A multilingual reading in Urdu, English and Hindi of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some contemporary newspaper reports and essays that provide glimpses of the lived experiences of the city since the ‘ghadar’ of 1857 to present times. The readings are accompanied by images of original manuscripts, letters, buildings and the people who wrote them

 

Presented by Saman Habib and Sanjay Muttoo