Shahryar’s passing is a monumental loss to modern Urdu poetry and to the world of Indian literature.
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What does the award acknowledge? A life time’s achievement? An outstanding talent? Or, an exceptional contribution to a particular language and literature?
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It should. For he represented the place that was once a vibrant society, the home for people of all faiths and cultural inclinations. Not the stifled, torn, violent state it has become today
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Soon after Ashutosh Gowarikar's film, came Salman Rushdie's "short fiction" in the New Yorker, also coincidentally on Akbar's Jodha. 'Disgruntled' was how I felt when it was over...
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Yes, 'Urdu' means 'military camp' in Turkish, but by the eighteenth century, it merely meant 'the city of Delhi'. The fascinating story of how the language whose name(s) were Hindi/ Hindvi/ Goojri/ Rekhta/ Dakhani at various times and places came to
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