Desire in Urdu and Sufi Poetry

Performed By: Abhay Tole Trivedi, Aditya Ramdasi, Anirban Bhatterjee, Debarghya Mukherjee, Dhruv Aryan, Diyakshi Chandran, and Swayam Nath

Accompanying a panel discussion by Wafa Hamid, Amit Julka and Madhavi Menon, the kathak-qawwali performance immersed into the rich tradition of Sufi and Urdu poetry, the panel explored themes of homoerotic ambiguity, the politics of desire and the relevance of these in the contemporary world.

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