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Once a poet was emperor of India. Bahaudar Shah,
whose pen name of 'Zafar' is inseparable from our recall of him, presided
over Delhi in a time of acute transition, his pen a testimonial to his
times. Under his patronage the walls of the Red Fort reverberated with his
sound of mushairas and poetry was discussed keenly in every home. Poets of
the rank of Ghalib, Zauq, Dagh, Mir and Mumin textured the fabric of
cultural life. Arguably those were declining times, but why then is it
that 150 years later theirs are the words we instinctively grope for when
we need to voice our profoundest thoughts?
In Many Voices commemorates the first anniversary of Delhi Poetree, a
movement with the objective of bringing thirty nights of poetry in a month
to Delhi and of edifying a living treasure of a hundred contemporary
poets. It combines seasoned voices like those of poets Keki N Daruwalla,
Tarannum Riyaz and Amit Dahiyabadshah with fresh new poetic voices.
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