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Simply South on Instagram: "She was Chanda Bai before history knew her as Mah Laqa Bai. Poet. Performer. Thinker. A woman far ahead of her time. In 18th-century Hyderabad, Mah Laqa Chanda became the first woman to have a diwan of Urdu ghazals, Gulzar-e-Mah Laqa. A celebrated tawaif of the Deccan, she was also an artist, cultural force, and a woman consulted on matters beyond poetry. Her verses, rich with gul and bulbul refined the Urdu tradition and expanded what womanhood could look like. At Si