"Kanhaiya Yaad Hai Kuchh Bhi Hamaari"
Courtesy: A Clubhouse event organized by Dastagoi Collective
Remembrance of Krishna in Sufi and Indo-Muslim poetry by Mahmood Farooqui
01:22 After welcoming the session, Udit Yadav recites a poem by Julius Naheef Dehlvi
03:27 Mahmood Farooqui starts speaking. (Audience questions in between)
About Mahmood Farooqui
Mahmood Farooqui is an Indian writer, performer and director. He specializes in a type of story-telling known as Dastangoi. Farooqui along with his uncle Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, noted Urdu poet and literary critic, revived Dastangoi, the ancient art of Urdu story telling. He was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Pursakar in 2010 for it.
His book Besieged: voices from Delhi 1857 was awarded the Ramnath Goenka for the best Non-fiction book of the year. This book is a translation of mutiny papers providing a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people who found themselves stuck during the revolt of 1857. He was also a researcher for The Last Mughal, a book by William Dalrymple.
