Ektara video magazine, November 2018

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Ektara video magazine
November 2018
(See the list of previous issues)

Greetings and a warm welcome to Ektara, the online video magazine of history, society 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. 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. Dhruv Sangari: More Makhdoom baje madhur bansari (qawwali)
2. Human Rights in India: Historical resources online
3. Nitin Desai: The Global Advocate for Sustainable Development, Part 2
4. Tasveer Ghar: New features in Manly Matters: Anurag Kashyap films,
Beauty salons for men
5. Announcement: The IFA Archive is open!

1. Dhruv Sangari: More Makhdoom baje madhur bansari (qawwali)
Dhruv Sangari (Bilal Chishti) and friends recite a Hindi tribute to the Chishti saint Makhdoom Sabir (1196-1291) of Kaliyar. Sabir Kaliyari was a disciple of Baba Farid who was also the Sufi master of Delhi's Nizamuddin Aulia. This recording made of a performance in 2017 in Delhi.

2. Human Rights in India: Historical resources online
Are 'human rights' a western concept or something that existed in Indian society in the past? We bring a few relevant links to the resources on the Internet about the historical background of human rights in India.

3. Nitin Desai: The global advocate for Sustainable Development, Part 2
Second part of a series of discussions with Nitin Desai, a senior economist who played a leading role in introducing the concept of sustainable development into economic policy. See the first part of this interview here >>

4. Tasveer Ghar: New features in Manly Matters Project
Tasveer Ghar's project on images of masculinity in South Asia brings two new visual essays: (1) "Changing Perceptions of 'Masculinity' among Males in Dhaka, Bangladesh" by Shabnam Naher and Mossabber Hossain, (2) "Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Anurag Kashyap" by Sarunas Paunksnis and Runa Chakraborty.

5. Announcement: The IFA Archive is open!
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangalore, announces the opening of the IFA Archive which hosts the materials from the arts and culture projects that IFA facilitated since 1995. Visit the archive here - http://theifaarchive.org

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