The brilliant era of the tawaifs is over.

When conservatism rules, and politics changes, culture dies

Umrao Jaan and Tawaifs

How many have seen the movie, ‘Umrao Jaan’? I have not seen the movie, but movie critics praised it for its depiction of tawaif culture

Those who have read my previous essays carefully may have noticed that I used the word ‘tawaif’ and referred to a dead tawaif. If not for this dead tawaif, I would not have explored Azamgarh’s histo…