Qayaamat: the end of the world. The day when the dead will be resurrected and held accountable for their actions. The day when God will judge each person and allow them to enter heaven or condemn them to hell. It is also the day when a lover will be seeking their long lost love. How can something as scary as this become a symbol of hope for the dejected? How does a poet use this imagery to get back at their cruel beloved?

About the podcast: Silsila Shayari Ka is a podcast about Hindi-Urdu poetry where we explore a specific poetic theme in each episode. We build a narrative around each theme by linking verses by different poets from different eras and put these verses in conversations with each other. We discuss how different poets invoke the same imagery to paint very different pictures. But most importantly, we do all of this by reading a lot of poetry.