"I Shall Hear the Nightingale"

Readings by Afsana Murad

Afsana Murad will read from the finest of Urdu poetry selected and transliterated by Sardar Khushwant Singh and Kamna Prasad with relevant excerpts from his book Delhi. The poets include Meer Taqi Mir, Mohammed Rafi Sauda, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq, Mriza Ghalib, Momin Khan Momin, Mirza Khan Dagh Dehlvi, Akbar Hussain Akbar Allahabadi, Shaad Azimbadi, Mohammed Iqbal, Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz