A celebration of our sensory perception of cities through reading, recitation, and rendition of poetry, prose, and other words (of self or other authors)

Cities have always been our muse and have nurtured relationships with their inhabitants. These relationships have often been celebrated, abhorred, questioned or romanticized in writings of many.
They have been described as lovers embracing all in a tight grip. They have been called mothers by some – for recreating personalities and perceptions. Some have just wondered about their glorious histories; others remain amazed at their ability to assimilate all kinds of people and cultures...

Some write about the pace, others about the race, still others extol the special place that the city has made in their hearts.

Over time, the physical to metaphysical realities of cities have been captured through oral legends, tales, prose, dohas, poetry, shayari, ghazals, rekhti and more.

From Ghalib to Italio Calvino; Charles Dickens to Khushwant Singh, there is a plethora of authors and poets who have personified the city and written about it in poetry or prose...fiction and nonfiction.

As Italo Calvino wrote in Invisible cities -
"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer, it gives to a question of yours", Sehreeti, through its .Shehr-e-Mehfil' series wishes to celebrate these delights and associations that
we have with cities (real or imaginary)