Friday, November 20, 2020

Get ready to groove to desi beats

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 Hyderabadi rappers Mudassir Ahmed and Syed Irshad are back with their new album ‘Resurrection 040’Deepawali is just over. Now get ready for some verbal fireworks.Haq ki awazMain hoon Hyderabadi aatishbaziKabhi na dekhi hogi alfazon ki golabariWatan se teri nafarmaniFarzi teri rashtravadiZalim...

Thursday, November 5, 2020

New book on Mirza Ghalib: the poet-intellectual

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 The book is sure to warm the hearts of aficionadosIs there anything left to be written about them? This is the question that comes to mind when one thinks of William Shakespeare and Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Over the years numerous scholars have probed and delved into every aspect of their...

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