Arsalan Khan

Suzanne Khan wished boyfriend Arslan Goni on his birthday, ex-husband Hrithik Roshan also said - Happy B'Day

Suzanne Khan wished boyfriend Arslan Goni on his birthday, ex-husband Hrithik Roshan also said – Happy B’Day

new Delhi. Hrithik Roshan’s ex-wife Sussanne Khan remains vocal about her relationship with Ali Goni’s brother Arslan Goni. Even on social media, these two often share many photos and videos with each other. Today, on the birthday of Arsalan Goni, Sussanne Khan has shared a special video for her boyfriend. Sussanne Khan has shared a lovely video of her love-filled moments with Arslan…

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At exactly 11am on a Saturday in mid-November, hundreds of students from Luton Sixth Form College streamed out of their school, gathering outside in a sea of black, white and red keffiyehs and Palestinian flags. They carried banners and placards saying “Bombing kids is not self-defence” and “This is no ‘conflict’ it’s genocide”, referring to Israel’s war on Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on southern Israel. Student organisers of the rally read out speeches against the war, in which Israeli bombs and artillery fire have now killed more than 21,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 8,000 children. Yet Israel wasn’t the only target of criticism at the rally: The students were protesting against their college’s links to an arms company that had supplied weapons and advanced military platforms to Israel. The walkout was organised by the school’s student council after its chair, 18-year-old Hassan Sajjad, was approached by students critical of the senior leadership at the college, who some students felt had failed to address or acknowledge strong student sentiment towards the Israel-Gaza conflict. But a week later, Sajjad and the other council members were informed by the school leadership that their entire council had been disbanded, months before their term was supposed to end in April 2024. Their student council email communication was also suspended. “It shattered my understanding of democracy in college, and the idea of freedom of speech and ‘British values’,” Sajjad said. Since the start of the war, the United Kingdom has seen unrelenting demonstrations urging the government to call for a ceasefire. Yet as students in schools, colleges and universities across the UK also joined the chorus condemning the war, they have also been reprimanded, subtly or explicitly, for their pro-Palestine advocacy in several instances, igniting concerns around freedom of speech. Luton, a town less than 48km (30 miles) north of London with a majority ethnic minority population, has been at the centre of that debate after the backlash faced by students over their walkout. It all started when students discovered that their school had played host to a weapons giant with ties to Israel’s military.

‘Protest to have your voice heard’

Though Israel is today a major arms exporter, it continues to import weapons from the West. The United States is its biggest military partner and the source of 83 percent of Israel’s weapons imports between 1950 and 2020. But the UK has also been a steady military ally to Israel. It has licensed arms worth more than 442 million pounds ($563m) to Israel between May 2015 and August 2022 and is now facing a legal challenge in the High Court from Palestinian human rights groups.

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A walkout wasn’t the student council’s first planned course of action against the war. The council – who represent over 3,000 students – suggested organising a fundraiser for Gaza and the occupied West Bank. As the civilian death count mounted in Gaza, the council also flagged the college’s relationship with Leonardo[, one of the world's largest arms companies]. For about a month, their requests were met with silence. Then, the school’s leadership said the students could fundraise but only for an event that wasn’t specifically for Palestinians. “If students aren’t being catered for and the [school leaders] are not respecting the student council – the people who represent the thousands – then you only have one option left: that’s to protest to have your voice heard”, Sajjad said. On November 18, hundreds of students walked out of their lesson in what was a peaceful protest. “We wanted students to know this is your legal right to protest, and you shouldn’t feel pressured or afraid to protest”, said Arsalan Ilyas, 17, a student at the college.

-- From "Walkout over weapons: British school students battle Gaza protest curbs" by Aina Khan for Al Jazeera, 31 Dec 2023

Help in analyzing a picture titled "Historical Attire vs Folk Costume"

I was going around Pinterest when I saw these pictures below. Since I have little to no knowledge of Indian fashion and its history, I would love to hear your thoughts  and analysis of the pictures. They are done by  the artist named "Arsalan Khan". There was a caption included with the pictures, it was written by @vishvajit.artem (Instagram) and  goes as follows:

Link to the pictures and the caption: https://arsalanactual.artstation.com/projects/aYVP6J

Thanks for the submission.

