urdu poetry
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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