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The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at the Royal Society of Arts on March 29, 2010, [ 1 ] and aired on PBS Frontline in the United States on April 20.
Bacha posh (Pashto: باشا بوش, lit. 'dressed up as a boy', Dari : بچه پوشی ) [ 1 ] is a practice in Afghanistan in which some families will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy.
The Underground Girls of Kabul: in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan is a book by Jenny Nordberg that documents the bacha posh of Afghanistan. Bacha posh translates from Dari as "dressed up like a boy." It is a term used in Afghanistan and in this book to describe children who are born as girls but are dressed up, raised and treated ...
Bacha may refer to: . Bacha (surname) Bacha (given name) Leucocasia gigantea, also known as "bạc hà" in Vietnam, a Southeast Asian vegetable; Bacha bazi (sometimes known as "bacchá"), a Central Asian tradition of keeping boys as concubines as women and girls are forbidden to perform for men
Bait Bazi (Urdu: بیت بازی) is a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry played by composing verses of Urdu poems. The game is common among Urdu speakers in Pakistan and India . It is similar to Antakshari , the Sistanian Baas-o-Beyt , the Malayalam Aksharaslokam and, more generally, the British Crambo .
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Baazi Kiski is an Indian game show which premiered on Zee Tv on 2 September 2001. [1] The game show is hosted by actor Ashutosh Rana, and involves a gender-war between men and women for a total cash prize of 21,000 rupees per contestant. The show replaced Zee TV's game show Sawaal Dus Crore Ka, which did not meet audiences expectations. [2]
Habibullah Kalakani (Dari: حبیبالله کلکانی , 19 January 1891 – 1 November 1929), derogatively [6] called "Bacha-ye Saqao" [7] [8] [9] (also romanized Bachai Sakao; literally son of the water carrier), was the ruler [note 1] of Afghanistan from 17 January [note 2] to 13 October 1929, as well as a leader of the Saqqawists.