up comedy? How does comedy work? Comedy in Pakistan and how it can be made better? How did To be honest (TBH) begin? Joining Geo News and is he excited for the new show? What to expect from the new show? Acceptance of difference of opinion. Why doesn't he join politics? Thoughts on Geo reaching him at this time? The growth mindset! How does he envision the Pakistan of 2050? Catch this and much more in tonight's episode. Do not forget to subscribe and press the bell icon to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way! Connect with us: • https://www.instagram.com/thoughtbehindthings • https://www.instagram.com/muzamilhasan Tabish's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabishhashmi/?hl=en The Pakistan Pivot podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCnzyQYBT6g&t=1297s&ab_channel=PakistanNow TBT shorts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6akyz6EpkwyzBmKh0L2rSQ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/syed-muzamil-hasan-zaidi3/support

Two things can change the course of our lives, says our guest for this episode of Discover Your SecondAct Podcast, the books that we read, and the people we meet. Born in Aligarh, Himanshu Saxena started his professional journey as a geologist, going on to join the Indian Army, today he is the CEO of the Center of Strategic Mindset, Design Thinker & Mindfulness Practitioner, it is undoubtedly the combined influence of books and people, he says that has helped him carve out his destiny. Leading leaders of the world, showing people that transformation happens from within, he ranks today in the #Global Top 100 MG Coaches in Strategy, Purpose & Culture. Key highlights: Two things can change the course of your life- the books that you read and the people you meet Life is not binary- it's not to be lived through one particular lens. Sometimes you got to look before you leap, and sometimes you ought to leap before you look, but at all times you've got to have the discretion to know which one to choose Our life need not be surrendered to one domain- we can have multiple avatars Creating a future is a combination of two things- you got to have a vision and secondly, you've got to have iron-clad rituals, because vision without rituals will not manifest People are a product of experiences, but experiences have a shelf life too Intentional choices are as important as chance encounters Let risk be your best friend Keep asking what is not serving me and actively make it a habit to eliminate it The choice of place and surroundings we make charts out our life Invest in learning- it might cash you greater returns than you expect Paying attention to that creative dissatisfaction is the route to finding your #SecondAct Why should you listen to this podcast: Life is too short to wonder about all the choices we didn't make, wouldn't you agree? Making a switch in career might seem scary, especially when it nudges us out of our comfort zones. What then should one do when the ‘why' of their existence spins about in their minds? It is questions like this that we've tried to address in this podcast. You might not magically discover your ‘why' but we hope that you find the road that takes you towards discovering it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iiact/message

In the study of 19th and 20th century Chinese history, there is often focus on the intense Christian missionary activities happening in China. Yet at the same time, members of China's Hui (or Sino-Muslim) community were also beginning to reconnect with their co-religionists overseas. Armed with knowledge of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu and trained in Western orientalist discourses in new religious schools overseas, these Hui scholars began to "rediscover" aspects of Islam and in the process rewrite the history of Islam in China both for audiences within China and for a non-Chinese audience overseas. In this episode, we are joined by Professor Nile Green of UCLA to talk about how and why these exchanges took place and some of the implications of these exchanges. Please also be sure to check out Professor Green's podcast "Akbar's Chamber" for monthly episodes on the history of Islam. Available on Apple Podcasts and all other major podcast platforms. Contributors Professor Nile Green Professor Nile Green is a Professor of History and the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. He works on the Islamic history of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, publishing numerous monographs and articles and editing seven books on a wide range of topics related to the history of Islam. His recent research interest is on the global history of Islam and Muslims, focusing on intellectual and technological interchange between Asia and Europe; Muslim global travel writings; the transnational genealogy of Afghan modernism; and the world history of 'Islamic' printing. He was a founding director of UCLA's Program on Central Asia and serves on many association and editorial boards. He is also the host of Akbar's Chamber, a podcast that offers a non-political, non-sectarian and non-partisan space for exploring the past and present of Islam. Yiming Ha Yiming Ha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research is on military mobilization and state-building in China between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on how military institutions changed over time, how the state responded to these changes, the disconnect between the center and localities, and the broader implications that the military had on the state. His project highlights in particular the role of the Mongol Yuan in introducing an alternative form of military mobilization that radically transformed the Chinese state. He is also interested in military history, nomadic history, comparative Eurasian state-building, and the history of maritime interactions in early modern East Asia. He received his BA from UCLA and his MPhil from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Credits Episode no. 9 Release date: March 13, 2022 Recording location: Los Angeles, CA Bibliography courtesy of Professor Green Images Cover Image: Masjid at the Aligarh Muslim University (formerly Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College) in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded by Sir Thomas Arnold and was (and still is) a major center of Islamic learning (Image Source). A view of the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India, an Islamic seminary where Hai Weiliang* studied (Image Source). Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930), a renowned British orientalist and Islamic scholar who wrote the famous The Preaching of Islam and The Encyclopedia of Islam. He founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University) and taught Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, who was the teacher of Hai Weiliang (Image Source). Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (1884-1953), the teacher and educational patron of Hai Weiliang (Image Source). * Sadly, no pictures of Hai Weiliang can be found. References Green, Nile. How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2022. Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor. The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor. “Taking ʿAbduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century.” In James Gelvin and Nile Green (eds.), Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, edited by James Gelvin and Nile Green, 249-267. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Chen, John. “‘Just Like Old Friends': The Significance of Southeast Asia to Modern Chinese Islam.” SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 31, no. 3 (2016): 685–742. Chen, John. “Islam's Loneliest Cosmopolitan: Badr al-Din Hai Weiliang, the Lucknow-Cairo Connection, and the Circumscription of Islamic Transnationalism.” ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 3/2 (2018): 121-139.  Chung, Tan & Ravni Thakur (eds). Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1998. Henning, Stefan. “God's Translator: Qu'ran Translation and the Struggle over a Written National Language in 1930s China.” Modern China 41, no. 6 (2015): 631-655. Jahn, Karl. China in der islamischen Geschichtsschreibung. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1971. Lipman, Jonathan N.  Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Mao, Yufeng. “A Muslim Vision for the Chinese Nation: Chinese Pilgrimage Missions to Mecca during World War II.” The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 2 (2011): 373–395. Murata, Sachiko. “The Muslim Appropriate of Confucian Thought in Eighteenth-Century China.” Comparative Islamic Studies 7, no. 1-2 (2012): 13–22. O'Sullivan, Michael. “Vernacular Capitalism and Intellectual History in a Gujarati Account of China, 1860–68.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 2 (2021): 267–292. Park, Hyunhee. Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Petersen, Kristian. Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Sen, Tansen. India, China, and the World: A Connected History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Thum, Rian. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

