Umrao Jan Ada

“Lutf hai kaun si kahani mein, / Aap beeti kahoon ya jag beeti…” (“What story will more absorbing be, / How fared the world in which I lived/ Or what fate hath held in store for me?”) Once upon a time a courtesan and a writer met. She, the pulse of Nawabi Lucknow, the inimitable Umrao Jan Ada, one o...

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