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zindagi-se-darte-ho · 10 months

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your smile heals all of my pain🤍

#desi tumblr #desi academia #desi #desi girl #desi aesthetic #desi culture #desi humor #desiblr #poetry tumblr #hindi shayari #urdu shayari #a suitable boy #lata kabir #trending #tv series #bbc

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hirlblog · 2 years

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I am here for free

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kkginfo · 2 years

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Hardik Pandya: 'We lost the World Cup because of Pandya'.. Ravi Shastri gave shocking comments.. Why? | KKG INFO

Hardik Pandya: ‘We lost the World Cup because of Pandya’.. Ravi Shastri gave shocking comments.. Why? | KKG INFO

Pandya’s two World Cup defeats were attributed to injuries. We had to pay a heavy price for that. Because Hardik Pandya: Former Indian coach Ravi Shastri has made a sensational comment about Hardik Pandya. Talking about the reasons behind India’s failure in two World Cups and the World Test Championship, he slammed the Team India all-rounder. “I always want a top-sixer who can bowl,” the…

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khwxbeeda · 5 months

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Welcome to my side blog! I'm Amrut— a BA Philosophy student, bookworm and book dragon, science nerd, tharki and all round idiot. My native tongue is Marathi, and I can speak Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, English and French. I'm a Fashion Girlie™ (gn) and obsessed with aesthetics and all forms of art.

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beardedmrbean · 3 months

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Two bomb explosions near candidates' offices in the Pakistani province of Balochistan killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens on the eve of general elections, officials said.

The first blast killed 16 people in Pishin district, north of Quetta city.

A second explosion left 12 people dead in Qila Saifullah to the east. There was no immediate claim for the attacks.

The vote has been marred by violence and claims of poll-rigging. Former PM Imran Khan is barred from contesting.

Police are still trying to determine the cause of the two blasts.

Resource-rich Balochistan - Pakistan's largest, and poorest, province - has a history of violence. It has seen a decades-long struggle for greater autonomy by various groups, some of them armed. Islamist militants, including the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), operate along the border with Afghanistan.

The bomb in Pishin, a town about 100km (62 miles) south-east of the Afghan border, went off in front of an independent candidate's party office. The provincial authorities said 25 people were also wounded.

Images on social media showed cars and motorbikes blown apart by the force of the explosion. Officials told the BBC the candidate was meeting his polling agent at the time.

The second blast targeted the election office of the JUI-F party. A senior police official told AFP news agency it took place in the main bazaar of Qila Saifullah, about 190km (120 miles) east of Quetta.

Twenty people were wounded in the incident and the number of casualties in the two attacks could rise, officials said.

There have been violent incidents in both Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces in the week before Thursday's vote, and the violence in Pishin and Qila Saifullah was not unexpected.

In mid-January, Baloch Liberation Army-Azad (BLA) insurgents released a pamphlet after claiming responsibility for bombing an election training office. The pamphlet urged people to boycott the elections. Soon after, reports of hand grenade attacks on political party offices were reported from various cities in the province.

Many voters in Balochistan feel neglected by the country's political parties, given the province has so few seats in parliament. They often feel candidates are foisted on them, with few if any links to Balochistan.

And many feel the vote is unfair. "It is a selection," numerous people told BBC Urdu in the city of Turbat last month.

Following Wednesday's attacks, the Balochistan government said Thursday's vote would proceed as planned.

"Rest assured, we will not allow terrorists to undermine or sabotage this crucial democratic process," provincial information minister Jan Achakzai posted on X, formerly Twitter.

More than 128 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in the election. In Pakistan's first-past-the-post system, 266 of 336 National Assembly seats are directly elected.

But many people are questioning the credibility of the vote as Khan and his party, the PTI, have been sidelined.

The PTI won the largest number of seats in the last general election but Khan was jailed on corruption charges last year and disqualified from running for public office. Last week he was convicted in three other cases and faces years in prison - he says all the charges are politically motivated.

The authorities deny carrying out a crackdown, but many PTI leaders are behind bars, in hiding or have defected. Thousands of the party's supporters were rounded up after protests - at times violent - when Khan was taken into custody last year.

PTI candidates are having to run as independents following the electoral commission's decision to strip the party of its cricket bat symbol. Electoral symbols are vital in helping voters mark their ballots in a country with high rates of illiteracy.

