"That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India."

A good read from NYT on the popularity of #UrduPoetry in India

#Urdu #India #JashnERekhta #Poetry #Languages

https://nyti.ms/3jbYkWx

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