Civilisations must respect each other to survive, thrive: Mushtaq Ali
Hindustan TimesNoted filmmaker and alumnus Muzaffar Ali had a trip down memory lane during his recent visit to the Aligarh Muslim University campus here. The maker of movies such as Gaman, Umrao Jan, Aagaman and Anjuman, said, “Unless a civilisation respects other civilisations, it can neither develop nor survive.” At the auditorium, Ambreen Khan, who’s the art and culture curator and a visiting faculty at Jamia Millia Islamia, posed some pertinent questions to Muzaffar Ali. After the panel discussions, Prof M. Shafey Kidwai quoted Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and said: “Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.” Vice-chancellor Prof Gulrez in his address highlighted the importance of autobiographies, adding that autobiographies portrayed the life experiences and achievements of the author that influence and, at times, guide the younger generations. A panel discussion held on filmmaker Muzaffar Ali’s memoir at the Kennedy Auditorium was enriching for the attendees when he interacted with the students informally and took a range of questions on film writing, his films, his family, Lucknow, Aligarh, the title of his book and his Muslim identity.
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