Saif Mahmood, Chinmayi Tripathi, Nishtha Gautam | Faiz & Firaq The Aesthetics and Politics of Poetry

Faiz & Firaq The Aesthetics and Politics of Poetry: Saif Mahmood, Chinmayi Tripathi and Nishtha Gautam
Saif Mahmood is the author of the recent bestseller Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets. He is a poetry and literature critic, commentator, translator and rights activist. An advocate of the Supreme Court of India, holding a doctorate in Constitutional Law in South Asia, he frequently appears before superior courts in India as well as in international and domestic tribunals. Founder of South Asian Alliance for Literature, Art & Culture, Dr. Mahmood’s works have appeared in various prestigious publications and his English translations of Urdu poets have received critical acclaim.
Chinmayi Tripathi is a singer and plays the dotara. Tripathi is also the composer and founder of a music and poetry project. She also writes poetry and short stories for a new podcast series.
Nishtha Gautam is Opinions Editor at The Quint. Before moving to full-time journalism, she taught English Literature at the University of Delhi for eight years. She observes literary and cultural space with keenness, in tandem with her interest in politics and foreign affairs.
Multidimensional poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar inhabits a stellar space between popular poetry, Bollywood stardom and the classical traditions of Hindustani and Urdu poetry. In a freewheeling conversation with author, editor and advocate Saif Mahmood and journalist Nishtha Gautam, he speaks of art, freedom, the role of popular culture and the nature of creativity in the context of his own writing and life learnings.
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