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When Istanbul Sings; We Hear Many Istanbuls

July 21, 2015 admin Recommendations

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Fatih Akin’s documentary Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city of Istanbul, where a symbiosis

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Five Editors on the Road, in Search of Readers..

July 19, 2015 admin Uncategorized

In the month of Ramadan, we, the editorial team at Other Books set off on a road that we haven’t known before: a book promotion trip from Calicut to Thiruvananthapuram, connecting individuals, institutions, organisations and common people. The idea was simple: meet our readers, friends, well-wishers, authors, translators, community leaders, research scholars, activists, imams and common public and talk to

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