The man tipped to win Thursday's election is three-time former PM Nawaz Sharif, who himself was behind bars at the last election. Analysts say it appears he has done a deal with the military to facilitate his return to politics.

A high turnout will be key to the PTI's chances, many analysts say. How to tackle, and who to blame for, the country's economic crisis will be high in voters' minds. Results must be announced within 14 days of the election.

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faheemkhan882 · 11 months

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Urdu adab #qurandaily #Pakistan

#DrIsrarAhmed #islam #quranrecitation #PakistanUnderFascism #pakistaneconomy #pakistanidrama #PakistanZindabad #pakistanifashion #imrankhanfans #ImranKhanPTI #ImranKhan #ImranRiazKhan #ImranKhanZindabad #ImranKhanLive #PTI #ptipunjab #PTIofficial #PTITMultimediaChallenges #urdupoetry #urdu #urduquotes #urduadab #urdushayari #urdulines #UrduNews #اردوشاعری #اردو #اردوترجمہ #اردوادب #سنہرے Urdu News Urdu Cover BBC URDU DW اردو Urdu Ghazal اردو غزل اردو ناول اینڈ کہانیاں The Urdu Writings: ہم اُردو ہیں اردو ادب و شاعری

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burlveneer-music · 1 year

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Electric Sufi - Breathe In Love

This is Breathe in Love, the new album by Electric Sufi. A first single 'O Ignis Spiritus' will be released on 1 February 2023, the album will be released later that year.

Electric Sufi are Sheffield based Professor of Music and Sound Archaeologist at Huddersfield University Rupert Till, Manchester based singer-songwriter and environmental activist Sarah Yaseen and Nottingham based multi-instrumentalist / University lecturer Mina Mikhael Salama.

Rupert has produced ambient dance, chillout and electronic music under the the moniker Professor Chill throughout his career, including the album Dub Archaeology released in 2018. He’s also written the book Pop Cult which delves into the mysteries of music and spirituality, participated in the BBC TV series Civilisations as well as numerous other TV and radio shows, plus written articles in The Quietus, Huffington Post and New Scientist. His extensive research projects have been wide and varied, covering a multitude of subjects ranging from ‘The influences of Religion on British Club Culture and Electronic Dance music’ to ‘Sound Archaeology, Acoustics and Cave Art’.

Sarah, whose family roots are in Kashmir, is known in world music circles as a singer in UK Womad favourites Rafiki Jazz and Danish all-woman ensemble Radiant Arcadia. In Electric Sufi she sings in Urdu, Punjabi, Persian, Latin and English – and by doing so, draws upon a wide range of cultural influences. Inspired by Qawwali (Islamic devotional singing from India) and Ghazals (Arabic poetry), she has one foot firmly placed in a contemporary multicultural world and the other in the ancient lyrical and musical traditions on which she draws.

Mina, a Coptic Christian from Alexandria, Egypt, came to the UK as a refugee, taking asylum here from persecution in his homeland. He has since contributed much to UK culture through his performances at WOMAD, Edinburgh Festival, The Southbank, London as well as Cardiff, Leicester, Manchester and beyond. Along with Rupert, Mina has also contributed to the BBC TV series Civilisations where he demonstrated a 30,000-year-old Isturitz Vulture bone flute. On an international level, Mina has contributed to the music score on Disney’s Aladdin, directed by Guy Richie and starring Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott.

With a first performance at Bradford’s Kala Sangam Arts Centre, which received much applause from a diverse audience, this trio brings much collectively and individually to the Electric Sufi sound, resulting in a rich tapestry of cultural and musical layers of influence that their album Breathe In Love explores in much detail. Their modern interpretation of O Ignis Spiritus is a wonderful introduction to this enchanted world and their message of hope.

#electric sufi #electronic #middle eastern music #2023 #uk

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corolune · 1 year

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tag people you want to get to know better

thank you for tagging me, @strangesoulmates and @afewbulbsshortofatanningbed !!!

Three ships:

Any form of Yassen and Alex having to talk to each other. There’s so much to explore, whether it’s a romantic, platonic, or familial relationship…or even enemies.

Doctor/Rose in any form, though I’m quite partial to Nine, Ten, Tentoo, and Twelve. +1 if it’s multiple doctors and a bad wolf Rose!

