आज पता चला कि फ़्राँस में #मिर्ज़ाग़ालिब के नाम से वाइन बनती है। 🍇✍🏼🍷
मैं और बज़्म-ए-मय से यूँ तिश्ना-काम आऊँ
गर मैं ने की थी तौबा साक़ी को क्या हुआ था @Rekhta
This letter by Ghalib suggests that French wines, including champagne, were available back then. 🍷🤪🍾
👉🏼 books.google.fr/books?id=9mtpZ…
But this other letter shows that he preferred Indian wines. 🤨 (Ghalib jokingly called himself half-Muslim because he would drink wine but not touch pork!)
👉🏼 books.google.fr/books?id=6b89D…
The film is in both #हिंदी and #English, so let’s mention these two first:
🙏🏼 HI,EN>EN Sheela Sijin Matthews
🙏🏼 HI,EN>HI शालिनी शुक्ला Shalini Shukla 3/10
This thread 👇🏼 explains why I am not convinced by the translation. There is a huge difference between a bigha and a hectare, and 2 ha would not make you a poor farmer. 2/5
In 1896, self-made entrepreneur Charles Pathé (1863–1957) created a film factory in @VincennesVille near Paris. @fondation_pathe 1/4
It seems that Dadasaheb Phalke received some training there (in 1912?). 2/4
Another connection between Phalke and France: he had his epiphany (and his inspiration for religious films) when he saw la Vie du Christ (1906) by French director Alice Guy (1873–1968) in Bombay. 3/4
Dr Hasan Manzar’s “translation” can be found on @Rekhta. Two editions are available. This one 👇🏼 (New Delhi: Modern Publishing House, 2002) I found had a better print quality. 3/n rekhta.org/ebooks/mangal-…