Mehmaan Nawazi

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Re: Mehmaan Nawazi

@muqawwee123

BTW the typical autaaq / chopaal concept has also died due to private drawing rooms, where only people from same circle can be entertained. Chopaal and otaaqs were more open places for general public

yes, agree…we called them ‘chaupaal’, 'baiThak, ‘darvaaza’ yaa ‘baGhal’…i those baiThaks/chaupaals, young people usually didn’t sit…they had their own baiThakas…there were a few in my village [by the railway tracks]. i remember, this old man in my village had a baiThakaa where there was a transistor radio which blared BBC Urdu Service New and older folks gathered there listened to the news religiously. aaahhhh, those days are history now!