IFA@Lucknow: Lucknow Literary Festival | Yousuf Saeed & Epsita Haldar | February 13 & 14, 2015
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Presentations by two of our grantees, At the third edition of the Friday | February 13, 2015 | 04:45 PM Saturday | February 14, 2015 | 05:15 PM |
Yousuf Saeed, a Delhi-based filmmaker, an author and archivist, talks about his project, Tasveer-e-Urdu. It examines the historical and socio-political relevance of printed images from popular Urdu literature produced in the first half of the 20th century, and the stories they reveal of Urdu's transformation from a language, reflecting the cultural plurality of North India, to one associated with Islam.
Epsita Halder, a professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata will present glimpses of Muharram from West Bengal through a presentation on her study of the varied renderings of the narrative of the Karbala Battle as recounted by Shia Muslims across different districts of West Bengal during the holy month of Muharram. She is also a prolific poet in Bangla, and a novelist and a columnist for the Ananda Bazar Patrika.
Epsita's presentation at the Lucknow Literary Festival is supported by South Asia Women's Fund (SAWF).
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Yousuf Saeed and Epsita Halder received grants from IFA under its Arts Research and Documentation programme.