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Dastangoi: How Mahmood Farooqui revived the medieval art of Urdu storytelling

Dastangoi is an amalgam of two words – ‘Dastan’, which means story and ‘goi’ which means to narrate. The art had faded into oblivion after its last traditional proponent, Mir Baqar Ali, passed away in Delhi in 1928