Regarding the pictures, the side by side comparison is I guess to show that historical costume lives on in folk costume? I am not sure the term "folk" is entirely applicable, nevertheless you could say that the old styles live on in a modified form. I guess the artist has chosen particular images to illustrate this, without specifying the time period.

Regarding the text, one of its lines says ; "All of these clothes purposefully made, reflects the pragmatism intertwined with culture and emotions" - I think part of the culture and emotions of an age is also the fantasies we see on screen (Bollywood). So I think cinema industries trade in something other than real life and the audience knows this. Real life, folk costume may be pragmatic but even there people do draw inspiration from many things, including Bollywood.

Ishq, Inshallah

Is Kashmir getting on the South Asia’s music map?

By Faisul Yaseen

Faheem Abdullah and Rauhan Malik’s recent song ‘Ishq’ from ‘Lost; Found’ album has immortalised the work of Amir Ameer, a poet from Rahim Yar Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

It is breaking the internet and becoming a trending meme song. The song is also bringing closer music lovers across India and Pakistan, who are raving about Ameer’s mesmerising poetry and soothing voice of Abdullah and Malik. ‘Ishq’ may not be the best thing to have happened to the Kashmir music industry but it certainly has attracted traction and could play its part in putting Kashmir on South Asia’s music map.

Though boasting of rich musical instrumentals, magical voices, and insightful poetry, Kashmir’s music industry has suffered over the decades due to the Kashmiri language’s limited reach as only 6.8 million people speak Kashmiri. However, the experimentation of composing Urdu songs by young Kashmiri singers like Abdullah and Malik and a crop of new-generation Kashmiri singers is making the canvas bigger for them as Urdu boasts 71.29 million native speakers while the language is also understood by 571.3 million native Hindi speakers.

Like Abdullah and Malik, someone who took this experimentation to new heights in Kashmir was Yawar Abdal, a new-age Kashmiri singer who, in 2017, experimented with his single, ‘Tamana’, a multilingual song in Kashmiri, Urdu, and Persian languages based on the poetry of three legendary poets: Mehjoor (Kashmiri), Mirza Ghalib (Urdu), and Amir Khusru (Persian). The song became an instant hit on the internet. Abdal’s best work to date though might not be ‘Tamama’ but a lesser hit ‘Inshallah’. It is an artistic genius: multilayered and ambiguous and shakes a listener out of placid.

Abdal may not have the best voice among the new-age Kashmiri singers but he is heads and shoulders above others when it comes to crafting his work. Like his unconventional music, the visualisation in his music videos touches raw nerves and asks questions that only great art can.

Canadian pop artist Grimes says, “Only art ever saved me, everything else has betrayed me.” And Abdal’s music and music videos never betray your trust.

Jyotsna Bharti in ‘Mixing Old Melody with New Melancholy: Meet Kashmir’s Fresh Folksingers’ writes, “At a time when youngsters elsewhere are de-rooting themselves and trying westerns, many new-age Kashmiri musicians and singers are popularising their roots. Following the footsteps of their forefathers, they’re finding solace in Rabab, pleasures in poetries and life in mountains…”

These new-age Kashmiri singers like Ali Saifuddin, Mohammad Muneem Nazir, Saim Bhat, Ishfaq Kawa, Rasiq Khan, Waqar Khan, Kabul Bukhari, Arsalan Nizami, Ubair Taj Beigh, Baabarr, Mudacer, Shazia Bashir, Aabha Hanjura, Vibha Saraf, and Rahul Wanchoo wear Kashmir on their sleeves, sport Kashmiri shawls and Pherans, use traditional musical instruments, and shoot music videos in the picturesque locales.

They have taken a leaf out of the book of their ancestors like Raja Begum, Shamima Dev Azad, Ghulam Hassan Sofi, Abdul Rashid Hafiz, Kailash Mehra Sadhu, and Neeraja Pandit and popularised it among the new generations of Kashmir offering them music from their roots and educating them that Kashmiri music might be as rich as the Bollywood and western music and much like the Punjabi music could carve out an identity of its own.

Kashmiri music represents its rich melodic heritage. It has played a significant role in shaping and expressing its cultural identity. Kashmiri music has served as a powerful tool to preserve Kashmiri traditions, values, and stories.

