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  • Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India

    Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India

    Harish Trivedi
    · Dec 18, 2016 · 07:00 am