This episode of Cine Ink Podcast Series Kitaab Kaulum features London-based Urdu poet, Hilal Fareed and his latest collection of Urdu poetry Pyar Ki Boli Bol (Speak The Language Of Love) in Devanagari script.

An MS in Orthopaedic Surgery from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU Aligarh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Hilal Fareed works as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon both in the NHS and in the Private Sector. In conversation with broadcaster Achala Sharma, he shares his passion of writing Urdu poetry and recites his latest Kalaam. Pyar Ki Boli Bol has been published by Vani Prakashan. His first collection of Poems Jab Diyon Ke Sar Uthe (When The Lamps Lightened Up), published in 2011, was received well both by Urdu and Hindi poetry lovers.

With this episode of Kitaab Kaulum, we launch ‘Book Club’, a new segment within the podcast, featuring our listeners and their favourite books. Delhi based photographer and short story writer, Prerna Jain talks about her all time favourite book, Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw.