July 7, 2025
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Gulzar, unique and a paradox

Gulzar has liberated Urdu poetry from its high-rhetorical Indo-Persian conventions and time-worn collocations. | Photo Credit: V. Sudershan What can you give a man who already has 22 Filmfare awards, a Grammy, an Oscar, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Lifetime Achievement in Indian cinema? The answer: a Jnanpith award, which is similarly a lifetime […]