​Mohlat: Pehla Sher

​A Poetry Workshop in association with Para

​Pause. Pick up the pen. Write your first ghazal, nazm, or poem — in three hours.

​You've been meaning to write. You just haven't had the time.

​Between the tabs, the pings, the endless research rabbit holes — the thought appears, floats for a moment, and disappears before you ever reach for a pen. The line that came to you at 2am. The feeling you couldn't explain to anyone, so you just carried it quietly.

​This is your Mohlat. Your grace period. Your permission slip to finally put it down on paper.

​Pehla Sher is an intimate three-hour poetry workshop for people who have never written a poem — or who wrote one once, long ago, and then quietly stopped. No experience needed. No performance required. Just you, a prompt, and a room full of people doing the same brave, tender thing for the first time.

​In association with Para

​We're partnering with Para: the AI research assistant that lives where you already are: WhatsApp, Slack, Notion, Telegram. Para skims through 8+ LLMs so you don't have to, bringing you the sharpest, most distilled research outputs without making you hunt across a dozen websites and tools.

​Para gives you your time back. Mohlat is what you do with it.

​Because what's the point of working smarter if you never make room for the things that make you feel alive? Para handles the research chaos. You come here and create.

​What Happens in the Room

​Not a lecture. Not a class. Something closer to a slow, guided unravelling.

​Over three hours, you'll be walked through the bones of Urdu and Hindi poetic forms: the ghazal, the nazm, the sher, without the jargon or the pressure. You'll write in real time, surrounded by others finding their words alongside you. By the end of the evening, something will exist on paper that didn't exist when you walked in. And it will be entirely, unmistakably yours.

• ​Craft made simple — Ghazal, Nazm, and free verse explained like a conversation, not a textbook. Hindi, Urdu, English, Hinglish — whatever language your feelings speak

• ​Guided writing prompts — Designed to gently loosen what's already inside you

• ​The Mehfil moment — An optional, zero-pressure sharing circle at the close. Read aloud, or simply listen

• ​Comment chits — Anonymous notes of warmth passed between participants, because every first attempt deserves to be witnessed kindly

• ​Chai & Guftagu — Because poetry and tea have never needed an introduction

​Who This Is For

​The one who saves lines in their Notes app and never shows anyone. The one who underlines things in books and thinks — I feel this, but I could never have written it. The one who has been waiting for the right time, the right space, the right kind of quiet.

​You don't need talent — or rather, you have it already, and this evening is simply where you'll meet it.

​This is a zero-judgment zone. Completely. Always.

​What's Included

• ​Workshop facilitation & printed poetry guide

• ​Guided prompts & writing exercises

• ​Comment chits

• ​Chai / Mocktails & Snacks (Veg & Non-Veg)

• ​Goodie Bag

• ​One poem — written by you, belonging to you

​What's Not

• ​Alcohol

• ​Cigarettes

• ​Any expectation that you already know how to do this

​How to Join

​Spots are intentionally limited. The room stays small so it can stay honest.

​RSVP Fee: ₹599 per person Each RSVP is for one person only. Your seat is confirmed only after payment. If selected, you'll receive a confirmation email with venue details and UPI payment link.

​"Lafzon mein woh baat kaho, jo aankhein kehte kehte reh jaati hain." (Say in words what the eyes keep trying — and failing — to express.)

​Come as you are. Leave with a poem that proves you were here.

​Are you ready for your Mohlat?