Three New Indian Classics || Book Launch and Qawwali with Rehmat-e-Nusrat

Murty Classical Library of India and Harvard University Press, in collaboration with Tales of City, invite you to celebrate the launch of three new Indian classics at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

A poet's defence of his art, a book of living and dying, and the oldest surviving literature in Marathi share one stage, and the evening ends in music with a performance by Rehmat-e-Nusrat.

The Books

Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders: In Defense of Persian Poetry

Amir Khusraw Dihlavi, edited and translated by Alyssa Gabbay

In 1294, Amir Khusraw wrote a preface to a collection of his poems, and it became celebrated in its own right. Part manifesto and part memoir, it defends poetry against its critics among the religious scholars and claims a central place for Persian poets in India.