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PODCAST | Episode 1 | Kuchh Yaadein Kuchh Mulaqaatein: K A Abbas and Jawaharlal Nehru

Writer, journalist, filmmaker, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was above all, a communicator of ideas. As a student at Aligarh Muslim University, he boarded a train from Khurja to Aligarh just to talk to Jawaharlal Nehru in his railway compartment. The meeting sparked off a long association between Nehru and Abbas, one that Abbas describes as “My long love affair”. Today, when Nehru’s legacy is being framed on social media in an adverse light, we excavate some memories of Abbas’s meetings with Nehru, as described in Abbas’s autobiography. The incidents shed light on the passion and keen eye of Abbas, the journalist, while illuminating some lesser known and scarcely remembered facets of the personality of the first Prime Minister of India. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Pandit Nehru, the Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Memorial Trust in association with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, presents a series of podcasts on these meetings between Abbas and Nehru, in an effort to delve into a more personal remembrance of Jawaharlal Nehru. At the end of each episode, we present a poem selected from Amar Jyot, a compendium of poems that pay tribute to Nehru on his death in 1974. The episode is narrated by writer, director, playwright, actor and academician, Dr. Danish Iqbal, an award-winning filmmaker and an alumnus of the National School of Drama. He has directed several plays and has acted in major productions like The Antigone Project, Karna Warrior of the Sun, Andhayug, Aurangzeb, Othello, Gautam Buddha. He is presently working as Assistant Professor and Course Coordinator in Acting in AJKMCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Khurshid Ahmed Jami’s poem “Nehru” has been read by poet and activist, Gauhar Raza, former Chief Scientist Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The poem reads, “Woh Nehru jis ne saare desh ki jalti umangon ko/ haseen khwabon ki surat apni palkon par sajaya tha”. Sarangi Music: Yellow Tunes (https://www.yellowtunes.net/) Recording Studios: Musical Aroma (Mumbai), Sunshine studio (Delhi) Recordist: Dip Pal (Mumbai), Sanjay (Delhi) Director: Shashwita Sharma @shashwitasharma https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEW8... Sound Design: Gideon Gopi (RGF) Creative design: Manish Parjapati Story Translation: Reyaz Ahmad (KAAMT) Coordinator: Sukhpreet Kahlon, Ruth Zothanpuii (KAAMT) Mentor: Syeda Hameed (KAAMT)