Скачать или смотреть Sohail Hashmi in conversation with Saif Mahmood on 'Satire and Humour in Hindustani Literature'

About the Speaker: Sohail Hashmi is a true ‘Dilliwalah.’ An academic, historian, academician and filmmaker, Hashmi is well-known for immersive heritage walks that he conducts around the capital. He is a historian, activist, academician and film-maker and also he is a leading authority on Delhi’s history and is specifically known for his Delhi Heritage Walks for children and adults.

Dr Saif Mahmood is a New Delhi-based author, poetry and literature critic, commentator, translator, rights activist, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. Founder of the South Asian Alliance for Literature, Art & Culture (SAALARC), Saif has won particular acclaim for his passionate recitations of Urdu poetry, especially of such progressive and contemporary poets as Faiz, Majaz, Sahir and Jaun Elia. His writings on literature and law and his English translations of Urdu prose and verse have appeared in several prestigious Indian and international publications.