Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: November 13, 2019 8:41:40 am
A new dastangoi production recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
An MPhil in history from University of Delhi, Farooqui’s research focuses on the school history textbooks produced after Independence, where she attempted to study textbooks as devices of publicity, performative nationalism, and pedagogy.
Kis zaban se kah rahe ho aaj tum saudagaro, dahr mein insaniyat ke naamko uncha karo, jis ko sab kahte hain hitler bhediya hai bhediya,bhediye ko maar do goli pae-amn-o-baqa… Dastango Ainee Farooqui recites Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi’s East India Company ke Farzandon Se — his powerful response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre — to begin her dastan. She moves beyond historical facts and turns towards other giants in Urdu literature — Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, Allama Iqbal — to weave the haunting story in the history of Indian freedom struggle. Farooqui, along with Nusrat Ansari, will stage Dastan-e-Jallian in Delhi.
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