Akhil Katyal's "He was as arrogant as a Chattarpur farmhouse"

In the premiere episode, the poet in the darbaar is Akhil Katyal - reading his poems "He was as arrogant as a Chattarpur farmhouse" (English) and "Agar tum koi metro station hoti" (Hindi). The poems bookend Akhil's conversation with Poetry Darbaar host Lakshya Datta about where the words come from. A writer based in Delhi, Akhil's second book of poems 'How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross' won the Editor's Choice Award by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. He translated Ravish Kumar's 'Ishq Mein Shahar Hona' as 'A City Happens in Love' for Speaking Tiger. He teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University Delhi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hosted by Lakshya Datta, Poetry Darbaar brings you the poems, the shayaris, the kavitas, and the poets of India - celebrating the best of contemporary Indian poetry across its many languages - including Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, and many more. Through live readings and conversations with the poets themselves, this show will attempt to explore answers to one question: where do the words come from? This podcast is produced by Launchora, and the poems are curated by writer-editor-publisher Namita Gokhale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.