Rakhshanda Jalil
Delhi-based writer, translator and literary historian. Her work on the progressive movement was published as Liking Progress, Loving Change (OUP). She runs an organisation called Hindustani Awaaz to promote Urdu-Hindi literature and culture.
By Rakhshanda Jalil
The myriad shades of life and living are reflected in the bard's vast and varied oeuvre.
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Somewhere along the way, they have become more about getting footfall, and claiming more print and media space.
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Can neither belief system live while the other survives?
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Humour, no matter how puerile, cannot be a shield for xenophobia.
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We need systems to deal with issues that may be debated from writers’ platforms by writers themselves.
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In poem after poem she reveals the dualities of her daily lived life: her iconic onscreen characters and the tugs and pulls of her inner life.
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