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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

2 years

I have slowly worked on translating Mirza Ghalib's Persian masnavi on Banaras over the pandemic years. Banaras has been at the heart of India's sacred geography for long and continues to evoke different emotions in recent times. +

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

My author copies arrived yesterday. You can preorder your copy now with a discount on Amazon to receive it later this month.Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan #ghalib #banaras #translation

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Urdu ka janaza zara dhum se nikle. Have you ever seen left to right #Urdu ? @taapsee n @VikrantMassey starrer #HaseenDilruba makes it possible. @MahtabNama @iamrana @RizwanAhmad1 @ranjithoskote

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

#RahatIndori ’s laughter resonated for the last many decades from the lecterns of Indian mushairahs. He spoke truth about and to power. My obituary for @rahatindori in @thewire_in @MahtabNama @iamrana #urdupoetry #Urdu

Rahat Indori's Ghazals and Style Spoke to the People and For Them

Highbrow poets and critics were disdainful, but the enfant terrible of Urdu poetry did not care.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

It's 2 years since the release of my translation of Fikr Taunsvi's poignant Partition memoir from @speakingtiger14 . It's been well-reviewed and excerpts are prescribed reading at the University of Delhi. Make it your August read. Happy Independence Day India and Pakistan.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

Indian Muslims hv shown the clergy ds nt run them. The men at Jama Masjid chose Dalit leader Azad over the so-called Shahi Imam. Watch the women of Deoband tell the clerics to go back. I got goosebumps watching this #CAA_NRC_NPR #CAA #NRC #CAA_NRC_Protests

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

My small obeisance to the great Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature on ⁦ @scroll_in ⁩

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature

The scholar, poet, novelist and translator, who wrote in Urdu and English, died on December 25, 2020 at the age of 85.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Eid mubarak. Saw this full rainbow over Sonipat today. Hope there is a pot of good tidings and cheer at its end.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

There is Aryan Khan who was caught on a cruise ship where small quantities of drugs were seized, and then there are those accused in the 3000kg haul of heroin at the Adani Port: Machavaram Sudhakaran,Durga P V Govindaraju and Rajkumar P. Has your news outlet told you about them?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Just lost yet another family friend. I try not bleed in public usually. But it is a deluge. We are all drowning.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 months

London folks, I will be speaking at SOAS University of London on 6 June on the role of translation in Urdu language and literature. Please come if this interests.

Urdu hai jis ka naam: A genealogy of Urdu language and literature through translation

Join us for a talk by Dr Bilal on how translation has profoundly shaped Urdu language and literature.

www.soas.ac.uk

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Prof Hany Babu is a generous teacher and a brilliant intellectual, who has only sought to inculcate progressivism. Even more voices need to speak up for him. #ReleaseHanyBabu

From Setting the Syllabus to Doing Ground Work, Hany Babu Has Been Devoted to Social Change

Fellow academics describe the professor as someone committed to lifting the downtrodden and one who considers the law his ally, not adversary.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Bahadur Shah #Zafar , the poet king, was born on 24 October. Here’s some of his #Urdu #poetry in my #translation .

Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king

On his 154th death anniversary, these three translations of Zafar’s Urdu ghazals reflect his awareness of a lack of power in the matters of state.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

"Hard and soft are so close, that it would be hard to distinguish liquid and solid, marble and water. Which one is running?" --verses from the lion fountain, Nasrid palaces, Alhambra Picture of Safdarjung Tomb۔

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Even b4 the construction work began for the central vista,this regime’s aversion to open spaces was clear.They fenced the India Gate lawns,n concretised much in d name of a national war monument. Denying access to heterogeneous collectives to come together,for protest or leisure.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Wrote this poem originally for the Keriya Mosque. But it seemed relevant today for Al-Aqsa. #AlAqsaUnderAtrack

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

India has very few #partition memorials. This is one right outside the recently police-stormed #DrZakirHusainLibrary at #jamiamilliaislamia #jamia . It gives the former president’s speech from 1946 urging #peace .