Merlin/Morgana — unsurprising to anyone who knows me, I love how they mirror each other and there’s so many interesting ways to explore their relationship…either one of them could have turned into the other if they had made different decisions…and the ambiguity of who’s actually “good” is very interesting too! (I know the showrunners want us to think Merlin’s good and Morgana’s evil, but they both have very legitimate reasons for their allegiances, and tbh sometimes Morgana made more sense than Merlin lol)

First ever ship: hahaha I think it was Guy/Marian from BBC's Robin Hood! Or if you want to go even earlier…my first ever fanart at the age of 6 was of fox-Robin and fox-Marian from the disney version (they were in a car with balloons that said “just married” and I very thoughtfully gifted it to my neighbour (who was single lol) and told him to save it for when he gets married…he was such a sweet guy he actually hung it on his fridge for months 😆)

Last song: one of my birds loudly singing their made up song…and the other one aggressively asking him “HEY hey WHAT you doooo??”

Last movie: Balam Ji Love You — don’t judge lol. It’s ridiculous and campy but HILARIOUS, I actually had to pause the video several times to laugh 😆. Thanks to youtube’s algorithm I’ve made my way past Hindi films into regional cinema, which unfortunately doesn’t come with subtitles…but in a strange coincidence, it turns out the language of this movie (Bhojpuri) is a dialect of the same language my great-grandparents spoke! My mum used to hear it at home as a kid but never knew what it was called. SO I’ve once again roped her in to help translate (she understands like 80% of it, and it fills me with so much joy when she gets excited hearing and rediscovering a word/phrase she used to say at home with her grandparents & parents but had forgotten in the past few decades of speaking only Hindi/Urdu and English!)

Currently reading: an excel spreadsheet of project timelines and marketing goals 😭 (I haven’t read a book in so long, pls rec me funny things)

Currently watching: Tere Bin — the sets and costumes are GORGEOUS and I am so impressed with the acting, especially the male lead who has usually been a very friendly, flirty character in past dramas I’ve seen. Just look at the man in the gif below, the first time I saw him in a drama it was a comedy where he was trying to get an older lady to fall for him so he could have money and never have to go to work 😆 — he's done such a good job taking on this intense character! (I’ve paused on episode 5, because I can sense the cliffhangers coming and I’m waiting for the series to actually finish before I continue watching lol)

Currently consuming: chocolate chip cookies!

Currently craving: cherries. A few weeks ago I miraculously found some for $3/lb but they’re back to like $10/lb everywhere 😞

tagging (no pressure if you don't have the time) @yucasava @irelise @jackstarbrightisaqueen @morfoxx @wishuponadragon and anyone else who'd like to play!

#ask #ask game #about me #desiblr #the real question is: how did youtube know my mum knew this language before either of us knew 🤔#anyway I know Bhojpuri movies get a bad rap but the ones I've watched so far seem pretty well made for how low their budget is!#I've mostly watched more recent ones with Khesari Lal Yadav (who is an extremely funny person) and they're quite nice (and very funny)#they're mostly set in the countryside and the key thing you need to keep in mind is they KNOW they've got a low budget #so instead of making things look realistic they always go for whatever is funnier/more entertaining #but it's been very cool to see the place where my grandparents were born! I'm learning so much about the culture #like apparently we're known for being funny 😂#pls message me if you want to hear me ramble on about this lol

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williamchasterson · 3 months

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It's a dream come true to work in Urdu with Zayn Malik, say band

“He is so down to earth, he sang in Urdu, what can be bigger than that?” say Pakistani band Aur. from BBC News – World https://ift.tt/WFJm4eg via IFTTT

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thedhananjayaparkhe · 4 months

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WOTD AND QOTD

Word of the Day plaintive (pleɪntɪv , ప్లేన్టివ / ప్లైన్టివ / ప్లైనివ) Example She was known for her plaintive singing of Urdu poems, set to tunes influenced by Indian classical music and the folk melodies of the Himalayas. — “Pakistani folk music doyenne dies”, BBC News, 4 February, 2004 Definition adjective expressing sorrow Synonyms: mournful Quote of the Day “Hope never abandons you,…

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itsnotgoingtotranslate · 4 months

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"It is not my place to argue with people and their dreams, but I am fairly certain that this is not how translation works. A great scholar of Persian and Urdu literature, Christopher Shackle, describes Ladinsky’s output as “not so much a paraphrase as a parody of the wondrously wrought style of the greatest master of Persian art-poetry.” Another critic, Murat Nemet-Nejat, described Ladinsky’s poems as what they are: original poems of Ladinsky masquerading as a “translation.”

