Know Ghalib & Shamsur Rahman Faruqi from eyes of an Urdu Critic |

00:00 - #guftugu

00:48- Intro Video

03:13- Interview Begins

4:08- About Shamsurrahman Faruqi`s Shabkhoon, Earlier its name was Tesha, Nomenclature, Memories related to Shabkhoon`s planning

7:01- Reason behind nomenclature

8:17- A platform for newcomers, Anthology- Naye Naam, About Shabkhoon

10:23- Allahabad`s literary circle, People associated with Shabkhoon

12:17- Shamsurrahman Faruqi`s English Literature background, Had western influence initially but later returned towards Urdu Classical, Changed his positions, Md Hassan Askari, Comparison between Farooqi and Askari

17:40- Mehr`s childhood, Shamsurrahman Faruqi`s fatherhood, taught her classical literature, Both sisters, Nayyar Masood, Shahryaar, Literature became a part of her life, Mehr was rebellious in beginning, Wanted to live a normal life, Her books on Askari and Ghalib, Found her own perspective

24:51- Shamsurrahman`s clip

25:06- Farooqi`s book Urdu ka ibtedaai zamaana, Hind Islami Tehzeeb, Farooqi`s fiction, Kai Chand the sar e aasmaan, His stories- Sawaar, In sohbaton mein aakhir, His work on Daastaan

30:10- Farooqi`s narrative, Farooqi`s conversations, He said- More you write more things would get clearer,Recites Ghalib`s sher and explains

32:56- Farooqi`s clip

33:51- Ghalib`s unpublished poems, Ghalib`s Persian poems, Mehr Afshaan`s research on books on these, Ghalib understood the value of print, Ghalib wanted to make his mark as an International poet by writing in Persian

41:07- Ghalib`s Nuskha e hameediya, The story of it being lost and then its re-discovery, First edition of Ghalib`s Deewaan surviving in Jamia Milia`s Library, The process of printing in those times

47:41- Mehr Afshaan`s Department of Asian Culture and Literature at Virginia University, Students there and their passion, The environment of learning there, Translation works, Professors there

53:18- The rise of Urdu speaking populace, Her views on it, Future of the language is good, Should embrace technology, Urdu Wikipedia is not so developed unlike other languages, Mehr Afshaan working on Wikipedia project

59:14- Indian universities do not have much freedom, There is too much bureaucracy, There is no quality check, These are unlike western universities

1:02:29 – Her message to people, Embrace your mother tongue

Anchor-Producer : Syed Mohd Irfan
Sponsor : Bank Of Baroda

#ghalib #ghalibshayari #mirzaghalib #urdu #urdupoetry #shayari #jashnerekhta