Friends, I take great pleasure in inviting you to the next event in the monthly series: Why It Speaks to Me. Frances Pritchett, Professor Emeritus at Colombia University, talks of why Mir and Ghalib speak to her. Date: Thursday, 30 Jan Time: 6.00 pm Venue: The Attic, Regal Building, Connaught Place Please join us for Tea at 6.00 pm Monthly Monologue: Why it Speaks to Me? Hindustani Awaaz, in collaboration with The Attic, presents a monthly series of monologues: poetry, literature, short stories, plays, essays, nazms, ghazals. A series of eclectic speakers present/sing/recite their favourite Urdu text and explain why the text ‘speaks’ to them the way it does. Each month they tell us why -- from all they have read -- a particular text/verse/fragment/poet/writer speaks to them above all else. Fran Pritchett recently retired from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, thus becoming Professor Emeritus of Modern South Asian Languages. Her real claim to fame, however, is A Desertful of Roses, an online commentary on the whole divan of Ghalib. She is now also working on A Garden of Kashmir, an online commentary on an intikhab of Mir based on the work of S. R. Faruqi.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:15:54 +0000
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