For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Before I met Jowshan Ara Rahman as poet Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury's wife, I had known her chiefly as involved with the publication ...

I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who wrote the first poem on Ekushey. I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I ...

From India's first talkie film, Alam Ara, to colour cinema classics like Mughal-E-Azam, Maganlal Dresswalla has dressed generations of stars and characters in unforgettable garb. Creating costumes for ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Friday that the Jharkhand government was the government of Congress leaders Alamgir Alam and Irfan Ansari – a former and current minister, respectively – ...

While Kapoor quelled him with a spirited riposte, his career also showcased his prowess as he shuttled from films -- appearing in the first Indian talkie 'Alam Ara' (1931) -- to theatre, where his ...

It is the 1920s: India is on edge as concepts of technology, politics, freedom, love, and the arts undergo rapid transformation. At the core of this churn is the freedom struggle, which forms the ...

The celebrated writer and the 1940s movie star were thick friends before and after the partition. Published 28 Feb, 2016 12:03pm ...

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