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

@alkalamba at #jamamasjid #againstNRC #againstCAA

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

#Urdu bazar haul from today.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

In an increasingly narrow world where the expectation seems to be on a person to speak only of their identity, will fiction die to be replaced by autobiography?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

#TempleLamp reprint out now for distribution. Go pick up your copy from a bookstore near you. #ghalib #translation

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

I remain thankful to the Raza foundation for the rights to this wonderful image of Banaras by the late S. H. Raza,and to @GulzarPoetry , @ranjithoskote , Mr Ashok Vajpeyi,Prof. Frances Pritchett, @FarooqiMehr ,Dr. Prashant Keshavmurthy for their blurbs. #Banaras #Ghalib #translation

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

6 months

Honoured to be trusted with his award-winning novel Allah Miyan ka Karkhana by Mohsin Khan Saab for its English translation. Thanks to @kan_writersside our agent who helped us find the right editor. Looking forward to work with Rahul Soni at @HarperCollinsIN .

Kanishka Gupta

@kan_writersside

6 months

I am thrilled to be representing the English translation of Mohsin Khan's Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman winning novel Allah Miyaan Ka Kaarkhaana. With Maaz Bin Bilal @Maazme

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Very happy to share a rather insightful review of Ghazalnama and The Sixth River from @WasafiriMag . Please read. @speakingtiger14 @arpitayodapress @ranjithoskote @iamrana @AanchalMalhotra @MakingLitTravel

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

@s_vishaal @hussainhaidry What is this matter nahi karte nonsense? Kal aake gale kaat denge yahi log! If you care do something more productive than saying matter nahi karte.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Replugging my translation of #Manto ’s Goli. 11 May is his birthday. @MantoSpeaks_ @iamrana @MahtabNama @scroll_in

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

10 months

This is tomorrow. All welcome.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

The inimitable #Cavafy

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

From my first poetry days:

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

My family history and statement against the NRC. #boycottNRC #againstCAB #againstCAA #againstNRC #NRC #CAA_NRC_Protest #IndiaAgainstCAA_NRC #IndiaAgainstViolence #CAA_NRC_Protests

I’m an Indian Muslim and refuse to be certified as a citizen by this RSS-backed government

Like my forefathers protested against the British, this is my act of civil disobedience against a draconian law.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Look out for the eyebrow jihad of this dude at the end!

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

I was at #DelhiGate till 4 pm. The protest was entirely peaceful. Around this time I saw police movement and formations. I sensed something was up and left the protest site. #AgainstNRC #JamaMasjid #againstCAA #CAA_NRC_Protests #NRC_CAA

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

My review of @Mahmudabad 's valuable book on the #Urdu #Mushairah , #Poetry of Belonging, is out now from Biblio. Read.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

In an older war by #Israel against #Palestine I had written this #poem for #Gaza . There were videos of Israelis celebrating the children’s deaths then as they are now. Replugging it tonight. #ghazal #poetry

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

I believe Ghalib's poetic view from the 19th-century of the city of lights might help us understand our present better, and also bring forth the Indo-Persian Ghalib better. The book is finally available for pre-order on Amazon and elsewhere. Here's the cover. +

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

@indscribe How do you find the resources to not get angry or hurt? I feel most betrayed by childhood friends adopting soft or hard hindutva. Nothing else feels as bad.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

1 year

I have translated a story by the brilliant S M Ashraf that has featured in the current issue of TBLM in the great company of Geetanjali Shree, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Gautam Bhatia and others. Read this splendid issue.

Tanuj Solanki

@tanujsolanki

1 year

Fiction by #GeetanjaliShree tr. Prachi Sharma, SM Ashraf tr. Maaz Bin Bilal, Bikram Sharma, Jerry Pyrtuh, and more... Essays by Arundhati Subramaniam and Gautam Bhatia Poems by Onyekachi Iloh, Nadia Arioli, and more... Issue 54 of TBLM is here!

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Great piece by @_sabanaqvi

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Who knows this better than Indians playing catch on Cowin?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

A few words on my #translation of #Ghalib 's Temple Lamp, his masnavi on #Banaras , by the polyglot translator, poet, arts curator and critic, the most wonderful @ranjithoskote . #Persian #indopersian

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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My conversation with Dr @RakhshandaJalil on her latest book and sundry things: The contrarian Urdu poet | Literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil on her new book, ‘Love in the Time of Hate’ -

The contrarian Urdu poet | Literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil on her new book, ‘Love in the Time...

