Ektara video magazine, January 2025

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Ektara Newsletter
January 2025
(See the list of previous issues)

New Year's Greetings from Ektara (keeping in mind that many victims of war and violence in the world are not celebrating). Ektara is an online platform on shared history, heritage and arts with an aim to promote peace and communal harmony in India and the world. Ektara magazine has been running since January 2016. Your support will keep us floating.

In our January 2025 issue, we present the following features and videos:

Dear departed 2024
1. Dear departed in 2024: Important persons who passed away last year
Here are some Indian (as well as some international) writers, artists, scholars and media personalities who we lost in 2024.

2. Zakir Hussain and Dave Holland: Crosscurrents
Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, prolific bassist Dave Holland and their international ensemble perform together as Crosscurrents, a musical exploration of the influence of Indian music on the jazz and rock scenes of the 1960s.

3. Songs for the love of Palestine | Al Jazeera World Documentary
This film tells the stories of four songs that date back to early and mid-20th century Palestine and Jordan.

4. Books of Arabic scholar Badruddin Alhafiz
To mark the first death anniversary of India's Arabic scholar Badruddin Alhafiz (3 January), we are making some of his books available for sale.

5. Taking History to the Masses: Films and Digital Media are the Answer
An article published in NewsClick.in about the role of social media in popularizing history and other topics.

See the previous issues of Ektara magazine here >>