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Sunil Sharma

How Persian literature imagined Alexander the Great’s romantic relationships around the world

A range of texts depicts his travels to foreign lands and the women he encounters in each place.

Sunil Sharma
· Jan 04, 2023 · 09:30 pm
A glimpse of five centuries of Amir Khusraw’s poetry

A peek at Persian manuscripts of the writer’s work in the British Library.

Sunil Sharma
· Oct 05, 2022 · 01:30 pm
Illustrations: In the Dakhni romantic tale ‘Phulban’, love meets conspiracy and adventure

The verse was composed in 1656 by the court poet Muhammad Mazharuddin Ibn Nishati.

Sunil Sharma
· Dec 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm

How Ottoman Turks depicted women of India and other parts of the world

A manuscript has thirty-eight illustrations, largely of women of various ethnicities and nationalities.

Sunil Sharma
· Nov 22, 2016 · 07:30 pm