Ektara Magazine
August 2023
Ektara India is an online magazine on shared history,
heritage and arts of South Asia. One of our aims is to promote peace and
communal harmony in India and the world. Ektara magazine has been running since
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In our August 2023 issue, we present the
following features and videos:
1.
Feature: Understanding Mughal Portraiture - Prof. Kavita Singh
As art historian Prof. Kavita Singh left us on 30th
July 2023, we remember her through her lecture on Mughal portraiture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMb9UOzb-1k
2. Songs of the Mirasi
Singers: For Meo Muslims It’s Not the Same India
As several parts of India are undergoing social
tension and violence of various kinds, Ektara features this short video about Meo Muslims of the Mewat region in Haryana. (from the
Quint)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbM1UzbgS0
3. History for Peace Tracts
from Seagull Books
This book series is an attempt to address many questions about history by
putting into print thoughts, ideas and concerns of some of South Asia’s most
seminal thinkers. See Yousuf Saeed's Partitioning Bazaar Art Popular Visual Culture of India and Pakistan around 1947.
https://www.seagullbooks.org/books-by-series/history-for-peace-tracts/
https://www.seagullbooks.org/partitioning-bazaar-art/
4. Update on Cinema Qawwali Archive
While our cinema qawwali archive (cineqawwali.in)
is growing with new additions, some new videos and news reports have been
published about it:
(i) A video interview about the archive at thePrint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_SqyFm2gwk
(ii) 80-years of Qawwali in Cinema (thePrint)
https://theprint.in/ground-reports/80-years-of-qawwali-in-bombay-cinema-one-man-is-archiving-hindi-musics-crown-jewel/1578477/
(iii) A repository of melody (The
Tribune India)
https://tribuneindia.com/news/features/a-repository-of-melody-yousuf-saeeds-archive-of-cinema-qawwalis-516143
(vi) Are you a lover of qawwali? (The
Hindu)
https://thehindu.com/entertainment/music/are-you-a-lover-of-qawwali-then-yousuf-saeeds-cinema-qawwali-archive-is-for-you/article67036800.ece
(v) A filmmaker-researcher has been
documenting cinema qawwali (Mid-Day)
https://mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/in-search-of-the-cinema-qawwali-23285071
(vi) دہلی: 80 سال
کی 800 قوالیاں جمع کرنے والے شوقین (Independent Urdu)
https://www.independenturdu.com/node/142551
5. Event: A screening of the film
'A Feast in Rampur' on 11th August 2023 at Delhi
The documentary film 'Dastarkhwan-e Rampur, A Feast in Rampur' (60 mins) will
be screened at 6:30 pm on Friday, 11th August, 2023, at the C.D. Deshmukh
Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi. All are welcome to this free
event.
https://iicdelhi.in/programmes/dastarkhwan-e-rampur-feast-rampur
We hope you have been receiving the past issues of
Ektara magazine. Do send us your feedback. Also, we are open to contribution of
compelling video stories on shared history, heritage and history of South Asia
from all.
Thank you
Ektara team