David Lelyveld is a retired Professor of History at William Paterson University in the United States, is the author of Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (1978, reprinted 2003) and co- editor of A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective (2005). David received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Minnesota, Columbia and Cornell.

Farishta who? Where? Find a human in - Bhai Najam (Janaab Najmul Islam sahab Faruqui, Aligarh)

Hansal Mehta's Aligarh is based on the real-life story of the Aligarh University professor who was persecuted and laid-off for his sexual orientation and translates as a heart-breaking story of discrimination. When a local news channel manages to shoot this professor allegedly having sex with a rickshaw puller, he's singled out and ostracised and eventually, compelled to consider extreme measures.Headlined by Manoj Bajpayee, who plays the wronged academic and Rajkummar Rao, who plays a journalist hopeful of getting to the bottom of the affair, Aligarh is a telling portrait of homophobia and a society that is blatantly intolerant of sexual minorities. The film also draws a compelling account of loneliness and how those who must fend for themselves get by with little help or support. But what really shines through in this film is Bajpayee's ability to slip into his character with such immersion that you can weigh in on his thoughts and feelings in almost every single frame.  Mehta's immersive narrative and style of storytelling allow us a ringside view of the proceedings without manipulating how we process or accept this story. Aligarh is surely one of Mehta's most compelling works, along with Citylight and Shahid. Some may feel that this film speaks for those who are routinely marginalised on account of their sexuality and makes a case for being more inclusive. But Aligarh also documents a man's struggle to survive and be accepted for who he is, at a point when his right to have a private life has been violated. If you haven't watched this gem do so now on OTT. It is streaming now on Eros Now, Zee5, Aitel tv, JioAlright, that's the end of this podcast OTTplay Lost and Found, I shall be back again with a brand new film critically acclaimed but lesser-known, until then it's your host Nikhil signing out.

When PM Modi went to AMU and called it the 'epicentre of National Movement', one knew instantly that it was a tribute to the success of the Aligarh School of History in completely whitewashing not just the History of India, but also the History of the National Movement. Prakhar Srivastava, the well known media personality, joins Sanjay Dixit to lift the veil from the real face of AMU, the real AMU that was Jinnah's arsenal and that led the intellectual and physical battle for the nation of Pakistan, not of India.

