Finding Verses in Mir’s Charbagh | Workshop | Method Delhi | 16th Nov

Method Delhi, along with DilliPoetry, invites you to a unique poetry writing walk-workshop through Gul — a surreal garden of symbolism. Designed as a Mughal charbagh, once a space for leisure, pleasure, poetry, and politics, the garden also tells the story of its transformation — as manicured lawns replaced orchards, trees were felled, and lovers were barred from these communal spaces. Conversation and poetry gave way to stifled voices, and much of its plurality faded.

Built entirely from post-industrial metal scrap, discards, and found objects by Wolf Studio, the garden blooms as a fragile promise — of a world remade with tenderness and care to withstand the fraught times of the present. Through its altars, pavilions, and fields of poppies and roses, you are accompanied by the resonant, looming shadow of Mir Taqi Mir, Khuda-e-Sukhan (God of Poetry) himself.

This Sunday, we bring the garden alive with sonorous, self-written verses of our own. The two-hour workshop proposes that poetry cannot truly be taught or learned — yet conditions can be created where both are irrelevant, and a verse may still appear to dent the blank page. Together, we will cultivate those conditions through reflection, writing exercises, and playful intermingling of mediums — with Mir as our guide.

Designed for both beginners and practicing poets alike.

Rachit is a poet and the founder of Dillipoetry—a literary platform known for its thematic and experimental poetry walks, workshops, and programs. He also serves as Creative Head at Youth Alliance, designing transformational leadership programs for young social leaders across India.

With over a decade of experience in the social sector, Rachit has worked on diverse issues, and his writings have appeared in 20+ literary platforms and anthologies. His recent series “Memories of Yami”—poems tracing the Yamuna River through Delhi—was published by Down To Earth magazine.

Guided by a vision to de-pedestalize poetry, he has led programs exploring climate, neurodivergence, architecture, gender, and resistance. He has performed twice at BBC Contains Strong Language (Leeds 2023, Bradford 2025), at The French Institute of India, Goethe-Institut, and Alliance Française, and featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. He is currently Lead Poet & Advisor to O.P. Jindal University’s program We Are Meant to Sing as One.

Dillipoetry is a literary platform dedicated to de-pedestalizing poetry—making it accessible, experiential, and embodied. Over the past three years, Dillipoetry has curated and hosted more than 100+ poetry walks and workshops on themes such as the climate emergency, queer ecology & intimacies, poetry of resistance, romanticism, identity, and our relationship with the natural world. Collaborating with Ashoka University, Goethe Institut, O.P Jindal University, Alliance Française, LGBTQIA+ Centre, French Institute India, Naz Foundation, The Queer Muslim Project, Nazariya Foundation among many others. 

In this time, Dillipoetry has cultivated an intimate community of over a hundred poets across the city, creating spaces of beauty, reflection, and dialogue—spaces where poetry becomes a way of witnessing, questioning, and reimagining the world.