Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Shehla Nawab, Tees Hazari Court City Poetry by The Delhi Walla - July 12, 2017July 12, 20171 Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She writes in verse though her field is ‘criminal matters’. Shehla Nawab works as a lawyer and lives as a poet. The Delhi Walla meets her one afternoon at her chamber in north Delhi’s Tees Hazari court. Ms Nawab is as much at home with romantic words such as ‘ishq’ and ‘mohabbat’ as she is with ‘matrimonial cruelty’ and ‘domestic violence’ — subjects she handles daily at work. “Every day I meet people wrecked by the crises of private life,” she says in her deeply melodic voice. “Unlike property disputes, these discords, even if violent, have to be addressed delicately.” While the themes in Ms Nawab’s poetry mainly consist of heartbreak and love,