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Urdu poetry has several forms (borrowed from Persian poetry) e.g. ghazal, qasida, marsiya, rubai, etc The most popular of these is the ghazal, and I shall only discuss that here.
Thereafter, Urdu witnessed some quality poetry that synthesised the breadth of thought, profundity of feelings, and the sublimity of imagination.
In Urdu poetry the image of Lahore as a city of enchantment began appearing a bit later. Lahore emerged as a new metropolitan centre of Urdu poetry in the last quarter of 19th century.
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.
Trees were deeply entrenched in our poetic tradition, not merely as metaphors but often as central themes ...
In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.
Kharel also loves basketball and Urdu poetry. Guided by his mentor Syed Akbar Hyder, an associate professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is a fluent ...
In his keynote address, Shamim Tariq highlighted Firaq’s ghazals, poems, and rubais, stating that Firaq is the architect of modern ghazal. He continued to experiment with poetry, which is why ...
Progressive poets of the mid-1930s appeared to have been the first to gift gender-identity to the ever elusive beloved of classic Urdu poetry. What was a free floating metaphor was now placed in ...
Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably ...