Shabana Azmi reads Tabish Khair’s story on the Virus Crisis as part of Decameron 2020
Due to a full teaching schedule at Aarhus and other commitments, Tabish Khair will not be accepting any new requests to do events outside Denmark in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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Outside the walls you crashed with Danish words,
I hold a match between finger and thumb;
Its burning opens no door, no passage.
I can almost make sense in your language:
I’m no bewitched mermaid; I have my tongue,
And poems flutter in its cage like birds.