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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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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Watch: Madhuri Dixit does the viral ‘My Money Don’t Jiggle Jiggle’ dance trend on Instagram
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Does US have evidence of alients visiting us on Earth?
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Caste threads are spawning deadly conflicts in Tamil Nadu schools
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‘Nireeswaran’: A group of atheists plays a prank to mock religion. Things don’t go according to plan
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Tamil Nadu: BJP minority wing leader hacked to death in Chennai, say police
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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
Video
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‘Manchester United are rubbish’: BBC trainee learning how to write ticker text makes it to live TV
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Watch: How the mahua flower shapes the life and culture of tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh
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‘When will we do something?’: Basketball coach Steve Kerr’s angry outburst on US school shooting
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Watch: UP government official fires revolver in the air, claims it was a toy gun
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Watch: These ‘upside-down’ trains transport up to 82,000 commuters a day in Germany
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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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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ trailer: Christian Bale joins Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
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‘Zollywood’ trailer: Marathi film about Vidarbha’s theatre scene is coming soon to cinemas
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Watch: Teaser of new ‘Mission: Impossible’ film ‘Dead Reckoning Part One’ is out
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The highs and highs of Jatin-Lalit’s Hindi film soundtracks
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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.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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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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‘Devasted doesn’t begin to describe it’: Steve Kerr, LeBron James react to Texas school shooting
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Football: Chelsea sale gets approval from UK government
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HS Prannoy: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
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‘Can’t count David Miller out, he’s always been a match winner for us’: Titans captain Hardik Pandya
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Chess: Indian teenager Praggnanandhaa stuns Dutch GM Anish Giri to enter Chessable Masters final