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The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs ().
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Among the always bounteous offerings of the Vancouver International Film Festival, my favorite section is &#;Panorama,&#; since I enjoy seeing new films from countries all around the globe. Often some of these are from Iran, and the two Iranian films featured this year did not disappoint. The sole Indian film turned out to be an engaging, imaginative tale from an area of the world seldom represented on the screen.
There Is No Evil ()
Vancouver is in part a festival of festivals, drawing upon international films already premiered in Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, and other earlier festivals. Of necessity, this year&#;s items come from the pre-Coronavirus festivals, with films from Berlin especially prominent in the schedule. Mohammad Rasoulof&#;s There Is No Evil, Golden Bear winner as best film, continued the director&#;s regular contributions to past Vancouver festivals. (For entries on other Rasoulof fil
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Hindi Has Arrived!
Many writings about Hindi are &#;breast beating&#; in the style of Bharatendu Harishchandra&#;s &#;Bharat Durdasha&#;. This article has a positive attitude towards Hindi Literature. The history of literary Hindi is relatively brief, starting only around Modern literary Hindi has an even shorter history, beginning around with the death of Premchand. In this short period Hindi has covered some fantastisk ground and today&#;s Hindi literature ranks among the best literary traditions of the world.
This article attempts a bird&#;s eye view of this amazing journey. It fryst vatten addressed to non expert general reader.
What is Hindi?
When speaking of the language, the word ‘Hindi’ fryst vatten used in two senses. In the first case it refers to a group of around 30 languages in the Hindi-speaking region. Kishoridas Bajpai () refers to it as a &#;commonwealth&#; of languages and mentions three characteristics: 1. the use of &#;ka&#; pratyay (post position) &#; like ka, ki, ke,
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The Desert Frontier: A History of Travel and Nomadism
Photo by DHEERAJ PAUL
PHOTOS BY DHEERAJ PAUL AND DINESH KHANNA
‘. . . O, sweet [bird] Kurjan
You are like my sister
Lower your wings
And come close to me
Allow me to write my grievances on your wings
And my greetings on your beak.
Hasten, sweet bird
Go to my dear one.’
(excerpt from the folk song Kurjan, as translated in Kothari )
To the Sufi poet Khwaja Farid, the Cholistan desert—a part of the Thar/ Great Indian Desert—was no wasteland. He describes it as ‘a site of wildness and madness . . . the place of lovers . . . a place of joy and gladness’ (as quoted in Shackle ). For better or for worse, this desert landscape is the leitmotif in the rich traditions of folk tales and folk songs from the region.
Now divided between India and Pakistan, the Thar Desert was historically at the heart of the western frontier of South Asia. This western frontier region stretched from the doabs of Punjab, a patc