Bayaad-e-Ghalib (Remembering Ghalib) will be held at Calcutta Madrasah, Aliah University, in Taltala, to commemorate the 190th year of the poet’s visit to Calcutta. Ghalib stayed in Calcutta from February 21, 1828, to October 1, 1829. The festival will include seminars, an art exhibition, plays and mushairas (poetry congregations) based on the life and times of Ghalib. Five plays with Ghalib as the central theme will be staged in the evening — the first in Asansol and the rest at Calcutta Madrasah. On Sunday, school students will be taken on a tour of places where Ghalib had stayed on his visit to Calcutta.

Source: The Telegraph February 20, 2020 22:30 UTC