Siyasat aur Shayari: Barkha Reports from Poets’ Corner in Lucknow

If the rough and tumble of election campaigns is getting too much, relax a little with some shayari from Lucknow.

In Uttar Pradesh, the mother of all election battles, political discourse can get downright nasty. But then in the city of Nawabs comes the reminder that beyond the tu tu-mein mein there is the old TehZeeb, where the sharpest political comments can be made using wit and poetry instead of coarse finger-pointing. Join Barkha Dutt for a conversation with four of UPs most eminent poets to see how Siyasat and Shayari coexist. And then some.

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