10. Kulliyat-i-Zauq: collected works of one of the maestros of Urdu poetry and idiomatic expression. 11. Sahr-ul-bayan: one of the best Urdu masnavis, composed by Mir Hasan. 12. Marasi-i-Anees ...

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His first collection of Urdu poetry was published in 1969 ... He’d say ‘Hosh walon’ was one of his best ghazals. He was happy it was incorporated in an Aamir Khan film,” reminisced ...

“Poets and literary figures are shying away from political comment because today everything is given a communal colour,” said Urdu poet Munnawar Rana. NAGPUR: “Poets and literary figures are ...

A few months ago, at the launch of a book of Urdu poems—Hukm E Safar Diya Tha Kyon by Shantiveer Kaul—a poet in his mid-60s said he rarely got a chance to attend such events now because “ab ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M.

the Urdu poet has always spoken for qaumi yakjahati and muttahida tehzeeb, on communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures. The search yielded delightful results. I found vast amounts of poetry ...

Drawing on the traditions of Arabic and Persian poetry, the classical writers of the Urdu ghazal frequently employed interconnected metaphorical systems. Iqbal’s response to this garden often ...

Shair-ul-ajam: critical analysis of Persian poetry by Shibli Naumani ... Kulliyat-i-naat: by Mohsin Kakorvi, one of the best naat-writers of Urdu. 30. A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi ...