By Pervaiz Alam Once, The Independent, British daily, described Gideon Levy as 'the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic’. However, there are millions of people...
By Pervaiz Alam Once, The Independent, British daily, described Gideon Levy as ‘the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic’. However, there are millions of people all over the world who admire him for his courage as they read his opinion pieces published in Haaretz. I’m one of them. It was […]
By Pervaiz Alam Back after 10 years with a new novel ‘The Girl with the Seven Lives’, Vikas Swarup unravels the mystery behind his success as a novelist in conversation with me on Cine Ink podcast “London Varta”. There’s a huge excitement in the fiction world. Reportedly, the new book is filled with the same […]
London. “No, I do not ever want to write a book about my working with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This is what I promised to Dr Singh when I saw how betrayed he felt when his former media adviser Sanjaya Baru’s book (Accidental Prime Minister: Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh) came out,” says Pankaj […]
Cine Ink, London-based hub of podcasts, launched a new series “London Vārta: Freedom of Speech” on Saturday, 27 April, 2024. The series interviews renowned journalists and television anchors who are finding it increasingly difficult to question the govt of the day in India while remaining in the mainstream media. Some of them have launched their […]
Blog by Loveleen Kacker Spring is in the air. Snowdrops and daffodils are underfoot, the bare branches of trees dotted with tentative buds that will become new leaves and the sun is peeking bashfully behind the last of the water laden winter skies. Nature is bursting with the sap of new life and it was […]
London, UK, 31 August, 2022- The Cine Ink UK has announced a new podcast series entitled ‘Ganjay Farishtay’ based on Saadat Hasan Manto’s sketches. The series in Urdu will be presented by broadcaster Pervaiz Alam. The first episode of the series ‘Ismat Chughtai’ would be available on all major podcast networks from Friday, 2 September, […]
London. Cine Ink will be providing extensive coverage of the ninth edition of JLF London starting at the British Library from 10th – 12th June, 2022. The JLF London programmes will be held at three venues; Darbar Theatre, Mughal Courtyard and Pizza Pavilion, all part of the British Library premises, near Kings Cross in London. […]
I never imagined, one day, a podcast on ‘Greed’ would haunt me for being a ‘Chatori’. Okay, I come from a family in Delhi where most of us would exclaim ‘Bring it on’ at the mere sight of Kebabs on the grill, followed by naans, lassi, falooda. This has been a feature very intricate to […]
By Anjani Chadha I heard the word phobia for the first time when I was in fourth class. The protagonist of my english lesson had acrophobia. The professor explained how we use -phobia as a suffix to name different types of fears and for a good 30-45 minutes I was mesmerised. It was state-of-the-art to realise […]
LONDON- 25 June, 2021. Cine Ink, the London-based hub of digital programmes, has announced a new podcast series in Urdu, Musafir Ki Diary, a travelogue written in 1938 by India’s renowned writer, journalist and filmmaker, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, from 28th June, 2021. Musafir Ki Diary, hailed as the first modern travelogue written in Urdu but […]