Yavar Abbas, writer, broadcaster, journalist, film-maker comes from the home of Urdu- Lucknow in U.P. India. A love of classical Urdu literature was second nature to him, having been exposed to the poetry of one of the greatest practitioners of that art. Brought up in a devout and cultured Shia family Yavar heard his father recite ANEES with passion and panache every year during the month of Moharram. He is much in demand for his recitations of ANEES in Britain, America, the gulf countries and, of course, India.