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Special Report: Is Hemant Soren's Maiya Yojna silently changing the game in Jharkhand
1 month, 1 week ago

Special Report: Is Hemant Soren's Maiya Yojna silently changing the game in Jharkhand

India Today  

Alpha Purthi dropped out of school during the Covid days as her family lacked the resources to provide her with a mobile phone for virtual classes. When asked if she applied for the BJP's Gogo Didi scheme, which promises Rs 2,100 assistance if they win the elections, she said, "No, we won’t take the BJP’s scheme." "While Maiya Yojna supports …

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Amar Singh Chamkila: Bawdy songs and radical obscenity
8 months ago

Amar Singh Chamkila: Bawdy songs and radical obscenity

Business Standard  

During a musical tour of Canada in 1987, Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila, played by Diljit Dosanjh in the recently released biopic, is summoned by a committee of Sikh religious leaders. Musician and ethnomusicologist Gibb Schreffler classifies the popular duo of Chamkila and Amarjot as a subcategory of “commercial folk music” that reached a peak in the 1970s and ’80s. …

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Rakhshanda Jalil – “I refuse to be bullied or marginalised”
1 year ago

Rakhshanda Jalil – “I refuse to be bullied or marginalised”

Hindustan Times  

Has the focus on Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Premchand, Qurratulain Hyder, and Gulzar among Urdu-English translators overshadowed other writers from being known more widely? In this instance, while talking about the best of Urdu short stories, I clearly didn’t want to start with the “four pillars of the Urdu short story” namely Saadat Hasan Manto, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Ismat …

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‘One life is not enough’, says Jatin Das
1 year, 1 month ago

‘One life is not enough’, says Jatin Das

Hindustan Times  

The best way a daughter can celebrate her birthday is with the warmth of colour, and if she happens to be a painter’s daughter then it is colours, canvas and a paint brush. Jatin Das celebrated his daughter Nandita Das's birthday is by showcasing 60 years of his work to the world. “There is never enough time to sieve through …

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Karn to Manto: A new dastangoi festival sweeps the arc of Indian bestsellers
1 year, 5 months ago

Karn to Manto: A new dastangoi festival sweeps the arc of Indian bestsellers

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI The playbill of Mahmood Farooqui’s new dastangoi festival at Prithvi Theatre reads like a dastan-e-Hindustan. Farooqui says, “I have grown up memorising the tables, the Quran, poems, and Sanskrit shlokas.” “‘Raag Darbari’ bears reading again and again,” says Farooqui, also co-director of ‘Peepli Live’. Wherever you turn, you find ‘Raag Darbari’ has been there before you.” The origin story …

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I’m Not the River Jhelum: A tale of two Kashmirs
2 years ago

I’m Not the River Jhelum: A tale of two Kashmirs

Live Mint  

Beauty and violence are no strangers. Prabhash Chandra’s unabashedly political and lyrically haunting film I'm Not the River Jhelum explores their intricate relationship through its protagonist Afeefa in heavily militarized Kashmir. Though the film was made before the abrogation of Kashmir’s special status, its powerful representation of terror, trauma, and state-making makes it even more relevant after the state lost …

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In Nandita Das' Zwigato Kapil Sharma finally makes the grade as an actor
2 years, 3 months ago

In Nandita Das' Zwigato Kapil Sharma finally makes the grade as an actor

Firstpost  

In Zwigato, Kapil Sharma reminds us of Amol Palekar in Basu Chatterjee’s cinema. After two very dark directorials, Firaaq and Manto Nandita Das attempts a much lighter shade in Zwigato. Nandita Das ’ latest directorial project Zwigato, produced by the indefatigably enterprising Applause Entertainment, features the most unlikely delivery boy you will ever get to meet. In Zwigato, Kapil Sharma …

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Writing Partition: A violent birth
2 years, 4 months ago

