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Javed Akhtar addressing the audience during his session at Metaphor

Archive · Edition X · 2022

Edition X

Ten Years of Metaphor

17–18 December 2022 · Lebua, Mall Avenue

Ten years, and still arguing.

A decade, marked at Mall Avenue. Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi launched a book; a room of about four hundred people found out what an Urdu couplet does to a Sunday afternoon.

On the programme

17 December

Launch and discussion

Dhanak & Dayera

Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi in conversation with Atul Tiwari, at Lebua.

The BaradariPoetry

18 December

Heritage Hype: Stories of Revival

What actually happens after a monument is 'restored'.

ChaupalHistory & Heritage

18 December

चूल्हा चादर पहाड़ीवाणी और कविता

Hill dialect, domestic labour, and the poetry that comes out of both.

The CourtyardPoetry

6 photographs