Kalhana in his magnum opus ‘Rajatarangini’ wrote in the 12th Century CE that Kashmiri musical instruments have extremely aged roots. A 4th-century CE tile found during excavation from Harwan shows the impression of a female musician playing a drum. The other person is shown playing a veena. King Bhiksacara (1120-21 CE), who himself played these instruments was fond of ‘Chhakri’ (folk choral singing) which continues to be popular in Kashmir.

According to Kalhana, folk musical instruments like earthen pots and brass vessels were used by Kashmiri people from very early times. Prominent musical instruments played in Kashmir include Surnai, Santoor, Saitar, Nai, Tumbaknari, Noot, and Rabab.

Tumkanari (goblet drum) is usually used by womenfolk on occasions like engagement and marriage functions. In Central Asia Tumkanari called Tumbakh or Tunbak is now made of wood while Kashmir maintains its originality and the musical instrument is still made of baked clay. Similarly, the use of Noet (earthen pot) in Kashmiri music is mentioned in Nilmata Purana as well as Kalhana’s Rajtarangini.

Kashmiri music also has influences from the Central Asian music.

“We even borrowed their music and instruments,” historian Prof Fida Muhammad Hassnain wrote in ‘Common Cultural Links between Kashmir and Central Asia’.

According to B C Deva, the string instruments, Rabab and Sarangi, came to Kashmir with the influence of Muslims.

While some historians state that the most popular instrument used in folk music in Kashmir is the Rabab borrowed from Persia, others suggest it was adopted from Afghanistan centuries ago and has been an integral part of Kashmiri music culture ever since.

These musical instruments have also played a key role in the evolution of Kashmiri Sufiana music.

The instruments used by the Sufiana musicians are quite different from those used in Indian classical music and Kashmiri folk music. The prominent instruments include Santoor, Kashmiri Saitar, Saaz-e-Kashmir, and Tabla.

Shabir Ahmad Mir in his paper ‘Mystical Music: Safeguarding Sufiana Mausiqi – a Vanishing Art Form of Kashmir’ for the International Journal of Intangible Heritage writes, “Sufiana mausiqi (music) continued to flourish during the reign of Sultan Yusuf Shah Chak (1579-1586). His queen, Habba Khatun, is often credited with introducing a maqam ‘Rast-Kashmiri’ by making a little structural variation on maqam Rast-Farsi. Chak and his queen were great patrons of music as well as musicians themselves, and they devoted their time to embellishing Kashmiri classical music. Rast-Kashmiri still forms the most popular maqam of the Sufiana repertory.”

In Kashmir, marriage and engagement functions, Eid festivals, Radio Kashmir Srinagar, and Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar played a key role in keeping the Kashmiri music alive.

Music often has a massive cultural impact as is illustrated by the influence of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The Beatles is considered as the most influential band in the history of popular music and for defining the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Similarly, The Rolling Stones, considered one of the greatest Rock n Roll bands of all time with their raw energy and rebellious image defined the cultural landscape of the 1960s and beyond.

Abdullah, Malik, and Abdal may just have begun their musical journeys but the route they are taking to their stardom might shape Kashmir’s musical heritage for future generations. Who knows next ‘Coke Studio’ shift in South Asia could come from the Valley! Ishq and Inshallah might be the shape of things to come from Kashmir.

Greater Kashmir

Bushra Bibi’s directive for linking opponents to treason exposed: Marriyum

Bushra Bibi’s directive for linking opponents to treason exposed: Marriyum

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday said that another attempt of former prime minister Imran Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi, directing “Arsalan Beta” for linking political opponents to treason, had been exposed. In a statement, the minister said that both versions of the video, the original one and the one produced by Bushra Bibi, were being presented.…

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'Ladla being protected': Pak PM takes jibe at Imran Khan amid delay in foreign funding case verdict

