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Cineink
Musafir Ki Diary
Cine Ink's Podcast series 'Musafir Ki Diary' is based on a travelogue written in 1938 by India's renowned writer, journalist and film maker, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), who also won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for his screenplay, Neecha Nagar. Musafir Ki Diary, hailed as the first modern travelogue written in Urdu, almost forgotten and lost, has been rediscovered by Cineink. The diary is described as an important document of the times and upheavals of history before the 2nd world war. Abbas at the age of 24 set out on a journey that would take him to several...
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11-24 November, 1938- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas has reached Istanbul where Turks are mourning the death of the founder of modern Turkey, Kamal Ataturk. He visits Angora (Ankara), Halab (Aleppo), Baghdad, Karbala, Basra before returning to Hindostan. "Even water has a religion in Hindostan. The sounds of...
Published 10/21/21
Published 10/21/21
5 November, 1938- Novelist, journalist and filmmaker Khwaja Ahmad Abbas decides to return to India via land on a train from Paris. As the train enters Germany, a Nazi German Officer greets him with 'Hail Hitler'. Abbas shouts back 'Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai'. The Nazi officer is confused. Abbas...
Published 10/15/21
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