Rakhshanda Jalil's latest book explores Urdu poetry's role in promoting love and unity in a changing India.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

I'm so proud that Yoda Press published my first book. It had poems that magazine editors had praised but declined for their politics. @arpitayodapress took them all on. Here's Yoda's statement on why they have (perfectly valid) reservations in standing beside one of their authors.

Arpita Das (she/her)

@arpitayodapress

3 years

The Yoda Press Team’s Statement on The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir @readingisha @suraahi_ @jayantea_

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

I had never thought #poetry could make it to a fiction top ten list. But #Ghalib is such a big draw for Indians that anything is possible. Here in @theasianage . #TempleLamp With @penguinindia @kan_writersside

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 months

In case any of you r in Birmingham or nearabouts this weekend and have a taste for minority languages, here's a small literature festival that might interest you with an impressive lineup of authors and speakers. I am speaking on a panel n reading poetry.

JAAG: Panjabi & Pahari-Pothwari Language and Literature Festival 2024

The first Panjabi & Pahari-Pothwari Language and Literature Festival in the world is making a return this summer!

www.eventbrite.com

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Poem for #VaravaraRao by the Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock, with Irish and English versions: @walesliterature @worldlittoday @BuchlerAlex @ranjithoskote

POEM: LETTER TO INDIA

By Gabriel Rosenstock India! Does the goddess Saraswati smile When you imprison your poets When, Covid-stricken, they hallucinate Sitting in a puddle of urine?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

This is Javed, an autodriver. Has Narendra, the PM, visited a hospital yet?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan

www.amazon.in

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

The revolutions never televised.

Anumeha

@anumayhem

4 years

Chhechhari valley Jharkhand’s Adivasis’ struggle against the army’s notification of setting up a firing range set to displace the people of 245 villages. Read more about it in Jan Sangarsh patrika

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Congratulations @YashicaDutt on the #SahityaYuvaPuraskar . Happy to be on the shortlist among friends. @AanchalMalhotra @sahityaakademi

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@Maazme

3 years

Such sportsmanship and grace.

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@Maazme

3 years

‘Take a Last Look at Lakshadweep’, article by a former administrator of the archipelago, Jagdish Sagar.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

@aishaismad @aliza_sukhera Also, Pakistan blocks out all Chinese atrocities against the Uyghurs. And continues to work with China. I don’t see the point of this holier than thou stance.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

Basking in the light of #Ghalib 's Chiragh-e-Dair, my Temple Lamp. @PenguinIndia #translation #poetry

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Is this an apartment or Plato’s Republic?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Weep, my city, my country.

Prashant Bhushan

@pbhushan1

3 years

This is what they are doing to the beautiful area between India Gate & Central Secretariat! Cutting >4000 heritage trees over 100 years old! To pave the way for a megalomaniac Sultan's new residence in a 13,500 Cr project, given emergency nod amidst a raging pandemic!

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Congratulations @anniezaidi ! Here’s my review of her wonderful novel, now shortlisted for the JCB prize.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

In other news @MdShami11 just bowled a wicket maiden. In a T20 (WC) match. Just felt like saying.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

A case for keeping the Persian script of Urdu, by @shahzamanhaque : @Ahmed1Hilal @MahtabNama @iamrana @ranjithoskote

Why the Perso-Arabic Script Remains Crucial for Urdu

A script is the shield of any written language. Erasing a script, or migrating from one script to another, is the first step in destroying the essence of a language.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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There are also Indian Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Dalits who have various hurts from the past and the present including those of Partition migrations. They can't even keep their horrific rememberings of horror secular. And this is the lead 'intellectual'.