Jul 28, 2022 23:03 IST Islamabad , July 28 (Always First): Hitting out at the Election Commission of Pakistan for delaying the verdict on former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led PTI's "foreign funding" case, PM Shehbaz Sharif said that this is a classic example of how the "Ladla" (Imran) was being protected, media reports said. The Shehbaz Sharif government on Thursday doubled down on its demand, asking the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to issue the verdict on PTI's "foreign funding" case -- which has been pending since 2014, reported ARY News. In a tweet, the PM wrote, "NS was convicted for not taking a salary, 'Ladla' is untouchable. Eight years on, the decision is still elusive." Notably, PTI's founding member Akbar S Babar had filed the case in 2014 where he alleged that the party received foreign funding. The ECP, on June 21, reserved the verdict in the case. He further mentioned that in order to stop the foreign funding case, Khan filed nine writ petitions in the Islamabad High Court and got 50 adjournments. Joining the chorus was Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah. Taking to Twitter he urged ECP to "immediately" announce the verdict of the foreign funding case. "PTI lawyers resorted to delaying tactics for eight years by filing nine writ petitions during the proceedings but now the decision is already reserved," he wrote, adding that a further delay is "incomprehensible". Last week as well, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged the country's election commission to announce a long-delayed verdict in the case of "foreign funding" against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Sharif alleged that for long a free pass had been given to the PTI chief for his repeated and shameless attacks on state institutions, which has hurt the country, the Dawn newspaper reported. "I urge the Election Commission of Pakistan to announce long-delayed judgment on PTI foreign funding case. For long has Imran Niazi been given a free pass despite his repeated and shameless attacks on state institutions. Impunity given to him has hurt the country," Shehbaz said in a tweet. Earlier, on April 14, Islamabad High Court Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani rejected the request to prevent access to case records to PTI's Babar and a request to remove him from the foreign funding case proceedings. During the hearing, petitioner Babar's financial expert, Arsalan Wardak, pointed out that it was an "established fact" that money was received from Britain. He also highlighted that no one was aware of the origins of the money received from Canada, Dawn newspaper reported. "Funds were received from Wootton Cricket Limited for which the registration number has been provided. Another USD 49,000 dollars were received from another company in the United Arab Emirates," he said, adding that the PTI did not deny receiving these funds. The financial expert also highlighted that the donor lists were missing several details. "The PTI received funds from 13 countries There is no record of the Rs20 million received at the PTI chairman's office," he said. (Always First) Read the full article

Imran Khan's Wife Was Behind "Traitor" Campaign Against Rivals: Report

Imran Khan’s Wife Was Behind “Traitor” Campaign Against Rivals: Report

The PTI had constantly maintained that Bushra Bibi has no involvement in politics. (File) Islamabad: A new alleged audio clip of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi has emerged in which she is instructing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI’s) social media head, Dr Arsalan Khalid, to run trends declaring people who oppose PTI as traitors. Bushra Bibi could be heard…

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PPP's Palwasha Khan provides 'empty plot' address on Senate nomination - Proiqra

PPP’s Palwasha Khan provides ’empty plot’ address on Senate nomination – Proiqra

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senate candidate on seats reserved for women from Sindh, Palwasha Khan, has provided the address of an empty government-owned plot as her voting address in the province on the nomination papers, said PTI lawmaker Arsalan Taj while terming her a fraudster. The PTI lawmaker took to Twitter to share the evidence against the PPP Senate candidate. PPP #Senate…

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Arsalan Khan

History of Women's Clothing in India by Arsalan Khan

Bharani Astrology Bharani translates as "to bear" the Nakshatra or lunar mansion is the  Nakshatra ruled by Lord Yama this indicates the sacrificial tendencies  and the justice loving side of this Nakshatra. Most people have  misunderstanding of Bharani Nakshatra people perceive this as "ugra"  Nakshatra but completely ignore the nurturing side of this Nakshatra  this Nakshatra defines the divine Justice and Law of Gods. Spiritual realms of dying and death. by Arsalan Khan https://predictionsforsuccess.com/bharani-nakshtra-what-does-this-mean-if-you-have-this-in-your-chart/

Bharani Astrology Bharani translates as "to bear" the Nakshatra or lunar mansion is the Nakshatra ruled by Lord Yama this indicates the sacrificial tendencies and the justice loving side of this Nakshatra. Most people have misunderstanding of Bharani Nakshatra people perceive this as "ugra" Nakshatra but completely ignore the nurturing side of this Nakshatra this Nakshatra defines the divine Justice and Law of Gods. Spiritual realms of dying and death. by Arsalan Khan