8. Aligarh to Allahabad Revolt| India History | India History in Hindi | Bharat ka Itihas |India before Independence |Indian History in story | Indian Mutiny British Raj भारत का इतिहास Mangal Pandey

8. Aligarh to Allahabad Revolt| India History | India History in Hindi | Bharat ka Itihas |India before Independence |Indian History in story | Indian Mutiny British Raj भारत का इतिहास Mangal Pandey

On this episode, host Sidharth Bhatia is joined by director Hansal Mehta. Hansal has made some highly critically acclaimed films such as Shahid and Aligarh, and recently dominated the OTT space with his web series 'Scam 1992' - a multi-part series that tells the compelling story of the stock market scandal of the 1990's. Hansal often also tweets on current topic and speaks up about industry matters.Here, Sidharth talks to Hansal Mehta about how the lockdowns have affected the film industry, the closure of cinemas, and the future of films and the wya films will be made in the coming months and years.Hansal also talks about not expecting this kind of euphoria and response for Scam 1992, at what point he realised they were working on something that would resonate, the combination of factors for the show's success, the 3 years it took to write and shoot the show, and lots more.They also talk about the banking system and frauds that have taken place over the years since Harshad Mehta's 1992 scam (Ketan Parekh, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya), how the pandemic has affected creativity among people, the big screen experience going away for the near future at least, how the benchmarks for success have changed and are not restricted to box office success anymore, the freedom to express ourselves, censorship, and tons more.Follow Hansal on Twitter & Instagram: https://twitter.com/mehtahansal and https://www.instagram.com/hansalmehtaFollow Sidharth Bhatia on Twitter and Instagram @bombaywallahbombaywallah and https://instagram.com/bombaywallahYou can listen to this show on The Wire's website, the IVM Podcasts website, app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Joe spotlights some poetry books by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, and Jessie Janeshek from indie publisher Stalking Horse Press; Archana talks about upcoming programs on Art Nouveau, the American Flag, basic makeup skills, and home food preservation; Jessica tells us about the beaded Pride pins we'll be making for our June Pinterest craft; the crew shares some of their favorite books, films, and music by and about LGBTQ people, including Madeline Miller's "Song of Achilles," the writing of David Sedaris, Hansal Mehta's "Aligarh," Leslie Jordan's "How Y'all Doing," the music of Husker Du, and Ezra Furman's book on Lou Reed's "Transformer;" Joe sings the praises of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the next topic of the "Unstuck in Time" book club.

While wealthy countries like the United States are rushing to vaccinate their populations and “reopen” their societies, the rest of the world continues to suffer. With hospitals overrun and life-saving oxygen supplies running low, India's government is reporting over 300,000 new COVID-19 infections every day (though evidence suggests the numbers are even higher). Meanwhile, Brazil suffered 70,000 COVID deaths in April alone, with poor and Black communities being hit the hardest, while a new, more contagious variant rips across the country. How have these preventable horrors come to pass? And what can we do to help?In this urgent episode of “The Marc Steiner Show,” spanning three continents, we bring you firsthand reports of the unfolding catastrophes in India and Brazil from guests who are living through them. Marc is joined by journalist and activist Ansab Amir, who is based in Aligarh, India, and multimedia journalist, radio reporter, documentary filmmaker, and TRNN contributor Mike Fox, who is based in Florianópolis, Brazil.Tune in for new episodes of The Marc Steiner Show every Tuesday on TRNN.

How Safdar, like the proverbial grasshopper, joined college only one year after his brother, elder to him by four years. How resistance brewed in a coffee cup. How Safdar and others revived IPTA, and were thrown out of it.

An Excerpt from a long conversation with the poet Ibbar Rabbi in 2003, New Delhi Ibbar Rabbi (born on 2 March 1941)is an important Hindi poet and journalist. Belongs to Aligarh in UP he came Delhi in 1960 and worked with the Navbharat Times till he retired. He is a well read poet and his interests include the history and art of Indian subcontinent. He has 4 books of poems Khansti Hui Nadi, Ghoshnapatra, Logbag, and Varsha Mein Bheegkar. Many of his poems translated into Russian, German, French and English apart from many Indian languages. Here is an excerpt from a long conversation recorded in the month of his 60th birthday at his residence in New Delhi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sm-irfan/message

When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings in Kabul reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living.Taran Khan shares her experience of writing 'Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul', with broadcaster Achala Sharma in this 7th episode of Cineink Podcast, Kitaab Kaulum. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021, Shadow City has been published by Vintage, Penguin Random House India.In the weekly trivia on books, Pervaiz Alam lists some of the best known travelogues written in English, Hindi and Urdu.

Three-time National Award-winner Manoj Bajpayee gets candid with Haroon Rashid about his struggles, success and his latest Zee5 global release, Silence. He's mastered mainstream Bollywood with films like Satya and Baaghi 3, marvelled critics with non-commercial films like Aligarh and even adapted to OTT platforms with dramas like The Family Man. Find out what he has in common with Shah Rukh Khan as they started their acting careers together. Manoj also talks about the pressure of box office and streaming platforms. Despite being in the business for over twenty years there is still hunger to learn from other actors – his current acting homework is binge-watching The Crown on Netflix!

Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 2019, December 01: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

Aligarh Uttar Pradesh, December 01, 2019: Discourse by Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj

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