Writing Partition: A violent birth

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 14, 2022 06:00 IST Seventy-five years after Partition, its memory remains strong and graphic. Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, perhaps the best-known Partition novel, is set in the small border village of Mano Majra, which was declared to be in India. “I lobbed grenades into the windows of Sikhs and Hindus I’d known all my life,” boasts …

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Actor Kamal Haasan and writer Jeyamohan discuss world literature, filmmaking and the power of narrative
2 years, 5 months ago

Actor Kamal Haasan and writer Jeyamohan discuss world literature, filmmaking and the power of narrative

The Hindu  

Of all the facets of Kamal Haasan — actor, director, screenwriter, dancer, singer, politician and more — perhaps the least discussed is his engagement with Tamil literature. Last week, Haasan caught up with prolific Tamil writer Jeyamohan, whose new book, Stories of the True, the English translation of his bestselling short story collection, Aram, releases on July 27. Edited and …

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Review: The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Volume 1, Bombay and Poona, translated by Nasreen Rehman
2 years, 5 months ago

Review: The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Volume 1, Bombay and Poona, translated by Nasreen Rehman

Hindustan Times  

So it’s happening finally. We are in the process of being presented with English translations of all of Saadat Hasan Manto’s 255 known stories. Stories are peppered with people from all parts of the subcontinent adding yet another layer to Manto’s encyclopedic drive to catch Bombay in all its mad diversity. The anthology launches itself with eight filmi stories starting …

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Rasika Dugal felt she had acted so badly in her film Qissa, she cried all night
2 years, 6 months ago

Rasika Dugal felt she had acted so badly in her film Qissa, she cried all night

Hindustan Times  

Rasika Dugal has worked in projects across genres and across platforms. In a chat with Hindustan Times, Rasika talks about the experience, why she once cried all night after watching herself on screen, and the manic craze around her popular web series Mirzapur. Between The Miniaturist of Junagadh and her other works like Qissa, Manto, and A Suitable Boy, Rasika …

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Short story: The Photograph by Saadat Hasan Manto
2 years, 6 months ago

Short story: The Photograph by Saadat Hasan Manto

Hindustan Times  

‘They’re dead!’ ‘All of them?’ ‘Yes, all of them. Let’s talk about love and adoration.’ ‘You just said that you feel like a hundred-year-old man.’ ‘Yes, but my heart is young.’ ‘What can I say about your heart! I’ve never ever seen such a heartless woman in my life!’ ‘How many women have you seen to date?’ ‘Thousands, millions…these days …

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HT Picks; New Reads
2 years, 7 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

Of Bombay and Poona On the reading list this week is a volume of Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories and essays, writings by colonial Indians that shaped our world, and a memoir of a life of adventure. This book is the first of a three-volume series which will contain all of Saadat Hasan Manto’s 255 known stories translated into English. The …

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui on his prep to play Laila in Heropanti 2, equation with Tiger Shroff and more
2 years, 7 months ago

Nawazuddin Siddiqui on his prep to play Laila in Heropanti 2, equation with Tiger Shroff and more

Firstpost  

In his career spanning over two decades, critically acclaimed actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has not only played many diverse roles – The Lunchbox, Raman Raghav 2.0, or in the International Emmy’s nominated Sacred Games, or biographical drama Manto -- the actor also aced being an antagonist in films like Kick, Badlapur, or as don Faizal Khan in Anurag Kashyap’s gangster epic …

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Tahir Raj Bhasin: Working with Nawazuddin Siddiqui on 'Manto' was a live masterclass
3 years, 3 months ago

Tahir Raj Bhasin: Working with Nawazuddin Siddiqui on 'Manto' was a live masterclass

India TV News  

Tahir Raj Bhasin has gone down memory lane as his movie 'Manto' has completed three years of its release in Hindi cinema. Nawazuddin plays Saadat Hasan Manto and Tahir essays the role of 1940s Bollywood superstar Shyam Chadda. Tahir said: "Working with Nawazuddin Siddique on Manto was a live masterclass. To work with Nawaz was a great challenge and meant …

