Urdu & Hindi Poetry

Ye Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai

Saqi Ki Har Nigah Pay Bal Kha K P Gaya
Lehroon Say Khailta Hoa Lehra K P Gaya
Dancing to every look of the wine-giver, I drank
Playing with the waves, I drank

Ayesha Khanna translates this classic Nusrat song!

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Bollywood

Rang De Basanti

You fall in love with the young, fun-filled “Rang De Basanti” as soon as the movie starts rolling. But it also confuses at some level, drawing demanding parallels between young people let down by the modern state, and revolutionaries fighting against a colonial state. Monica Mody reviews the highly anticipated new film with Aamir Khan.

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Bollywood

He Gives Me Fever

EGO Columnist Puloma Mukherjee remembers falling in love with Amitabh Bachchan, Mr. B, at the tender age of eight and the drama of meeting her hero a year later in Bombay. "We’d sing merrily in the marigold fields or pledge our love to each other under the shady bliss of a tree ... Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein."

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Art & Culture

Georgia Lee

Georgia Lee's visually stunning debut feature, “Red Doors,” won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Channel EGO's Creative Director Meera Menon sits down with dynamic and beautiful Lee to discuss the interplay of family history and identity, and the joys of filmmaking.

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Fiction

The Causes of Consequences

Estonian novelist Kaur Kender's writing is as provocative as his own life and personality – a former boxer, a semiotician, and an advertising star, he once said that he wished truck drivers and prostitutes would write more books because they have unusual stories to tell. Jurgen Kaljuvee translates Kender's best short stories.

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