04/6/2018Daag ke kuch khyaal, Aligarh wali kitaab se:Pehla khyaal -‘Aagey aati thi yaad bhi teri,Abb kabhi bhool kar nahi aati’ Dusra khyaal - 'Kisi ka mujhko na mohtaj rakh zamaane meinKami hai kaun si ya rabb tere khazaane mein’Iss raat parinda azaad ho chala…
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30/03/2018 Stood in the central hall of Maulana Azad Library of AMU taking a good look at this portrait of a man I had only heard of. There were many other men, present as portraits, who appeared as though urging one to see not just inward but gaze out - hard, strong and assertively, at … Continue reading
Aligarh’s cavalry14th Murray’s Jat Lancers was raised here. 120 sowars or cavalrymen made the cavalry regiment raised in Aligarh in 1857. These men and the horses were drawn from the region. I begin to imagine these cavalrymen on the roads of Aligarh today. The men, as sharp featured as now and horses of the finest … Continue reading
Contested Realities 