Momin Khan Momin: An Unfinished Portrait m.thewire.in/article/cultur…

If you are in Hyderabad instagram.com/p/C91gHHWolMY/…

A pathbreaking work

Received this splendid divan of Momin from a good friend. It comes with a commentary. I have been incredibly fortunate in receiving important materials that facilitate my research.

Hindi word Swaad (स्वाद), meaning taste, flavour From Sanskrit Svādu (स्वादु), meaning sweet Shares the same Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root, Swād-, meaning sweet As the English word Sweet etymonline.com/search?q=Sweet via Alexander Jabbari, Iskandar Ding

It was a time when numerous literati glittered on Delhi’s firmament: COLUMN: WHY AZAD OVERLOOKED MOMIN dawn.com/news/1850030

I will be talking about my two Ghalib books. Hope to see my friends in DC on Sept 7.

Looking forward to Toronto in November

Night blooming lotuses! A captivating sight. #flowers

Khusraw had three divans in Farsi but Masud Sa'd Salman had one is Arabic, one in Farsi and one in Hindavi. "Before me, none of the emperors of eloquent speech possessed three divans. Mas‘ud Sa‘d Salman does have three, but they are in three different languages." Amir Khusraw

Comments of Irrfan Khan the actor on Shams ur Rahman Farooqi’s Novel, kai chaand thay sar e asman. Dying at ایک آدمی سا ایکٹر 😭 Hor vi neevan ho bandeya

When in doubt, go to farooqui. Mehr Farooqi

I am entering the portal of US citizenship after having lived and worked here for twenty-five years

This beautiful, stunning piece arrived in the mail today. Deeply obliged. muzaffar husain

August reading. Three books by beautiful minds. Mehr Farooqi সোহিনী 🌻 | ஸோஹினி | Sohini Aditya Sondhi, PhD Enjoyed reading you.

Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, mentions that there are 7,164 languages that are among the living (thousands are dead). 700 of them have speakers in New York.

Khilna kam kam kali ne sikhaa hai Uski ankhon ki neem khwabi se The bud has learned to open ever so slowly From her dreamy half closed eyes #Mir

You should get both books if you haven’t already! #Ghalib

"Translation, to me, is a political act in addition to everything else that it can be as a literary, aesthetic or academic practice. The Mir book is my way of bearing witness to South Asia’s multilingual and cultural diversity. It embodies my rejection of the falsehood that Urdu

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