---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sabah <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:46 PM Subject: Invite: Hum Khawateen To: Javed Anand <[email protected]>, ram puniyani <[email protected] >
*Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, School of Media and Cultural Studies & Parcham * invite you to HUM KHAWATEEN A performance based on the writings of Muslim women published in Urdu magazines between 1905 and 1956 Photo Credit: Vinayak Srivastava​ *Directed by:* Vinod Kumar *Performed by:* Alka Ranjan, Purwa Bharadwaj, Rizwana Fatima and Shweta Tripathi *Venue: *Old Conference Hall, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai -400088 *Date and Time:* Monday, 1 Aug at 5:30 PM *About the Performance: * 'Hum Khawateen' is a reading of six excerpts from Kalame Niswan, an anthology of Muslim women's writings from Urdu magazines for women published from Delhi, Lahore and Aligarh between 1905 and 1956. Featuring political and social concerns of Muslim women at the time, these magazines highlighted and debated issues such as women's education, the Indian Independence movement, and gender relations, among others. They publicised radical positions on issues which remain contentious even today, like polygamy and the purdah. Copies of Kalame Niswan will be available for sale at the venue. Reviews of past performances of Hum Khawateen could accessed here <http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/womens-world/article5256577.ece> , here <http://thewire.in/39678/resurrecting-century-old-muslim-womens-voices-from-urdu-magazines/>, and here <http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/old-world-charm-the-many-phases-of-indian-women-s-magazines-in-urdu/story-I3enWxhhS2H9j7SclbqZvJ.html> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