[...] So yes, Ladinsky’s poetry is mystical. And it is great poetry. So good that it is listed on Good Reads as the wisdom of “Hafez of Shiraz.” The problem is, Hafez of Shiraz said nothing like that. Daniel Ladinsky of St Louis did.

[...]Ladinsky’s “translations” have been passed on by Oprah, the BBC, and others. Government officials have used them on occasions where they have wanted to include Persian speakers and Iranians. It is now part of the spiritual wisdom of the East shared in Western circles. Which is great for Ladinsky, but we are missing the chance to hear from the actual, real Hafez. And that is a shame.

[...] Hafez’s worldview is inseparable from the world of Medieval Islam, the genre of Persian love poetry, and more. And yet he is deliciously impossible to pin down. He is a mystic, though he pokes fun at ostentatious mystics. His own name is “he who has committed the Quran to heart”, yet he loathes religious hypocrisy. He shows his own piety while his poetry is filled with references to intoxication and wine that may be literal or may be symbolic. [...] Rumi (whose poetic output is in the tens of thousands) comes at you like you an ocean, pulling you in until you surrender to his mystical wave and are washed back to the ocean. Hafez, on the other hand, is like a luminous diamond, with each facet being a perfect cut. You cannot add or take away a word from his sonnets.

[...] Part of what is going on here is what we also see, to a lesser extent, with Rumi: the voice and genius of the Persian speaking, Muslim, mystical, sensual sage of Shiraz are usurped and erased, and taken over by a white American with no connection to Hafez’s Islam or Persian tradition. This is erasure and spiritual colonialism. Which is a shame, because Hafez’s poetry deserves to be read worldwide alongside Shakespeare and Toni Morrison, Tagore and Whitman, Pablo Neruda and the real Rumi, Tao Te Ching and the Gita, Mahmoud Darwish, and the like.

[...] A great scholar of Islam, the late Shahab Ahmed, referred to Hafez’s Divan as: “the most widely-copied, widely-circulated, widely-read, widely-memorized, widely-recited, widely-invoked, and widely-proverbialized book of poetry in Islamic history.” [...His] poetry is considered the very epitome of Persian in the Ghazal tradition.

[...] Hafez’s poetry has not been sitting idly on a shelf gathering dust. It has been, and continues to be, the lifeline of the poetic and religious imagination of tens of millions of human beings. Hafez has something to say, and to sing, to the whole world, but bypassing these tens of millions who have kept Hafez in their heart as Hafez kept the Quran in his heart is tantamount to erasure and appropriation.

[...] Oh, and one last thing: It is Haaaaafez, not Hafeeeeez. Please."

#hafez #rumi #hafiz

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news-locus · 4 months

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BBC Urdu Published Fake Story | ISPR Explanation | Breaking News

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kkginfo · 2 years

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WATCH VIDEO: What West Indies legend did in the dressing room that shocked Indian players? | KKG INFO

In the first ODI against West Indies, Shikhar Dhawan scored a stunning 97 runs. But he fell short of the century by 3 runs. Shubman Gill scored 64 runs. West Indies Vs India 1st ODI West Indies former star Brian Lara India beat West Indies by 3 runs in the first match of ODI series. Batting first, the Indian team scored 308 runs in this match held on Friday. Batting later, West Indies managed…

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zibah-ho · 5 months

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whoever is doing the Urdu bit for English subtitles for bbc iplayer is nikama and has never spoken the language in their life and on god if they get paid more than me to do a job they are shit at

#just listen to the sound like. if you were going just off subtitles you’d have no idea what they’re saying #also. at least iplayer attempt to transcribe it like. Netflix is just. [speaks hindi]#for any south Asian language #zh.txt #wait is it a machine…… tauba. (forgot not everything is done by people)

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automatismoateo · 6 months

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The Taliban didn't let men help injured women during the recent earthquake (Why does the Media suppress the reporting of such news) via /r/atheism

