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Rakhshanda Jalil
Rakhshanda Jalil is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘But You Don’t Look Like A Muslim’: Busting the myth of the monochromatic monotonous Musalman
An essay from Rakhshanda Jalil’s exploration of the Muslim identity in modern India.
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How Intizar Husain’s Partition trilogy gently probed the wounds of the tragedy
The first of a new series by translators on the writings of authors they have translated to English.
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‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
How Urdu poetry travelled through the battleground of hope and despair.
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Trending
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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
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How did the Hyderabad Police race against time to recover stolen artefacts from the Nizam’s Museum?
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India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
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India’s cough syrup testing regime has a deadly blind spot
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Adani bonds hit distressed levels after group calls off share sale
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Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry
From Premchand to the Progressive Writers, from political poets to film lyricists, they all wrote about farmers once. Not anymore.
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‘Never thought of myself as a rebel. A poet has a different framework’: Fahmida Riaz (1946-2018)
A tribute to the feminist revolutionary poet and writer from Pakistan, who died on November 21, 2018.
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He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?
A new biography examines the life and work of one of the most acclaimed modern Urdu poets.
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Video
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‘Journalism is not a crime’: Siddique Kappan after being released on bail after more than two years
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Caught on CCTV: Man steals gorilla statue kept outside a shop
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Watch: Tiger walks freely in tea garden, unbothered when car comes up close
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Watch: Students climb gate to enter exam centre because they were late
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Watch: Bystander, police officer rescue driver moments before crashed car bursts into flames
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Raza Rumi’s new book uses Pakistan’s culture to reveal a diverse, layered, contested country
Raza Rumi makes the reader look beyond a monolithic view of Pakistan to its multiple selves.
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‘Who will be left to live peacefully ever after?’: 10 conversations on communalism by Asghar Wajahat
Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, ten piercing conversations on hate, riots and religious discrimination.
Asghar Wajahat & Rakhshanda Jalil
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This is how Urdu poets marked, and remembered, India’s Republic Day
Six Urdu poems celebrating January 26.
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The Reel
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Bowing out in style: Soumitra Chatterjee’s late-career gems ‘Bela Seshe’ and ‘Mayurakshi’
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‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
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‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
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Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
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Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
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They don’t make poets, translators and performers like Anwar Jalalpuri (1947-2018) anymore
One of the best-known, and most-loved, figures at Urdu ‘mushairas’, Jalalpuri died on January 2, 2018.
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Milad-un-Nabi: How poets and lyricists celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad
The use of the language of conventional love poetry makes some people uncomfortable, however.
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Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary: These verses show us that Urdu poets revered the founder of Sikhism
There is a rich tradition in Urdu literature of poems on the first guru of Sikhism, including a pairing with Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
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The Field
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Cricket: Andrew Strauss – ‘IPL will become world's biggest domestic sporting event’
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Watch: U19 champions Shafali Verma and Co take a lap of honour in Ahmedabad during IND vs NZ match
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IND vs NZ: Hardik Pandya – ‘Shubman Gill is technically so sound that batting is very easy for him’
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Watch: Despite fractured forearm, Hanuma Vihari bats left-handed in Ranji Trophy quarterfinal
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La Liga: Barcelona secure win over Real Betis to extend lead at the top to eight points