Ektara video magazine, March 2019

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Ektara video magazine
March 2019
(See the list of previous issues)

Imagine, what pain would a loving mother
have endured while bringing up a child
who is hacked to death by the slayer in one attack.
If you cannot tolerate the prick of an arrow on your body,
you have no right to use a sword on someone's neck.
You're proud of killing hundreds of your enemies in a battle?
We'd consider you a real man if you bring a dead one alive!
~ Amir Khusrau Dehlavi (1253-1325)

Welcome to Ektara, an online platform of shared history, society and culture of India and South Asia. We hope our video stories and interviews will entertain and inspire you, and arouse your appetite for more about our rich and diverse pasts. Ektara magazine comes out once every two months. We need your support to keep it running. We even invite your contributions for its content.

In this new issue, we bring you the following videos and announcements:

1. The Ganita Story: a documentary film on the history of Mathematics
2. From Mecca to Sufi Shrines: Exhibition of Islamic Poster Art at SBU, NY
3. History of Indian Nationalism: Online resources
4. Tasveer Ghar update: Two new visual essays on the images of masculinities
5. Featured video: Going Back to Pakistan: 70 Years After Partition (Witness)
6. Other event announcements

1. The Ganita Story: a documentary film on the history of Mathematics
How did the humans learn to count? Where did the numbers come from? Who invented zero and negative numbers? How did people in ancient India, Babylonia, Egypt, Greece and China develop principles of arithmetic and geometry. This award-winning documentary film looks at some concepts like the number system, Pythagoras theorem and proof in mathematics.

2. From Mecca to Sufi Shrines: Exhibition of Islamic Poster Art at SBU, NY
For those of you at the Long Island, New York (United States), here is an opportunity to see an exhibition of Islamic poster art from South Asia being held from 13th March to 5th May 2019, at the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University. Here are the details of the exhibition >>

3. History of Indian Nationalism: Online resources
Did the concept of nation and nationalism come naturally to India or did it have its origins elsewhere. Here are some select links and resources that throw light on various aspects of nationalism in India >>

4. Tasveer Ghar: New visual essays on Masculinities in South Asia
Tasveer Ghar announces two new visual essays as part of its ongoing project ‘Manly Matters’ about the iconographies of the masculine in South Asian visual culture.

(a) Madhuja Mukherjee: Framing the Couple: Gender and Intimacy in Hindi Cinema and Film Publicity during the 1950s. http://tasveergharindia.net/essay/framing-film-publicity.html

(b) Kanika Singh: Masculinity in Sikh Visual Culture: Representing the Guru and the Martyr. http://tasveergharindia.net/essay/masculine-sikh-guru-martyr.html

5. Featured video: Going Back to Pakistan: 70 Years After Partition (Witness)
"Before I die, I want to go back to where I was born." Krishan Kumar Khanna grew up just outside Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. After a childhood he remembers fondly, his life changed dramatically in August 1947. A video from Al-Jazeera.

Other forthcoming culture/arts events and news:

(a) Artists Unite, Delhi - Chalo Laal Qila! 2-3 March 2019.

(b) Second edition of the book 'Muslim Devotional Art in India' (with a new Afterword)
available now to order in India/South Asia and the rest of the world.

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