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"There is life and there is death, and there is beauty and melancholy in between."  - Albert Camus

He keeps my copy of The Magic Mountain for a month and one fine evening invites me for a cup of tea. This is my favorite part of the book. Settembrini’s discourses on life.  He starts reading a paragraph, ‘We’ve to honor and uphold the body when it’s a question of emancipation, of beauty, of freedom of thought, of joy, of desire. We must despise it in so far as it sets itself up as the principle of gravity and inertia, when it obstructs the movement toward light; we must despise it in so far as it represents the principle of disease and death, in so far as its specific  essence is the essence of perversity, of decay, sensuality and shame.’

I got a call. "Which route should I follow, the new highway or the old one? I'm taking Mom Dad to Patnitop. We're here. It's a beautiful hill station. It

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Arabic in Hindustan: Comparative Poetics in the Eighteenth Century and Azad Bilgrami’s The Coral Rosary

Abstract

This article examines the contributions of Ghulām ʿAlī “Āzād” Bilgrāmī (–) to our understanding of comparative poetics and Arabic in eighteenth-century Hindustan. It attends to Azad’s oeuvre through the lenses of translation, multilingualism, and literary science. Philological analysis reveals how Azad establishes analogues across these three literary languages that attest to the adaptive capacity of poetics. His sections on Hindi poetry in his Arabic work Subḥat al-marjān fī āthār Hindūstān (The Coral Rosary of Hindustan’s Traditions, –64), and its later adaptation into Persian Ghizlān al-Hind (The Gazelles of India, –65) anchor this study. The essay also establishes a Hindi inspiration for Azad’s Arabic poem Mir‘āt al-Jamāl (The spegel of Beauty, ). bygd probing the intertextualities within and beyond Azad’s corpus, this study demon

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This big budget hit, which won 7 Oscars, was banned in Arab countries, rejected by Dilip Kumar because…

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Dilip Kumar rejected a big-budget blockbuster, which went on to win seven Oscars.

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Updated : Mar 23, , AM IST | Edited by : Riya Sharma

Oscar-winning film that Dilip Kumar rejected

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Dilip Kumar, known as the Tragedy King of Bollywood, never failed to impress the audience with his performances. The actor once rejected a high-budget film just to focus on his career in Indian cinema and later that film won multiple Oscars. 

The film Dilip Kumar rejected, turned out to be a huge blockbuster of the 60s. Not only this, the movie though banned in Arab countries, went on to win 7 Oscars. It was none other than Lawrence of Arabia. 

Helmed by David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia is a biographical adventure film