Urdu Markaz will organise a 'Kaifi Azmi Walk' in Madanpura, the once-bustling textile loom centre in the city on Sunday, January 12.
The walk, part of the 'Urdu-Marathi Tehzeeb Yatra', will guide walkers through Madanpura in central Mumbai, once a bustling textile loom centre. The area was also a literary and political hub, with the Progressive Writers' Movement, also known as the 'Taraqqi Pasand Tehreek', and Mohammad Ali Jinnah's Muslim League having based here.
Writers and poets like Ismat Chugtai, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Ali Sardar Jafri, Kaifi Azmi, and Manto have lived and worked here. The area was also a centre of the labour movement.
The walk will start from Urdu Markaz, Madanpura, and take participants to Mehboob Khan's Shipra Tabela, the Communist Party office, Hindustan Urdu Daily office at Nagpada, Khada Parsi monument, Manto s Adelphi Chambers residence on Clare Road, to Comrade Maqsood's Navjawan Party office in Madanpura, and culminating at Awami Adara Left commune.
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