'<i>Raag Darbari</i> is not widely read in Delhi society and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who had heard of it or its author at the average dinner party...'
When spoken, a language is mainly practical. To transcend into art, it must be written, its words shaped into poems, stories, and plays. So can written Urdu, once the medium of Delhi's literary artists, still be found in the city?
The archaeologists have dug up the past—they could bury it too...
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