Urdu Bazar Baithak #2: Dehlvi Nigaar-khaana
Sun, 04 Oct
|Mushk Cafe, Jama Masjid
Three portraits of Old Delhi in one morning, its people through Ashar Haque's qissebazi, its literature through Mahtab Alam's Jamia Maktaba Ki Kahani, and its streets through Rajinder Arora's Purani Delhi. A Sunday breakfast club on a rooftop the city can sit in together.
Time & Location
04 Oct 2026, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm IST
Mushk Cafe, Jama Masjid, Urdu Bazar, Above Qutub khana- Anjuman-e-taraqqi-e-urdu, Jama Masjid, Old Delhi
About the event
Nigaar-khaana, a gallery, a house of portraits. Dehlvi Nigaar-khaana hangs three portraits of Old Delhi side by side for one Sunday morning, the city as told through its people, its literature and the ones who keep it running on the street.
Urdu Bazar Baithak is a Sunday morning culture club conceived by Abu Sufiyan Khan, a rooftop the city can sit in together. The morning opens as guests arrive to chai, bun maska, puri tarkari aur halwa Nagori, laid out unhurried, before the three portraits of the morning begin.
Purani Delhi: Sajha Sanskriti Ka Safar
Rajinder Arora
The first portrait is of the city that runs on its streets. Reading from his book, published by LeftWord Books with a foreword by Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Rajinder Arora brings alive the artisans, rickshaw pullers and rehdi-patri walas he has spent years photographing, the ones who share these lanes with us every day…
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Sale ends
04 Oct, 12:00 pm IST
(inclusive of breakfast)
₹2,500.00
+₹125.00 GST
+₹65.63 ticket service fee
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