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Watch: Writer Aatish Taseer reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’ in lockdown

Taseer said that ‘Kubla Khan’ was the first poem that was ever read to him as a child.

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Apr 05, 2020 · 09:50 am
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I read Coleridge’s poem for @airmailweekly’s Uplifting Words series. It was the first poem ever read to me as a child, during a black out in Delhi, by @toplin2207

A post shared by Aatish Taseer (@aatishalitaseer) on Mar 26, 2020 at 10:19am PDT

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