Ektara video magazine, May 2018

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

Greetings for the International Workers' Day, 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. Ustad Aslam Hussain Khan, a tribute (Part 1)
2. Mazdoor ki bansuri, a nazm by Jameel Mazhari (on May Day)
3. New Features from Tasveer Ghar: Indian Constitution - A National Gallery of a Few Good Men. Also, Hyper Masculinity and Print Alcohol Ads in India
4. History Link: International treaties, from antiquity to the digital age

1. Ustad Aslam Hussain Khan, a tribute (Part 1)
Ustad Aslam Hussain Khan of Hapur-Khurja gharana of Hindustani music left us on 21st March 2018. Ektara pays him a tribute by bringing an old recording of his performance where he introduces his gharana and his teachers. This performance was recorded on 22 August, 2008, as part of an international Conference on ‘Hindustani Music and Partition’, held at Jamia Millia Islamia, at New Delhi.

2. Mazdoor ki bansuri, a nazm by Jameel Mazhari
From the Ektara archive: On Labour Day (1st May), Sadia Wahidi recites Jameel Mazhari's Urdu poem Mazdoor ki bansuri (A Worker's Flute).
Another poem on MayDay (from Ektara archive)

3. New from Tasveer Ghar, the archive of South Asian's popular visual culture:

Sourav Roy: The Constitution of India: A National Gallery of a Few Good Men.
A visual essay on the Constitution of India as a visual document embodying masculine ideals. http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/184

Rupali Sehgal: Selling Intoxicating Bondings: Hyper Masculinity and Print Alcohol Ads in India. A gallery of Indian liquor advertisements showing the tropes of masculinity. http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/183

4. History Link: Super Pacts
An interactive educational map showing a few important international treaties, from antiquity to the digital age, that have changed the course of world history.
From the Lapham's Quarterly. See here >>

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