Ektara video magazine, September 2024

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Ektara Newsletter
September 2024
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Greetings from Ektara, the online platform on shared history, heritage and arts. One of our aims is to promote peace and communal harmony in India and the world. Ektara magazine has been running since January 2016. Your support will keep us floating.

In our September 2024 issue, we present the following features and videos:

1. Is Indian Cinema becoming a tool for political polarization?
Senior Hindi journalist Amitabh Srivastav talks to several experts on the subject of political propaganda in Hindi films.

2. Partition and Popular Art: A Conversation with Yousuf Saeed
Ankan Kazi talks to filmmaker and author Yousuf Saeed about his book 'Partitioning Bazaar Art', published by Seagull Books.

3. Mounts of the Gods: Textile Labels and Bazaar Prints
A new visual essay about the images of the vehicles of Hindu gods printed on old textile labels. From the collection and a book by Susan Meller.

4. Music in Colonial Punjab: A Book review
Radha Kapuria's book 'Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947 (OUP, 2023) by Yousuf Saeed, published in Sikh Research Journal, vol.9, No.1, 2024.

5. Featured video: Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Miyan Ki Malhar
A musical clip of Raga Miyan ki Malhar sung for Satyajit Ray's movie Jalsaghar (The Music Room) 1958. Watch the video here:

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