1. Do you know you speak Urdu: Javed Akhtar
1. European Languages have got no script. They all share the same Latin Script.
2. Script is not Language.
3. Dialect has got no script.
4. Language belongs to a region.
5. Language is grammar.
6. Hindi and Urdu emerged from the same roots Khariboli
7. Urdu emerged in the mid 13 th century. It is a mixture of Turkish-Persian words along with Khariboli.
8. Words travel from place to place. With time, history, economic exposure words and vocabulary change.
9. Tamil is the oldest living language in the world. Japanese have got inspired from Tamil and have got may words from Tamil in their vocabulary
10. Religion takes language from Man. Religion has got no language of its own.
2. Altering Narratives: Is Historical Fiction a threat to history ?: Manimugdha Sharma, Parvati Sharma, Sutapa Basu
1. Facts are stranger than fiction. Historians create various interpretations that are purely subjective.
2. History is often told from the victors point of view.
3. History is often told from a point of view to spread the message which was deliberately intended
4. History is a well spun fabricated lie which is often too good to be true. It is to people make believe in order of current times they live in.
5.Understanding the past has usually shaped your present. With history people understand and relate themselves to current times.
6. Historical Fiction can give a perspective of the past and present.
7. Historical fiction with keeping the narratives intact can make people think and have their own series of interpretations.
3. How literature captured history ?: Kishwar Desai, Andew Otis, Anchal Malhotra
1. Non fiction History: Man tries and builds the narrative
2. History has many versions.
3. We can look back in history and see a bit of ourselves. History will enable you to effectively learn from the mistakes. It can make man to do the right thing in future.
4. Indan Time Keeping Chronicles: Newspapers
5. Indias First Newspaper was published in 1780 by an English man named James Augustus Hickey.
6. James Augustus Hickey took on the East India Company run by Warren Hastings
7. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: English attempt to spread their manifesto of Divide and Rule. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was English desperation to meet their goals and destroy the harmony shared among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
1919-2019: 100 years since the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
8. Where the press is free, people are free. Where the press is oppressed people are oppressed. When the press is gone people are gone.
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