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Honouring Iqbal in the land of Tagore

Honouring Iqbal in the land of Tagore

The guest of honour Prof. Waleed Iqbal, flew to Kolkata from Lahore to receive the ‘Tarana-e-Hindi’ Award bestowed posthumously on his grandfather, Allama Iqbal Thousands of people in...
The Pakistan enigma

The Pakistan enigma

Indians who believe the narrative that Pakistanis hate India find it mind-boggling when they experience the intense love that ordinary Pakistanis have for them Indians and Pakistanis share the most...
Finding love in ‘enemy territory’: Swara Bhaskar on her Pakistan trip

Finding love in ‘enemy territory’: Swara Bhaskar on her Pakistan trip

Human relationships are greater than politics, says actor Swara Bhaskar after visiting Pakistan, a country she once thought of as “enemy territory”, where she was showered with warmth and...
‘Jashn-e-Iqbal’ fest in Kolkata to boost ‘Aman ki Asha’

‘Jashn-e-Iqbal’ fest in Kolkata to boost ‘Aman ki Asha’

The West Bengal Urdu Academy will posthumously award Allama Iqbal the Tarana-e-Hind award that his grandson Waleed Iqbal is coming from Lahore to receive The West Bengal government in India hopes its...
The magic of Manto

The magic of Manto

Commemorating the 103rd birth anniversary of the great short story writer Sadat Hasan Manto in Kolkata with an evening of poetry, film and theatre Last week, intellectuals, activists and ordinary...
Playing music back and forth

Playing music back and forth

Rekha Bhardwaj, whom not many people knew about until they had watched Haider, is a serious singer trained in and passionate about classical music I was at Ville Parle railway station when I received...
BRIEFS: Today in Mumbai, Sabeen Mahmud, dosti and democracy

BRIEFS: Today in Mumbai, Sabeen Mahmud, dosti and democracy

EVENT TODAY: Friday, 15 May 2015 Time: 7:30 pm (Registration: 7:00 pm) With: Anand Patwardhan, documentary filmmaker Danish Husain, poet, actor and theatre director Munizae Jahangir, journalist and...
BRIEFS: #KhelneDo! Resumption of cricketing ties?

BRIEFS: #KhelneDo! Resumption of cricketing ties?

It is good news that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to break the ice with Pakistan through “cricket diplomacy”, as IANS reported recently. “We have taken the decision to start a...
Rahul Dravid bats for India-Pakistan series from cricketing angle

Rahul Dravid bats for India-Pakistan series from cricketing angle

Giving his support for the proposed revival of Indo-Pak cricket series, former skipper Rahul Dravid on Thursday said he welcomed it from a purely cricketing perspective, although there were many...
BOOKSHELF: Punjab ka Batwara

BOOKSHELF: Punjab ka Batwara

Translating this book on the partition of the Punjab into Urdu, Hindi and Gurmukhi is part of an ongoing attempt to enable people to heal and move on “Punjab Ka Batwara: 1947 Eik Almia Hazar...