The poetry of old photos
India, Sept. 18 -- At night, a large audience is seated in rows of chairs outdoors. The men are in suits and sherwanis. Behind them rises the newly built Ghalib Academy, tall windows aglow. Alongside stands the jagged stone wall of Urs Mahal. Poet Ghalib's marble tomb lies beyond it.
That Delhi evening survives in a cache of photographs brought to light this Wednesday afternoon at the said academy in Central Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. Librarian Bushra Begum found thousands of black-and-white photos crammed into cardboard folders in the so-called File Room, where they had lain untouched for decades. They record the academy's life from its opening in 1969, but their significance reaches beyond Ghalib and the institution bearing his name...
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