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Roundabout: Love beneath the gentle shade of the chameli
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON NOV 22, 2020 12:25 AM IST
Poet and anthologist Abhay K celebrates love with the unmistakable touch of the subcontinent in a new anthology of great Indian poems
Roundabout: Play the rabab, Mardania, November is here
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON NOV 07, 2020 11:49 PM IST
The forgotten value of Mardana in the world of Guru Nanak is being invoked by contemporary poets, painters, fiction writers and scholars in the true spirit of Sikhi
Roundabout: Pyaasa revisited on Sahir Ludhianvi’s death anniversary in his Centenary year
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times
PUBLISHED ON OCT 24, 2020 10:30 PM IST
This 1957 film was inspired by the poetry of Sahir and Guru Dutt wove around it the theme of social injustice and the poignant though unspoken love of the poet and the prostitute, which rises above the prejudices of the class-torn social order
Roundabout: Portrait of a village in Punjab before the sundown of Partition
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON OCT 10, 2020 09:26 PM IST
Chandigarh-based writer, psychologist and activist Ranjit Powar’s debut novel Dusk over the Mustard Fields captures the composite culture of undivided Punjab, which, however, is not without its class, caste, communal and gender inequities
Random Forays: The Social Dilemma is actually personal
By Vivek Atray | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON OCT 11, 2020 10:56 AM IST
The Popular Netflix film highlights the specific quandary that we the people face in today’s social media driven time capsule, but ultimately our lives are impacted by the choices we make
Roundabout: How the cookie crumbles yet again in Covid times
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON SEP 26, 2020 09:01 PM IST
City writer-academic Manju Jaidka co-edits a book of stories with Nilak Datta that touches upon people’s personal, psychological and political response to the pandemic
Roundabout: The endearing story of the lost girl named Love
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2020 10:57 PM IST
It is said that if a writer falls in love with you then you can never die. So it is with Anusuya Singh Estevez (1936- 2020) who became muse to the much-loved Punjabi poet, late Shiv Kumar Batalvi (1936-1973). Fond tributes pour in from relatives and friends on her passing away as the literary world remembers the lost love story
Roundabout: Unlocking the lockdown with stories
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2020 02:19 AM IST
Young author Gayatri Gill makes an electric debut with The Day Before Today, a collection of Lockdown stories in the times of Covid-19
Roundabout: ‘Our revels now are ended’
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON AUG 16, 2020 11:23 PM IST
Artistes recall Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq, which was staged in Delhi with the grand Purana Qila as a backdrop by Ebrahim Alkazi with his student Manohar Singh reliving the role in all its intensity
Roundabout: Memories and poetry brewed with tea and a little sugar
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON AUG 01, 2020 10:57 PM IST
Revisiting the past in times of social distancing one draws from the memories stored in the heart. Captured here are scenes from the life of poet Lal Singh Dil (April 1943- August 2007) and the tea shack he owned for some time in Samrala town
Roundabout: Playing the role of women in the life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JUL 18, 2020 11:12 PM IST
Two veteran actors of the stage and screen recall with joy the roles they played of the brave queens of the Sikh Raj and their resilience even in trying times
Roundabout: My Other Half – Telling tales of the storyteller from Sialkot
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JUL 04, 2020 11:07 PM IST
Urdu fiction writer Joginder Paul (1025-2016) gave a sensitive pen to Partition with memorable fiction such as Dera Baba Nanak and Sleepwalkers. His wife Krishna looks back at the man as she turns 90
ROUNDABOUT: Remembering Rama Sharma, a woman of substance
By Nirupama Dutt
UPDATED ON JUN 06, 2020 04:47 PM IST
The brave daughter of Partition was more concerned about breaking glass ceilings than fitting into glass slippers
Roundabout: Legend of Sahir Ludhianvi, lore of Pyaasa
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 28, 2018 08:59 AM IST
One grew up listening to the songs he penned, truly songs of hope: Yeh subha kabhi to aayegi (It will be morning again).
Roundabout: Broken words, bruised images
By Nirupama Dutt | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON APR 14, 2018 10:11 PM IST
A lone candle is lit on what could be a slice of cake. Or is it the edge of a stone; a stone which is used to kill a little girl?