'People-work'

Last weekend, at the SADHO Poetry film fest, I saw more than thirty poetry films from over 20 countries – all packed into two evenings smelling of the impending Delhi winter. The longest poetry film was about 20 minutes and the shortest less than one minute. Poetry films! Not sure you get that – I didn’t as well, to start with. We are used to hearing poetry in Hindi films - when a character in the story has lost or won, when there is dismay in solitude or romantic delirium, in song and in dance.

"Love," said Phaedrus, "is the oldest of Gods, and one of the most powerful. Give me an Army made up of lovers and I can conquer the world." The  Phaedrus  ( / ˈ f iː d r ə s / ;  Greek :  Φαῖδρος ), written by  Plato , is a dialogue between Plato's main  protagonist ,  Socrates , and  Phaedrus , an interlocutor in  several dialogues . The  Phaedrus  was presumably composed around 370 BC, around the same time as Plato's Republic  and  Symposium .   Although ostensibly about the topic of  love , the discussion in the dialogue revolves around the art of  rhetoric  and how it should be practiced, and dwells on subjects as diverse as  metempsychosis  (the Greek tradition of  reincarnation ) and  erotic love .