He said once a friend had commented that there was nothing in Urdu poetry except the glorification of the beloved. This, he said, and reading a Wali Dukanni couplet, led him to investigate other ...

A famed and eminent career in Urdu poetry ... of his lyrical poetry, his death will e widely mourned, because in him the weak and the poor of the land have lost a friend. Born in a village near ...

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A poetry lover stabbed his old friend to death during a dispute over whether verse or prose is the greater artistic form. A former teacher, 53, was visiting Yury Nikitkin, 66, in the town of Irbit ...