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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Neem ki Haveli was in a terrible condition like many other havelis in Old Delhi. Atul Khanna restored it & now along with Kathika has become a beautiful destination for cultural activities. I had a book discussion there with Aishwarya Jha a few months ago & today a presentation on Ghalib

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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Crouching tiger, running camel. Wall painting in the 18th century Bagore Ki Haveli, Udaipur.

A wall painting which has wrapped around an architectural protrusion. On the right is a man riding a camel, while on the left, a tiger sits on top of a sill.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

on Valentine's Day here are 21 Urdu words for love, noted by Prof Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. These convey different shades and stages of (sexual/sacred) love. They are in no particular order. And words for lust, etc. are not listed youtu.be/z82ySUzJQZo?...

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on Valentine's Day here are 21 Urdu words for love, noted by Prof Shamsur Rahman Faruqi sahib

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

what is ishq-e haqeeqi : and it doesn't have anything to do with Valentine's Day ( a simple beginner's explanation-. For more details read my book In Search of the Divine) youtu.be/I7CfzX7TcEA?...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

‎Shab-e Barat ‎“Verily, My Mercy prevails over My Wrath.”~ Hadith e Qudsi ‎Shab e Baraat – This blessed night starts at sunset on the 14th of Shaban and ends at dawn on the 15th of Shaban. . ‎ ‎image: courtesy Pergamon museum – Princess Zebunnisa celebrating Shab e Barat

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

the awadh version of rohu, with methi and dahi

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Death is a great leveler 157th birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan, a philanthropist, freedom fighter, famous hakeem and nationalist is a well known personality. He sleeps forgotten in one of Delhi's bastis, his grave in a 2 gaz space in what was once his family qabristan.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Maula ki zamanat mein diya ranasafvi.com/what-is-imam...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

one of the oft overlooked gem of the Jama Masjid, Delhi is the makabbar. ‎This is the station for the Mukabbir, he who asists the Imam by giving the time by which the various motions in the prayer are regulated., repeating the formula, Allahu Akbar (اللہ اکبر) in prayers.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Will be signing my book in Penguin India stall at the World Book Fair 4 Feb, 25 1 pm Please come

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

At the dargah of Hazrat Inayat Shah (1882–1927 CE), a Chisti Sufi he travelled west in 1910. & established the Sufi order in 1914 & taught ‘universal Sufism’, which became International Sufi Movement in 1923. Sufism, acc to him, is based on ‘Tauheed’ & unity of religious ideals, love and harmony

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The eve of 27th Rajab is Shab e Meraj the night journey of the Holy Prophet (s) from Mecca to al-Aqsa Mosque and from there to the heavens. It's divided in two parts. Isra and Meraj Image by Mahmud Farshchian

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Buraq painted on the arches of Sibtainabad Imambara in Lucknow #Shab e Meraj

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In the Indian Express The History Keeper interviewed by Devyani Onial

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Prof Irfan Habib on The Extraordinary Legacy of the INA " it is doubly important that we continue to pay tribute to the INA, and also to hold high the banners that Azad Hind Fauj had raised, the banners of national dignity, unity, communal brotherhood, & also secularism." thewire.in/history/full...

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Full Text | The Extraordinary Legacy of the INA

'I think it is doubly important that we continue to pay tribute to the INA, and also to hold high the banners that Azad Hind Fauj had raised, the banners of national dignity, unity, communal brotherho...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

‪Bae gaye baalam, bae gaye nadia kinaar, ‬ ‪Aapay paar utar gaye, hum to rahay ehi paar ‬ He has crossed, the beloved has crossed, Has reached the other side, on his own. With me, left here alone. Translation from: www.angelfire.com/sd/urdumedia...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

visited the Jahannuma masjid aka Jama Masjid , Delhi yesterday

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This lithographed line drawing accompanied the 'Kulliyat-e Ghalib' published in 1863 by Naval Kishor Press. #BirthAnniversary #ghalib

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The only known photograph of Ghalib The photo belonged to Mrs. Santosh Mathur, great-granddaughter of Babu Shiv Narain, who was a friend of Ghalib's; it is now in a private collection in Allahabad. #Ghalib #BirthAnniversary

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits

Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan (on respective thrones)

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Iqtibaas اقتباس @iqtibaas88.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Nativity paintings (1954) by the Indian artist Angelo Da Fonseca (1902-1967). His work has many famous examples of modern Indian Christian Iconography.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

O Come let us adore him Christ the Lord Adoration of the Christ Child 1630 from (Golconda) Merry Christmas friends