Swapan Dasgupta

@swapan55

3 years

Secularist attacks on #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay points to a project to rewrite India’s history to remove all traces of Hindu hurt. Despite this attempted re-education, popular memory is a corrective. Now also have a PM who knows that remembering is part of robust nationhood

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The popular cultural historian and translator @iamrana reviews Temple Lamp in light of her own family connections to the royal house of #Banaras . Read. #Ghalib

‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage

Originally titled ‘Chirag-e-Dair’, this long poem written by Mirza Ghalib has been translated from the Persian into English in its entirety for the first time.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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@surekhapillai I still have no hope. Bhakts are getting ramrajya.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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Eid mubarak!

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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A short story I wrote some years back on old Delhi folks. Our now from @scroll_in under the caring editorship of @arunava

‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal

A story featuring ‘a Dilli-wallah to the core, claiming an ancestry of four hundred years in the city’.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

PhD fellowships at @JindalGlobalUNI for Afghan students.

Anuj Bhuwania

@anujbhuwania

3 years

@JindalGlobalUNI announces fellowships for PhD students from Afghanistan. Provides for tuition fees, accommodation, monthly stipend and health insurance.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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This episode of @PuraniDilliWali 's Urdunama focussed on poetry and possibility. I discussed some Emily Dickinson and ended up translating into Urdu for the first time.Speaking publicly in Urdu is also relatively new for me. Please listen, and be kind.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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For World Poetry Day, I wrote on the form, history, politics, and provenance of the ghazal—the local and the global, for @Ink_BL . Read. #ghazal #UrduPoetry #Urdu #poetry #WorldPoetryDay

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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Just discovered through #Ghalib via @FarooqiMehr that ‘Munshi’ is originally an #Arabic word. Wonder if #Premchand knew that.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

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Biblio asked me to select my favourite book of this year. I wrote on Farah Bashir's Rumours of Spring.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Oh, these Israelis after my heart! May the spirit of Muhammad Ali, the greatest, be with them.

Abier

@abierkhatib

3 years

Shahar Perets (19) and Eran Aviv (19) arrived again at the Israeli military enlistment center to declare their refusal to serve as soldiers and take part in the oppression of the Palestinians. Good on these kids. More moral fortitude than most. #Israel

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@Maazme

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This summer’s view from the study.

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@Maazme

3 years

Here's something I wrote after the "Jashn-e-Riwaaz" controversy: (Headline not mine!) #Urdu

Till the late 19th century, people were hardly aware of Urdu and Hindi as being two distinct...

Even till the late 19th century, Hindi and Urdu were one language, differentiated only by their scripts

www.thehindu.com

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Rereading SRF's essay on the history of early Urdu literary culture to teach it today, and yet again stunned by the erudition and multiple felicities of this brilliant man. Sharing my homage to the doyen.

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature

The scholar, poet, novelist and translator, who wrote in Urdu and English, died on December 25, 2020 at the age of 85.

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@Maazme

4 years

@_YogendraYadav Equating the Jamaat to RSS is worse than what you said earlier. You should have quit while you were behind. What Good Muslim, Bad Muslim polarity is this that you speak in @_YogendraYadav ?

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@Maazme

3 years

Here's some Sahir Ludhianvi on Gandhi and Ghalib. Happy Gandhi Jayanti.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

This is what we need. Now. (The ancient Jew has given me my mantra for these times: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Myself Me I Am.” —Rabbi Hillel.) #CAA #CAA_NRC_NPR

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

@atti_cus @aditya_mani_jha I didn't follow the earlier dialogue, but I wish everyone had this grace to apologize without qualifications.

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@Maazme

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@iamrana Heidelberg

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

In my Introducing Urdu: History, Politics, Poetics course, students read Urdu poetry in roman, along with their English translations. Of course for most of them Hindi is a first or second/third language.

Mehr Farooqi

@FarooqiMehr

3 years

I am teaching an upper level seminar on Urdu poetry: Ongoing Mahfil. The interesting thing is that my four precious students are reading the ghazals in the Hindi script.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

The peaceful protests by Indian Muslims against #CAA_NRC_NPR #CAA #NCR #againstCAA that are going unnoticed. Report by ⁦ @MahtabNama ⁩ of ⁦ @thewire_in ⁩

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@Maazme

4 years

I shudder to think how farmers on Delhi’s border must be faring since last night with these lashing rains. Those in power and claimants to dharma know no karuna, an essential requirement of dharma.

