The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. These words of L.P. Hartley kept resounding in my head as I went through The Last Musha’irah of Dehli, the English translation of Mirza Farhatullah Baig’s Urdu classic Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama.It is a Delhi, I did not recognise: cultured, civilized, poetic, literary, with a … Continue reading Forgotten Books: The Last Musha’irah of Dehli by Mirza Farhatullah Baig
There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
a hot cup of pleasure 