Kavita Seth interacted with Dr Bashir Badr last year when she visited the ailing poet in Bhopal. "He is bed-ridden and complains of dementia. He can barely talk and doesn't remember his own poetry," laments Seth, who will revisit the Urdu writer's work for the January 18 edition of Main Kavita Hoon.

With her recurrent music series, Seth aims to put the spotlight on a poet, and those creations of the artiste that deserved more attention than it was destined to receive. "The motive is to be a bridge between music listeners and those poems that have been forgotten in old books. Often, people don't know who has written a ghazal. Some of Dr Bashir's verses are so [defining] that they are more prominent than the entire ghazal," she says, before reciting a few of them for us.