The Taliban didn't let men help injured women during the recent earthquake (Why does the Media suppress the reporting of such news) According to BBC News: 90% of victims of the recent earthquake in Afghanistan were women and children, yet: The Taaliban didn't let men help the injured women during the earthquake. And there were almost no lady doctors present in hospitals due to the Taliban's ban on women from getting higher education and working. The Taliban didn't even let other women helpers come to that area to help injured women. It is just horrible. My heart is crying for those poor injured women. I also cried when a Muslim father let his 20-year-old daughter drown off a beach in Dubai by preventing lifeguards from rescuing her because he did not want her to be touched by a strange man. I also cried when 15 young girls were left to burn in a fire at their school in Mecca. They could have escaped the fire but were not allowed to flee the burning building as they were not wearing proper ‘Islamic’ clothes. Saudi Arabia’s Religious Police prevented the Civil Defense Officers from entering the school to save the girls and stopped the girls from coming out of the building. ** The bigger problem is the media often try to not publish such news on a large scale. Only BBC Urdu reported it (and not even the English BBC covered this story about Afghanistan). Submitted October 21, 2023 at 02:04PM by Lehrasap (From Reddit https://ift.tt/2DgtpBh)

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recentlyheardcom · 7 months

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Senator Mushtaq Ahmed of the Jamaat-e-Islami party called it "shameful". Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar even ordered an investigation. Online chatter amongst Pakistani men in particular has been scathing.But what is sparking such outrage?A 24-year-old woman.Erica Robin, a Christian from the city of Karachi, is going to represent deeply conservative Pakistan at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.Ms Robin was chosen as Miss Universe Pakistan from among five finalists at a competition held in the Maldives.It was organised by Dubai-based Yugen Group, which also owns the franchise rights to Miss Universe Bahrain and Miss Universe Egypt. It said the Miss Universe Pakistan competition had received an "overwhelming" number of applications.The Miss Universe finals will be held in El Salvador in November.Backlash and support"It feels great to represent Pakistan. But I don't understand where the backlash is coming from. I think it is this idea that I would be parading in a swimsuit in a room full of men," Ms Robin told the BBC.Those criticising her nomination say she is representing a country that does not want to be represented, especially as beauty pageants are rare in Muslim-majority Pakistan.Miss Pakistan World, a pageant for women of Pakistani descent from around the world, is probably the most well-known. It was first held in Toronto in 2002 but moved to Lahore in 2020. The competition has also seen various spin offs such as Miss Pakistan Universal, Mrs Pakistan Universal and even Miss Trans Pakistan.In the competition's 72-year history, Pakistan has never nominated a representative for Miss Universe.Ms Robin recalled that during the second selection round of the pageant which was held over Zoom, she was asked to name one thing she wanted to do for her country. "And I replied, I would want to change this mindset that Pakistan is a backward country."This may be difficult, given some of the hostile responses to her nomination.Nevertheless, models, writers and journalists alike congratulated Ms Robin, with journalist Mariana Babar hailing her "beauty and brains" on X, formerly known as Twitter.But as Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmed, who first encouraged Ms Robin to get into modelling, told Voice of America Urdu: "When these men are fine with international competitions called 'Mister Pakistan', why do they have a problem with a woman's achievement?"From rock and roll to Islamic Republic"We are a nation of many contradictions and women and the marginalised trigger us the most," Karachi-based writer and commentator Rafay Mehmood told the BBC."Pakistan is at large an authoritarian state and that reflects in the harsh patriarchal values it enables both institutionally and socially. Erica Robin and the policing she has faced is an extension of that," he added.But there exists an archive of a Pakistan that was once far more liberal.Copies of the Dawn newspaper from the 1950s to the late 1970s have advertisements of cabaret and foreign belly dancers performing at a club near the former Elphinstone Street in downtown Karachi. These nightclubs were frequented by activists, diplomats, politicians, air hostesses and young people.The historic Metropole Hotel in Karachi was also a favoured spot for singing and jazz performances.But in 1973, Pakistan's parliament created a constitution that declared the country an Islamic Republic and Islam as the state religion.Four years later, military leader General Zia ul-Haq overthrew the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. What followed in the decade after has been called a "draconian phase" by activists and lawyers as Islamic law was enforced and Pakistani society was drastically altered.By the mid-1980s, General Zia had even resurrected public flogging to show his commitment to Islamic law.Today, the nightclubs and bars are long gone, and the Metropole Hotel looks more like it is in danger of collapsing. Just down the road, a skeletal structure of what was initially supposed to be a casino stands abandoned.

But the yearning for a freer, more tolerant Pakistan has not gone away, and Ms Robin is just one of those pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not. The graduate of St Patrick's High School and Government College of Commerce and Economics, is adamant that she has done nothing wrong."I'm not breaking any law by representing Pakistan on a global platform. I am doing my bit to quell any stereotypes about it," she said.

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