Ektara video magazine, May 2017

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Ektara video magazine
May 2017
(See the list of previous issues)

Welcome to the May 2017 issue of Ektara, the online video magazine of history, arts and culture of India and South Asia. We hope our stories and interviews will entertain and inspire you, and arouse your appetite for more about our rich and diverse pasts. (This magazine was previously known as Etihas.in). Ektara magazine comes out once every two months.

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

1. Yakum Mai, Yaum-e mazdoor: Urdu poetry on Labour Day
2. Mazdoor ki bansuri, a nazm by Jameel Mazhari (on May Day)
3. Poet Kabir: Guide to online resources
4. Gurukul - A story of hope (documentary)

1. Yakum Mai, Yaum-e mazdoor: Urdu poetry on Labour Day
Sadia Wahidi recites selection from Urdu poetry celebrating
(and sometime lamenting) the Labour Day on 1st May.

2. Mazdoor ki bansuri, a nazm by Jameel Mazhari (on May Day)
On Labour Day (1st May), Sadia Wahidi recites Jameel Mazhari's Urdu poem
Mazdoor ki bansuri (A Worker's Flute).

3. Poet Kabir: Guide to some online resources
15th century mystic poet from Banaras, Kabir opposed caste practices, rituals,
image-worship, and all forms of religious sectarianism through his poetry.
Here are some useful links >>

4. Gurukul - A story of hope (a documentary film)
The story of Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya (NGO) which runs a "school after school" for underprivileged children in the National Capital Region in India.

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