.... Popular postindependence Hindi-Urdu films such as Madhumati (1958), Sahib bibi aur ghulam (1962), Bahu begum (1967), Lal patthar (1971), Kudrat (1981), Bees Saal baad (1988), and Purani haveli (1989), among others, have endowed havelis with an affective life that creatively processes and reflects...

... who remain in perpetual transit) emerge as a collective of cinephiles, who are willfully entranced by the repetitious, rapturous songs—the seductive pleasures and utopian dreams—of Hindi popular cinema. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 cinema literature Hindi Urdu city romance...

... of the morning, there were other organizers who could operate in these situations. I feel that being a young woman sometimes created a protected space for organizing, as when the owner of one garage surmised from my Hindi/Urdu conversation...

... – 20 . Mir Ali Husain Mir Raza . 2006 . “Progressive Poetry and Film Lyrics.” In Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry . New Delhi : IndiaInk , 101 – 22 . Nandy Ashis . 1980 . “Introduction: Indian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of Politics...

... is a mountainous area that is within Azerbaijan. Nagorno means mountainous in Armenian probably, which is an Indo- European language, but Karabakh I can understand through my Urdu and Hindi. In Urdu and Hindi, it would be Kalabagh, that is to say...

... ranges across Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and English, all rendered in and inflected in the Telugu of heterogeneous communities. In their conception and use of language(s), Gaddar’s compositions move beyond linguisticity. For him the tune...

... that plays with the concepts of sharam (shame in Urdu) and izaat (honor in Urdu), or Scham (shame in German, also associated with blushing and the vulva). It refers to the Kantian categorical imperative that underscores the fundament...

... palimpsestic and fugitive; thus the daily inscriptions and washings away of Urdu script on takhts (boards) are both sensually palpable and as ephemeral as cigarettes. Writing “disappears,” she asserts, in books unwritten and un- read, such as her...