Hallaj’s mystical utterance to Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary verse, South Asia’s poetic traditions have long intertwined ...

Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah ... poetic works in Urdu, especially in masnavis as it was almost ritualistic for a poet to begin a masnavi with the lines of hamd, the ...

In Urdu poetry the image of Lahore as a city of enchantment ... wrote also unforgettable lines describing Lahore as a messenger of piece. In his poem Dosti ka Haath (hand of friendship), he ...

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 ...

She brings the full force of her wide understanding to the study and biography of the Jnanpith-winning Urdu poet Shahryar (1936-2012) in Shahryar: A Life in Poetry ... stop of lines, the shapes ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ... The internal rhythm of the lines tends to reflect the poet’s command of the technical delicacies of the genre (of prose poetry). Dr. Shahid Ashraf, an eminent ...

Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages ... Mirza Ghalib started writing poetry at the age of 11. His verse is characterised ...