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‘Jashn-e-Iqbal’ fest in Kolkata to boost ‘Aman ki Asha’
May 28, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Featured Top Stories, News, Poet Corner, Top Stories 2
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
May 19, 2015 Rucchita Karzaria Featured Top Stories, News, Poet Corner, Top Stories 0
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
May 18, 2015 Sehyr Mirza Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
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
May 15, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Briefs, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1
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?
May 15, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Briefs, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1
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
May 15, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories, Youth initiatives 0
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
May 13, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Aman ki Asha Bookshelf, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 1
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...
Briefs: Commemorating Manto in Kolkata
May 10, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Briefs, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
Honouring the great short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto on his 103rd birth anniversary today: a free public event in Kolkata featuring poetry, theatre and film ‘Manto: A Retrospective’...
If cricket be the food of better ties, play on
May 07, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
“Aman ki Asha, pyar ki bhasha!” shouts ‘Chacha Cricket’ in a new documentary on Indo-Pak cricket premiering on May 12 that examines the India-Pakistan relationship through the...
Salute to Sabeen from Delhi: love and hope
May 05, 2015 Aman Ki Asha Articles, Featured Top Stories, News, Top Stories 0
A May Day event at a bookstore-café in Delhi honours the inspiring Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud On May 1, 2015, the slain Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud was honoured at a bookstore-café in a...
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