Aakash Mein Surakh: Dushyant Kumar’s Verses for Social Movements
Dushyant Kumar (1933-1975) was a prominent Hindi language poet and a pioneer of the Hindi ghazal. He worked as a scriptwriter for All India Radio and wrote at a politically sensiti
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The Trauma and Tragedy of Women: B Prabha’s Paintings of Women
Most artists have some formative experiences that influence their style and thematic concerns. For B Prabha it was the plaintive expression on the faces of women all around her, a
Mor manat bhin par nai: The jikirs and jaris of Ajan Fakir
Long before Muslims rulers arrived in the Indian subcontinent, Islam had already reached. Starting in the seventh century, contact with Islam was established through seafarers, tra
We Ought to Have Met: Unrequited, Untimely Love in Parveen Shakir’s Verse
On her sixty-seventh birth anniversary last week, a Google Doodle commemorated Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir. Born in post-independence Bihar, Shakir grew to be a tradition defying