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‘Angareywali’ Rashid Jahan: Urdu’s Angry Young Woman
Rashid Jahan ‘declared war’ on conservative Muslim society through an explosive anthology she co-authored, titled Angarey. It may have earned her death threats but Rashid became an inspiration for generations of women writers to come.
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Umrao Jaan Ada: The First Modern Indian Novel
The tragic tale of a Lucknow courtesan has been immortalised by the Hindi cinema, but was Umrao Jaan fact or fiction? Also, was its author a master of Urdu prose or just a cheap novelist? Here’s the story behind the first modern Indian novel...
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Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’: A Poet to Remember
The story of a national poet whose fiery compositions of rebellion and patriotism spoke to every Indian, uniting them across divides.
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The ‘Other’ Greek who Marched into India
Did you know that around 200 years after Alexander the Great’s death, a Greek army swept across North India to complete a task that he had left unfinished - the conquest of India! They took over the great cities of the time Saket (Ayodhya), Mathura, Ujjain and Pataliputra. Catch this little known story