Watch: The Bookstore That Brought Together Urdu’s Literary Greats

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Uploaded: 2018-07-29T11:15:41+05:30
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Description: Running a own small publishing house called 'Nai Kitab', which is tucked away in a quiet lane in Delhi's Jamia Nagar, 88-year old Shahid Ali Khan takes a stroll down memory lane and talks about his contributions to Urdu literature.

Running a own small publishing house called 'Nai Kitab', which is tucked away in a quiet lane in Delhi's Jamia Nagar, 88-year old Shahid Ali Khan takes a stroll down memory lane and talks about his contributions to Urdu literature.

Faiyaz Ahmad Wajeeh

watch the bookstore that brought together urdu’s literary greats

For 88-year old Shahid Ali Khan, Urdu literature has been a lifelong passion. His journey with Maktaba Jamia, a publishing house and bookstore, took him from Delhi to Mumbai in 1957, where he befriended renowned Urdu writers and poets like Sahir Ludhianvi, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Meena Kumari and Jagan Nath Azad.

Now running his own small publishing house called 'Nai Kitab', which is tucked away in a quiet lane in Delhi's Jamia Nagar, Khan takes us down memory lane and talks about his contributions to Urdu.

This article went live on July twenty-ninth, two thousand eighteen, at fifteen minutes past eleven in the morning.

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