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Naz Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Not just India’s. History is being retold in ways that appease the ruling class that benefited from colonialism and/or slavery past and present everywhere.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ufffff f the beauty! Two ladies sit talking and taking refreshments on a terrace laid with a fine carpet. Attributed to Rai Anup Chattar, gouache with gold, c.1710. #Mughal British Library Johnson 21,6

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A great lesson in how skillful cleaning, conservation, & restoration can completely change how we see an artwork - and in the process even change our understanding of who created it

Painted image of two tritons, or mermen, carrying an enticing array of seafood, standing in a body of water

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Angela S Chiu @chiuangelas.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has an exhibition on its decision to repatriate looted antiquities that should be a model for all other museums

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sikandar Adil Shah was the last Sultan of Bijapur, who reigned between 1672 and 1686. He lies buried in a simple grave in the middle of a Bijapur market. His ancestors sleep in Gol Gumbad & Ibrahim Rauza. A lesson that nothing remains, least of all power.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today I learnt that the jars for storing pickles etc derive their name from large glazed ceramic storage jars made in a port city in Burma called Martaban & exported from there Martaban jars find mention in Ibn Batuta 's Rehla #martaban is now a generic name for large storage ceramic glazed jars.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present by Vivek Gupta www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/16/d...

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Dance performance addresses fraught politics around South Asian heritage

Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present

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Sunsets 🌅 @sunsetx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@ranasafvi.bsky.social Dear Ranaji, thoroughly enjoying Mehdi Hassan’s gazal and your invaluable translation, especially into English transliteration, for this soul detached from home for generations. 🙏🏾 thank you Thank you.

Dear Ranaji, thoroughly enjoying Mehdi Hassan’s gazal and your invaluable translation, especially into English transliteration, for this soul detached from home for generations. 🙏🏾 thank you Thank you.

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Jignasa @calijignasa.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Chokha, Maharana Bhim Singh returns from the hunt. Mewar 1803. Decked in the first royal green hunting clothes, jewelry. Two hunting dogs, Salukis Persian greyhounds. @sharadmohan.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social @cherishdcherry.bsky.social @punjabirooh.bsky.social @ranasafvi.bsky.social

Indian miniature painting with Chokha, Maharana Bhim Singh returns from the hunt. Mewar 1803. Decked in the first royal green hunting clothes, jewelry. Two hunting dogs, Salukis Persian greyhounds.

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The other pillar in Kausambi youtube.com/watch?v=0aXD...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Calligraphy on Gravestones/cenotaphs are an art in itself. Here we have ayat 26-27 of Surah Rahman with a message for humans about their mortality and transitory nature of material possessions. Only Almighty God will endure. "Kullu man 'alaihaa faan Wa yabqaa wajhu rabbika zul jalaali wal ikraam"

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Taragarh dargah in Ajmer and its syncretic traditions as revealed by the structures in its compound. youtube.com/watch?v=XvZa...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

winters are here in our local haat Anyone needs recipes for greens do ask

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#shair pays tribute to Josh Malihabadi on his birth anniversary Behoshiyon Ne aur khabardar kar diya Soi jo aql rooh ne bedar kar diya

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The sermon of Lord Buddha to King Udayan “अना इंसान का सबसे बड़ा दुश्मन है। तुम्हारी तलवार तुम्हारी समझदारी हो, तुम्हारा क़िला ईमान, सख़ावत और अख़लाक़ हो, तुम्हारी फ़ौज नेकी हो और तुम्हारी ज़िरह सब्र हो। तुम्हारा नेज़ा मेहनत हो, तुम्हारी कमान ग़ौर-ओ-फ़िक्र हो और तुम्हारा तीर लाताल्लुक़ी हो।” youtube.com/watch?v=lRBh...

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

in Kausambi, near Allahabad yesterday It was in Kausambi that Lord Buddha gave a sermon which resulted in the conversion of King Udayan to Buddhism 1/

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Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

sair kar duniya ki ghafil zindagani phir kahan zindagi gar kuchh rahi to ye jawani phir kahan Khwaja Mir Dars yesterday in kosambi on the yamuna river

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Kapadia, R @eyeforart.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sadly, nothing came of it. Our founding fathers were weird about equality--in spite of their insistence that all men were "created equal"

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Dr. Claire Morgan @meenakari.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“He was very well connected through friendships and business success but while he was engaged with building up wealthy clientele, he had radical ideas and his family were very involved with issues and campaigning.” #Abolitionism #Wedgwood #DecorativeArts #Ceramics #V&A #IndustrialRevolution

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