Ektara video magazine, May 2021

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Ektara video magazine
May 2021
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A warm welcome to Ektara, the online video magazine of history, society and culture of India and South Asia. We hope and wish that you and your dear ones are doing well during covid-19 pandemic. Ektara magazine comes out once every two months. We need your support to keep it running.

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

1. Syed Raza Haidar talks about Ghalib Institute, Delhi
2. Indo-Persian Musical Confluence at UCLA, 2020-21
3. Soli Sorabjee (Patron of Jazz) passes on
4. Event: Sunil Sharma, Anthologies of Persian(ate) Poetry by Women
5. On 1st May: Mazdoor ki bansuri, an Urdu poem

1. Syed Raza Haidar talks about Ghalib Institute, Delhi
Dr. Syed Raza Haidar, an Urdu scholar, passed way due to Covid-19 in April 2021. In this excerpt from a conversation with the senior Urdu scholar Shamim Hanfi, Raza saheb talks about the early days of Ghalib Institute in Delhi.

2. Indo-Persian Musical Confluence at UCLA, 2020-21
The Indo-Persian Musical Confluence Symposium presents a series of performances, workshops, and presentations by academics, independent scholars, musicians and artists whose work relates to Indo-Persian musical cultures, including the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Iran. Watch the videos of various sessions at archive.org

3. Soli Sorabjee (Patron of Jazz) talks about Jazz
Former Attorney General of India, Soli Sorabjee, who passed away due to Covid-19 on 30 April 2021, talks about his passion for Jazz music in the series Art Talk.

4. Event: Sunil Sharma, Anthologies of Persian(ate) Poetry by Women
Almost a dozen anthologies featuring female Persian (and Turkish and Urdu) poets appeared in the 19th and early 20th century in Iran and North India. Prof. Sunil Sharma explores the larger social and literary contexts that gave rise to this literary phenomenon. Register here

5. On 1st May: Mazdoor ki bansuri (A worker's flute), an Urdu poem
On 1st May, the Labour Day, as millions of workers and migrants suffer in India and the world due to the lockdown and hardships of Covid-19, we bring back an old recording of an Urdu poem, recited by Sadia Wahidi.

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