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Review of ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’, Mir Taqi Mir’s couplets translated by Ranjit Hoskote
2 months ago

Review of ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’, Mir Taqi Mir’s couplets translated by Ranjit Hoskote

The Hindu  

The Homeland’s an Ocean presents a meticulously curated selection of 150 couplets from Mir Taqi Mir, one of Urdu’s most revered poets. Although not overtly political, Mir’s work subtly critiques the social order and power dynamics of his time, reflecting the dislocation and alienation caused by the decline of the Mughal empire and brutal foreign invasions. The detailed introduction by …

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Mir: A Symphony of Pain and Hope
2 months, 1 week ago

Mir: A Symphony of Pain and Hope

Hindustan Times  

A Bayaz is the personal diary of an Urdu poetry aficionado, who notes the select shers or verses they like as they listen to full poems, most often in the ghazal form, at Urdu mushairas or poetry gatherings. The book is a deeply personal selection, for which the title of the volume gives us a good insight.

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Lucknow’s iconic Pucca Pul closed to heavy vehicles after 110 years
6 months ago

Lucknow’s iconic Pucca Pul closed to heavy vehicles after 110 years

Hindustan Times  

Having served the city for 110 years, Lucknow’s iconic Pucca Pul is now closed to heavy vehicles as it is one of the 83 bridges in the state found “unfit to commute” amid concerns over its ability to handle modern traffic loads. Lucknow’s Pucca Pul The bridge connecting Daliganj and Chowk was completed on January 10, 1914. Over the decades, …

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Tech know-how eases cherry road congestion
1 year, 5 months ago

Tech know-how eases cherry road congestion

China Daily  

Employees pack Chilean cherries at a packing center in Shanghai. At the crack of dawn one day in May, Wang Xinduan, an engineer working on the Talca-Chillan section, or Taqi section, of Chile's Route 5, arrived at the Rio Carlo main toll station. The Maule region, where the Taqi section of Route 5 is located, happens to be Chile's leading …

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An Afghan newspaper is struggling to survive under the Taliban
3 years, 3 months ago

An Afghan newspaper is struggling to survive under the Taliban

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We are sorry,” says Sarujullhaq Omari, a member of …

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Afghan Journalists Arrested, Beaten by Taliban for Covering Women's Protest
3 years, 4 months ago

Afghan Journalists Arrested, Beaten by Taliban for Covering Women's Protest

The Quint  

The Taliban, on Wednesday night, had declared all demonstrations illegal unless the justice ministry had granted permission to hold them. Naqdi said as soon as he started taking pictures, a Taliban fighter confronted him and told him not to film. Then, three Taliban fighters caught him and took him to a police station where they beat him, reported AFP. When …

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Taliban beats protesters and arrests journalists at women’s rally in Kabul
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban beats protesters and arrests journalists at women’s rally in Kabul

LA Times  

After being shut out from the Taliban‘s new government, women increased pressure on Afghanistan‘s new rulers with a number of protests Wednesday, at least one of which was broken up by Taliban fighters who whipped some of the demonstrators and arrested local journalists. He said Taliban fighters tortured and beat him while he was in custody after being arrested while …

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Review: The Hidden Garden - Mir Taqi Mir by Gopi Chand Narang
3 years, 8 months ago

Review: The Hidden Garden - Mir Taqi Mir by Gopi Chand Narang

Hindustan Times  

224pp, ₹499; Penguin The pre-colonial cultural synthesis, literary and lexical confluence, and religious symbiosis produced several gifted poets whose outpourings, seemingly wrapped in plain words, explored the human predicament in intriguing ways. His new book, The Hidden Garden: Mir Taqi Mir seeks to delineate the creative dexterity of the great master poet of the eighteenth century. With a careful selection …

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Story of ghazal
4 years, 6 months ago

Story of ghazal

The Hindu  

“The ghazal is a marvel of the magnetic dynamism of husn o i’shq in highly charged metaphoric idiom. It is divided into three parts: Part I is devoted to the cultural landscape, to the exploration of India’s composite culture; Part II explores the classical foundation of the Urdu ghazal in which concepts of love, beauty and the self and rhetorical …

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