Mehfil-e-Kaapi — Kaapi, Culture, & Kalam. An evening of Dakhani and Urdu poetry with Sardar Saleem and F. M. Saleem at Kaapi & Karam, Charminar, on Sunday 19 July 2026, 5 to 6 PM.

Edition 01 · A new monthly series

Mehfil-e-Kaapi

Kaapi, Culture, & Kalam

Date
Sunday, 19 July2026
Time
5:00 – 6:00 PMPlease arrive by 4:45
Entry
Free₹299 cover charge, includes food
Where
Kaapi & KaramBeside Sardar Mahal, opp BSNL Office, Charminar

An evening of Dakhani poetry in the heart of the Old City, five minutes from Charminar. Mehfil-e-Kaapi is a new monthly stage for the language, its poets and its heritage — and this is the first one.

An Evening of Poetry

Two voices, live, for an hour. Come for the ghazals; stay for the argument about them afterwards, over kaapi.

Sardar Saleem, contemporary Urdu poet, performing at Mehfil-e-Kaapi Poet

Sardar Saleem

An acclaimed contemporary Urdu poet, celebrated for his ghazals and nazms.

F. M. Saleem, journalist, author and literary historian, at Mehfil-e-Kaapi Author & literary historian

F. M. Saleem

Journalist, author and literary historian, with over three decades of work in literature, culture and heritage.

Why we are doing this

Charminar has never been short of poetry. What the quarter has been short of is somewhere contemporary to sit and hear it — clean, comfortable, with parking, and a cup of filter kaapi in your hand. Kaapi & Karam is becoming a community space for art, culture, heritage and food in the Old City, and this series is central to that, not decoration on top of it.

Mehfil-e-Kaapi runs monthly. Dakhani first, always.

RSVP

Seating upstairs at K&K Private is limited and this one will fill. Message Neel to hold your place.

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Or call Neel — 99721 31903