Lectures and Performances

• Lectures and Performances

Frances Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, walks us through some key techniques for reading the notoriously difficult Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib. Pritchett teaches courses on Indian civilization, Urdu literature and Islam in South Asia. Pritchett’s publications include Nets of… Read More

• Lectures and Performances

Bollywood lyricist and script writer Ali Husain Mir guides us on a wonderful, interactive tour of the history of Urdu in Indian cinema. Mir, also a professor of Management at William Paterson University, is the author of Anthems of Resistance, the definitive book on the All India Progressive Writers’ Movement; he is also an acclaimed… Read More