रसचक्र Raschakra

 

 

 

  اہم خبریں لائیو القادر ٹرسٹ کیس: عمران خان نیب کے سامنے پیش، بشریٰ بی بی کی عبوری ضمانت منظور پاکستان میں فوجی اسٹیبلشمنٹ سے محاذ آرائی کیسے سیاسی رہنماؤں کی اقتدار سے بے دخلی کا باعث بنتی رہی 7 گھنٹے قبل انڈیا میں ریسلرز کا احتجاج: ’ہم سب اپنی بہترین فارم میں ہیں اور اپنے عروج پر نہ کھیلنا ہمیں اندر سے مار دے گا‘ 40 منٹ قبل   http://www.bbc.com/urdu/ regional/2016/06/160620_india_ muslim_women_100_years_ago_mb

Few texts got a dusting when four women staged dramatised reading of 100-year-old women's risalas (magazines) in Urdu, at India International Centre, New Delhi. The readings of Hum Khawatein (We, the women) removed the dust of bias and ignorance from the now marginalised voices — of Urdu and Muslim women — and their writings on issues ranging from political, social and international relations to fashion and tradition. These voices sounded participative — neither isolated nor ghettoised — shattering the stereotypes constructed around the post-independence Muslim women; burqa-clad, obedient, religious hypocrites, controlled by the diktat of the Shariya and Hadith.  When self-appointed guardians of Indian culture are daring to threaten the use of Urdu script in street art — right in the national capital — such events acquire greater significance. Reintroducing the progressive nature of the century-old writings; the event opened a fresh perspective on why liberal voices of Muslim women...

सौजन्य : बीबीसी  पाठ - श्वेता त्रिपाठी  दिल्ली, 2016  रसचक्र की प्रस्तुति 'हम खवातीन' का अंश   

Team ki masti aur performance ki tayyari

http://www.hindustantimes.com/ books/old-world-charm-the- many-phases-of-indian-women-s- magazines-in-urdu/story- I3enWxhhS2H9j7SclbqZvJ.html It‘s 3 pm on a scorching afternoon in the Sambhali Gate area of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. The lanes in this densely populated pocket of the city are silent except for a scrap dealer doing the rounds with his cycle cart. Sitting on the floor of the entrance corridor of her house, Arshi Hashmi, 42, is reading Khatoon Mashriq, one of the oldest surviving Urdu magazines for women. Creases appear on Hashmi’s forehead as she hears the whistle of a pressure cooker. She rushes to the kitchen. “It is an addiction. Once you are hooked to it, you are in for your lifetime,” says Hashmi, on her 20-year association with the magazine. In an age of daily soaps and shrinking reading habits, a subculture of Urdu periodicals exists in Muslim households in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Hyderabad, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Odisha. Hashmi’s generation has g...

http://www.amarujala.com/india-news/muslim-women-say-hum-khawateen जरा सोचिए करीब सौ साल पहले मुसलमान औरतें उर्दू में क्या लिखती थीं? क्या कहना चाहती थीं? आज के दौर में जब मुसलमान औरतों का जिक्र बुर्का, तीन तलाक, इस्लामी फतवों या यूनीफॉर्म सिविल कोड के संदर्भ में ही होता है, आपको जानकर हैरानी होगी कि बीसवीं सदी की शुरुआत में वो इसके इतर कितनी बातें कह रही थीं। हाल ही में एक नाटक 'हम खवातीन' ने उस दौर के कुछ लेखों को चुनकर दिल्ली में पेश किया। इस नाटक ने एक झलक दी बीसवीं सदी की शुरुआत में मुसलमान औरतों की जिंदगी की। ये वो दौर था जब मुसलमान लड़कियों ने स्कूल जाना बस शुरू ही किया था। इससे पहले घर में इस्लामी पढ़ाई तक सीमित लड़कियों को अब बाहर जाकर पढ़ने की इजाजत दी जाने लगी थी। बीसवीं सदी की शुरुआत में आ रहे इस अहम बदलाव पर हो रही बहस की नब्ज पकड़ी जफर जहां बेगम ने अपने लेख, 'स्कूल की लड़कियां' में। इसमें स्कूल जाने वाली लड़कियों की नीयत पर शक और उन्हें मिलने वाली शिक्षा के मकसद से जुड़ी शंकाओं पर सवाल उठाने की कोशिश की गई। ये लेख 1898 में शुरू हुए औरतों के पहल...

A new performance based on the writings of Muslim women from about a century ago has important implications for the Indian feminist movement today. On watching the performance of Eve Ensler’s  The Vagina Monologues , Gloria Steinem’s  initial reaction  was, “I already know this: it’s the journey of truth-telling we’ve been on for the past three decades”. My initial reaction on seeing the performative reading  Hum Khawateen  (We, Women) by a theatre group called Raschakra was in total contrast to Steinem’s response. I asked myself, “Why did I not know about this? How could such silence shroud the existence of these writings for over a century?” Hum Khawateen  is a reading of a selection of articles from Urdu women’s magazines published in India about a century ago. These magazines were serendipitously discovered by a team of researchers from the feminist group Nirantar who were working on issues related to Muslim women’s education. Nirantar ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/ cities/Delhi/womens-world/ article5256577.ece A few years ago, when a bilingual (Urdu and English) quarterly magazine  ‘Nisa’  was started by a small group of Muslim women from Hyderabad, it was seen as a ‘ray of hope’ and perhaps rightly so. For the most part, it was a pleasant surprise. The idea behind its initiation, as researcher and activist Kaneez Fatima, explained once to this writer, “is to examine women’s problems and create debate based on particular issues, and to draw the attention of women writers and research scholars to such questions.” Kaneez, who is also one of the founders and editors of the magazine, went on to say, “This was also needed because there was hardly any research magazine in Urdu that focused on women’s issues in particular. We strongly felt the need for one for quite some time, before we decided to fill this gap on our own.” In these observations on Urdu magazines, she couldn’t have been further from the tru...