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@Maazme

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@Khanoisseur @mehreenzahra Boebert is a high school dropout, and a teenage mom. Osama went to university and read economics, pub ad, possibly engineering, and also english at oxford.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

Dear Harsh, I know you mean well; but Muslims from Malerkotla are also Punjabi and possibly farmers.

Harsh Mander

@harsh_mander

4 years

Farmers from Punjab came to Shaheen Bagh to establish a langar in solidarity with their sisters protesting CAA/NRC. Now Muslim youth from Malerkotla serve food in solidarity with protesting farmers of Punjab. With these bonds of love that bind us, India is safe @karwanemohabbat

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@Maazme

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We need #azadiforazad #AzadiForAzad now!

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@Maazme

5 years

My poem, "The Mosque," is just out from @epw_in .

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

2 years

This is today at IIC annexe. Come join us for an evening of #Urdu and #IndoPersian poetry on the cities of #Delhi #Kolkatta #Lucknow and #Banaras .We will also release #TempleLamp my translation of Ghalib's masnavi #ChiragheDair on #Kashi .

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Has @NatGeo lost it completely?

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

A truly searing and stunning piece from a working class position about language hegemony and grammar, under conflict.

The English Education of a Kashmiri

"In a conflict-ridden space like Kashmir, can working-class people express and understand the world in a language that is not their own, while simultaneously aspiring to be upwardly mobile? Is that...

www.theindiaforum.in

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

1 year

Happy to see Temple Lamp favourably reviewed in The Book Review, and getting noticed even a year after its publication. Honoured and humbled to read that Prof. Baran Farooqi praises my translation over the great scholar Zoe Ansari's Urdu rendering. #Ghalib #Banaras

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

6 months

This lovely, detailed review of Temple Lamp by @mohdfar123 out from the Bangladesh newspaper @dailystarnews today. Read.

‘Temple Lamp’: A view of Ghalib’s rich cultural Persian inheritance

A review of ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’ (India Penguin Classics, 2023) by Mirza Ghalib, translated by Maaz Bin Bilal

www.thedailystar.net

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

I just counted, and can’t believe that I have identified 46+ species of #birds in my society itself since I began #birding seriously in the lockdown. Nature is lush if we only look around (and give it some space to breathe).

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@Maazme

3 years

Observe the disgusting glee with which young girls and boys speak of killing Arabs here.

রাজ শেখর

@DiscourseDancer

3 years

Wow this is terrifying

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

"Saheb tere Ram Raj mein shav-vahini Ganga"

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@Maazme

2 months

This #IndependenceDay The Sixth River, my translation with intro. of the poet-Satirist Fikr Taunsvi’s (Ram Lal Bhatia) diary from his struggles in Lahore during the days of #Partition , is out in a new paperback avatar from Speaking Tiger. Buy, read, gift. #HappyIndependenceDay

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

गज्जब पॉज़िटिविटी है भक्तों में। कोरोना “को भी जीने का अधिकार है।”

Ranvijay Singh

@ranvijaylive

3 years

मार्केट में नया ज्ञान आया है

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

I recently read Samarkand by Amin Malouf, which brings Omar Khayyam alive most vividly.

Shirzan

@shiirzann

3 years

Today is the birthday of Omar Khayyam, Persian polymath, astronomer, mathematician, poet, philosopher, physician and writer

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

1 year

My translation #Ghalib 's Temple Lamp now reviewed in @BookReviewsAsia by @davidchaffetz .

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

5 years

These times are throwing up new heroes everyday. Here is Vimal Chapadiya exemplifying the duties of friends and neighbours. #Indiaunited #StandUnited #AgainstCAA #AgainstNRC

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

3 years

Following on my review of the Shahid biography which has led to some discussions on the ghazal, I'm taking the liberty to share my own #ghazal on ghazals. Read.

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Maaz bin Bilal معاذ بن بلال माज़ बिन बिलाल

@Maazme

4 years

I am reading my #poetry from #Ghazalnama tomorrow, and possibly the new #translation from #Ghalib ’s Chirag-i-Dair, forthcoming from @PenguinIndia . Join me online. Register here for free:

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