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AfsanaBadosh ep 4: Listen to Manto's 'Mera Naam Radha Hai' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam
3 years, 5 months ago

AfsanaBadosh ep 4: Listen to Manto's 'Mera Naam Radha Hai' | Presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam

Firstpost  

AfsanaBadosh, presented by Firstpost and Jashn-E-Qalam, celebrates the spirit of storytelling through narrations of the greatest Hindi and Urdu stories. This is Episode 4 — Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Mera Naam Radha Hai’, as performed by KC Shankar. Episode 4 — Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Mera Naam Radha Hai’, performed by KC Shankar. In ‘MERA NAAM RADHA HAI’, he talks about how …

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The Friday List: From a discussion on eco-tourism to a typography workshop, your weekly calendar of virtual events
3 years, 6 months ago

The Friday List: From a discussion on eco-tourism to a typography workshop, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Firstpost  

Compiled by Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe Few weeks into another lockdown, just when coming to grips with the increasing cases of the COVID-19 virus had once again become the new normal, drastic weather patterns leading to cyclones and rains have become threatening reminders that all is not well yet. When: 28 May Where: HCL Concerts’ Facebook page — Virtual ballet The Royal …

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Essay: On the influence of Bhasha literature on Indian English writing
3 years, 8 months ago

Essay: On the influence of Bhasha literature on Indian English writing

Hindustan Times  

Why is a novel of growth and education – the bildungsroman – so attractive to aspiring writers? For a young writer in the Anglophone postcolonial world, modernist bildungsromans such as James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man and DH Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers quickly come to embody the longing for a certain model of artistic craft. …

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‘He Faced The New Year With His Arsenal’: A Short Fiction By Manto
3 years, 11 months ago

‘He Faced The New Year With His Arsenal’: A Short Fiction By Manto

The Quint  

On several occasions he had to go to the wealthy men of the city for financial aid. “You have been appointed the guardian of the city’s health but in reality you are the kingpin of amassing sicknesses. In government records your name is listed as Health Officer but in my book your name is listed under those who sell diseases …

Shweta Tripathi and Rasika Dugal on how they hold their own in Mirzapur 2's patriarchal world
4 years, 1 month ago

Shweta Tripathi and Rasika Dugal on how they hold their own in Mirzapur 2's patriarchal world

Firstpost  

Set in the hinterland of Uttar Pradesh, Amazon Prime Video series Mirzapur — a high-on-testosterone world of gangs, guns, crime, corruption and mafia may have men at the centerstage but strong women actors like Rasika Dugal, Shweta Tripathi, Shriya Pilgaonkar and Harshita Gaur play pivotal roles in the series. The leading ladies, Dugal and Tripathi revealed the interesting developments and …

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Binge Worthy: 5 Biopics That will Make You Salute the Indomitable Human Spirit
4 years, 4 months ago

Binge Worthy: 5 Biopics That will Make You Salute the Indomitable Human Spirit

News 18  

With Vidya Balan getting rave reviews for Shakuntala Devi, it seems the biopics are going to remain the flavor of the season for some more time. Where to watch: Sony LIV Celluloid Premise: While Dadashaeb Phalke made India's first feature film, JC Daniel was the one to make first-ever Malayam film Vigathakumaran in 1928. Where to Watch: Netflix 12 Years …

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Manto's Women: A Feminist Exploration of Characters
6 years, 11 months ago

Manto's Women: A Feminist Exploration of Characters

The Quint  

The article focuses on RJ Sayema's perspective on Saadat Hasan Manto's work. Sayema describes Manto as a feminist who challenges societal norms and prejudices. She highlights her favorite female characters, including Sugandhi, Sharda, Sarita, Kulwant Kaur, and the protagonist of Mera Naam Radha Hai. Sayema's perspective suggests that Manto's work is deeply feminist and challenges the traditional portrayal of women …

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