Another edition of Larzish is here...And this time we read poems about conversations, real or imagined. Yes, the subject is guftagoo...
The kind that strips words from their veneer and gives them hurtful edges.

As Daag Dehelvi said, "ranj kii jab guftaguu hone lagi
aap se tum tum se tuu hone lagi."
Or as Javed Akhtar said about conversations that are tender, fragrant like blossoms
"ab tak hai koii baat mujhe yaad harf harf
ab tak main chun rahaa huun kisii guftaguu ke phuul."
And what about conversations that are full of words but say nothing?
As Ahmed Faraz put it, "lab-o-dahan bhii milaa guftaguu kaa fan bhii milaa magar jo dil pe guzaratii hai kah sakuu.N bhii nahiin."

So come and read your poems in Hindi, Urdu or English, about things that were said or you wish, could be unsaid.
About conversations that make or break connections.


Selected poets will be invited for this evening and featured followed by a discussion.

About Reema: 
Reema Moudgil has been a journalist since 1994 and has written for a host of newspapers and magazines on cinema, theatre, music, art, architecture and more.

Her first novel Perfect Eight was published in 2010. Since then it has been prescribed as a post-graduation text in the post-colonial Indian writing course in Jyothi Niwas College, Bangalore (for the last two and a half years) and two papers have been written on it.

She won an award for her writing/book from the Public Relations Council of India in association with Bangalore University,

Since 2010, she has edited Chicken Soup for the Soul-Indian Women and translated Dominican poet Josefina Baez’s book Comrade Bliss Ain’t Playing in Hindi. She is also an Urdu, English and Hindi RJ with Timbre media and as an artist has exhibited her work in India and the US. She raises money for animal welfare through her paintings.