Some 2000 years back, an Arab poet by the name of Ibn-e-Rasheed, famously remarked 'Let no man write poetry who does not remember 200,000 couplets of other poets'. Those were times of less chaos, less distraction and no Netflix. So let's scale the above to the tempo of our lives and allow poetry to punctuate our incessant existence.

This project, in part, is a personal pilgrimage to the confluence of Hindi, Urdu, English and Punjabi poetry. It's a self-disciplining exercise and a meditation as much as it is a celebration of words. While reading poetry has its own charm, the cadence and rhythm of language comes alive only during it's recital. So brings your baskets and wear your sunday smiles, from the ripe verses of the veterans to the carousing of the contemporaries, we have some poetry-picking and tasting to do!

Reciter/Curator- Bhavna Bhasin
Original work of the curator can be read at www.bhavnabhasin.com