Episode 1
The pilot. Why a mortgage renewal deserves a ghazal, and what Ghalib would say about variable rates.
چائے چیٹ کرونیکلز
Shayari for the mortgage-renewal generation.
Classical Urdu poetry meets modern money, careers, and Canadian life — recited, riffed on, and footnoted. One host, a mic, and seven centuries of couplets to raid.
The pilot. Why a mortgage renewal deserves a ghazal, and what Ghalib would say about variable rates.
Akbar Allahabadi roasted the hypocrites of his century. We borrow his template for ours.
Faiz wrote about waiting. We all know that feeling — the queue at Service Canada, the immigration tracker, the offer letter that never comes.
Canadian economist roots, Urdu poetry heart. By day, the numbers; by night, the couplets. This podcast is where both halves of the brain finally get to talk to each other — in Urdu, over chai, with footnotes.
New episodes, behind-the-scenes notes, and the occasional couplet that didn't make the cut.