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Home | World | Harvard To Host Lucknow Storytellers Qissa On Amir Khusrau

Harvard to host Lucknow storyteller’s ‘qissa’ on Amir Khusrau

By PTI
Published: Published Date - 04:03 PM, Mon - 5 October 20
The 'Worldwide Week' kicked off on October 2 and shall continue with events through October 9. The 'Worldwide Week' kicked off on October 2 and shall continue with events through October 9.

Lucknow: Lucknow’s popular storyteller Himanshu Bajpai is set to enthral a global audience with tales on Sufi poet-philosopher Amir Khusrau at a special event being organised by the US-based Harvard University. To be held on October 8, Bajpai’s session is titled “Khusrau’s River of Love: Cosmopolitanism and Inclusion in South Asian Traditions” and will be a part of the fourth annual ‘Worldwide Week’ at Harvard, according to the varsity’s invitation letter to him.

Bajpai, 33, will be accompanied by international singer Ali Sethi in the musical storytelling session interspersed with analysis and commentary by Harvard professor Ali Asani, stated The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute linked with the Harvard University.

“The ‘Worldwide Week’ will be delivered entirely virtually for fall 2020, allowing audiences to join in from all over the world and affording attendees even greater opportunities for participation,” it stated. The ‘Worldwide Week’ kicked off on October 2 and shall continue with events through October 9, it added.

Bajpai, a qissa-go, an author and expert in the Awadhi or ‘Lucknawi’ culture, said it was a matter of pride that the world renowned university has chosen him for the programme. “Through my art, I have also tried to highlight the great culture of Hindustan and especially my city Lucknow, and I am looking forward to doing it from the Harvard’s platform also,” he said.

“Be it the languages, the literature or the music of the Indian subcontinent, Amir Khusrau has made an unforgettable contribution in all fields,” he added.

Born in the Raja Bazar area of Old Lucknow, the storyteller is among the few who have had a major influence on making the traditional qissa-goi (story-telling) a full-time profession in recent years.

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