The city once known for its resplendent culture of mushairas and poets would be reduced to one strewn with bodies of the dead. From a royal capital, its status was relegated to that of a provincial town. The city recovered itself only after 1911 and more so after Independence.
The four-day event, that celebrated the tercentenary of the Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, traced the ways in which the idea of Delhi, as a political, cultural and civilisational hub, has evolved through the ages
As part of 300-year celebrations of the legendary Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir, the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Hind recently launched the complete Urdu translation of Mir’s autobiography.