रसचक्र Raschakra

29 अक्टूबर को हंस के साहित्योत्सव में हमारी नवीनतम प्रस्तुति अफ़ग़ानी दुख्तरान  

Publicity material for Hum Khawateen performance Presented by RASCHAKRA Direction - Vinod Kumar Performers - Alka Ranjan, Purwa Bharadwaj, Rizwana Fatima, Shweta Tripathi Organizer - Arthshila Date - 23.7.17 Time - 6.00 PM

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...

Hum Khawateen : A dramatic narration of writings of Muslim women published in different Urdu magazines, more than a hundred years ago Direction: Vinod Kumar Hum Khawateen : These voices of Muslim women, in Urdu, were first heard in colonial India, when neither Muslims nor Urdu felt inhibited or subdued, as they do now. In sync with their world, Muslim women celebrated, questioned, and critiqued all that happened around them. They were independent and intelligent women, but sometimes had to hide their identity to make their point. These days, Muslim women are typically made out to be a miserable lot, lacking in voice and in dire need of being rescued from their boorish husbands and fathers. Hum Khawateen is an attempt to dispel this misplaced perception, and to tell the world that many educated women, far from being ashamed of either their gender or Muslim identity, are, in fact, searching for their place in the world, like everyone else. There were several magazines...

                                                                     हम ख़वातीन                      सौ साल पहले के उर्दू रिसालों में प्रकाशित मुसलमान औरतों की आवाज़ों की प्रस्तुति                                                             निर्देशन: विनोद कुमार हम  ...

Artist : Baaraan Ijlal Compilation : Huma Khan Editor : Purwa Bharadwaj Publication : Nirantar, 2013