a year for the past 15 years in Hyderabad. It began in 1996 when Hyderabadi Koakab Durry, who had started the institution in Delhi in the late 1960s, retired and returned to his hometown. Though he could find no patronage, it didn't stop the organization from taking off. "We told him not to worry about the money, but just start it off," says Dilnaz Baig, secretary and founder-member of Shaam-e-Ghazal in Hyderabad. Their solution lay in memberships and a number of "old Hyderabadis"; many whose families had lived in the city for a few generations, quickly signed up. It seemed natural that the Urdu ghazal find respect in the region of its birth-the Deccan.from The Wall Street Journal: mint: 'Wah', once again please
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