partition – Itisaras

REVIVAL OF SUFI TRADITION THROUGH MUSIC

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 Debopriya Bhattacharya 2 Comments 18th century, 1947, A.R. Rahman, Allah Ke Bande, Baba Bulleh Shah, bass guitar, Bhakti, Bullah Ki Jaana, Coke Studio, contemporary fusion music, divine, drums, EDM, emotions, Farid Ayaz, gharana, hindu, Hindustani Classical music, Indian Ocean, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamicate, Junoon, kafi, Kailash Kher, Kashmiri classical maestro, love, Music, Mystical, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistan, partition, Parvaaz, poet, pop, Qawwali, Rabbi Shergill, Rang, Religion Unplugged, rock, Rumi, saints, semi-folk, semi-Sufi, shrines, silisilas, social order, Sonam Kalra, Spirituality, sufi, Sufi Gospel Project, Sufi-rock, Sufiana, Sufism, The Local Train, the voice of faith, TheWire, tombs, trance, Ustad Mohammad Yaqoob Sheikh, Vaishnav temples, waqfs, Yatra

Music lover or not, Sufi is one form we can’t shy away from. Find out more about this age-old form of music and how it is reviving a spiritual tradition in the modern world.

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Culture History

Protest Art and Indian Freedom Struggle

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Debopriya Bhattacharya 1 Comment 1905, 1907, 1938, Aarti Khare, Abanindranath Tagore, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spits Tin, arts, Aurobindo Ghose, Banga Mata, Beauty is in the Street, Bengal, Bengal School of Art, Bharatmata, British Raj, dissent, Dr. Michael Shank, Father of Modern Indian Art, Guernica, Haripura Posters, Ideology of Swadeshi Art, india, Jamini Roy, John Heartfield, Kalighat, Lord Curzon, mother, Nandalal Bose, nationalism, Pahari, partition, Picasso, political and social issues, Protest art, Rajasthani, Redefining the Movement: Art Activism, social movements, Swadeshi Movement, Swaraj, The Shehnai Players, Viceroy of India, Western literature

Art isn’t always about peace. Sometimes, it’s about the struggle to find peace. This article talks about the art that was not just co-terminus with the Indian freedom struggle but also aided the same.

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Culture History

The Gendered Silencing of the Partition 1947

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 Editor 0 Comments 1947, abduction, colonialism, Crime, families, hindu, honour, humanity, independence, india-pak partition, kafila, Mahatma Gandhi, muslim, partition, rape, Society, thoa khalsa, women survivors of partition

The unheard narratives of women, the ones who bore the most gruesome brunt of the India-Pakistan partition.

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A BEAUTIFUL LEGACY IN MAKING

July 16, 2018August 24, 2018 Editor 0 Comments child marriage, female authors, female identity, female novelist, feminism in literature, Hindi literature, Hindi novels, independence, Krishna sobti, literature, novels on partition., partition, partition literature, sexuality, social issues, zindaginama

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares “Ghalib sareer-e-khaama nava-e-sarosh hai (Ghalib, the sound of the pen scratching paper is the singing of angels)” The

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