Lucknow in Celluloid ReverieArticle
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While Lucknow is often associated with nawabs, kebabs and chikankari, the city’s identity runs much deeper for Lucknowis. It is essentially the city of poets, artists, karigars (artisans) and qadrdaans (connoisseurs) of literature, art and craftmanship. The crafts of mukaish and zardozi are as…
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Lucknow’s blend of Nawabi grandeur and Awadhi elegance, its stunning monuments and bustling bazaars have long fascinated Indian cinema, continuing to inspire filmmakers today. Who would not remember watching Meena Kumari in Pakeezah (1972) and Rekha in Umrao Jaan (1981) performing the marvellous…
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What are today called 'B-towns' or Tier-2 cities have the potential to become culture-towns, if they don't lose their way building malls and flyovers. As part of the series ‘Reading a City’, we explore how Abdul Halim Sharar gave readers a sense of the culture of Lucknow, along with its short…
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The past is in many ways a foreign country, and to walk through towns of the past slowly is an invigorating exercise. And there are those who can read them, see how they had grown. Some, such as Syed Ahmed Khan and Patrick Geddes, can use words vividly to conjure up other people in another time…
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As a part of the collaboration between Sahapedia and the Rupayan Sansthan, Jodhpur, William Dalrymple delivered a talk titled 'Scent and Sensuality in India' at Arna Jharna: The Desert Museum in December 2017. In this talk, Dalrymple examines how pre-modern South Asia had one of the most refined…
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Abbas on Films and Film-writing
Ravikant (historian, writer and translator)
The polyglot Abbas was as incredibly prolific in his nearly half-century long filmmaking career as he was in his literary and journalistic avatars. He was also successful in carving out a niche for himself by…
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