Bollywood

Digging Deepa

EGO Columnist Rachel Astarte Piccione recently attended a screening of Water in New York. The screening was followed by an indepth Q&A session with the director Deepa Mehta, who explained her motivation, inspiration and the trials and tribulations of making the trilogy Earth, Fire and Water.

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Urdu & Hindi Poetry

Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat

Ayesha Khanna translates this famous Faiz poem immortalized by the beautiful Noor Jehan.

Rumor has it that Faiz never recited the poem after he heard Noor Jehan sing it, saying that he could never compete with her rendition of it.

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