Areeb Usmani on Jaun Elia, AMU, and the Ghazal | Rekhta Room | Season 1 | Episode 2

Areeb Usmani on Jaun Elia, AMU, and the Ghazal | Rekhta Room | Season 1 | Episode 2
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He was a professional fast bowler until one injury ended it all. Then he found poetry.

In this Rekhta Room session, young poet Areeb Usmani talks to Faisal Fehmi about a journey most people wouldn't expect. He grew up in Mau and Azamgarh, with a father who taught Geography at AMU and wrote poetry in secret, and a mother who carries thousands of Urdu couplets in her memory.