urdu poetry
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How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
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‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
Rakhshanda Jalil
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How Mirza Ghalib’s ghazals traveled to America and became a part of the country’s poetic tradition
Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
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‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women
Scroll Staff
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
Nikhil Govind
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Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics
Malini Nair
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Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday
Anand V Taneja
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He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year
Ibne Safi
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Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas
Wasi Manazir
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How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature
Asif Farrukhi
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How Karbala has influenced writers and poets in South Asia for centuries
Suleman Akhtar
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This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history
Rana Safvi
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Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet
Baran Farooqi
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From the poet of ‘We Sinful Women’, two poems for the times
Kishwar Naheed
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The Carnatic vocalist who sings Urdu blues
Manish Gaekwad