ALLAMA Iqbal’s first poetic collection in Urdu, Baang-i-Dara, was first published in 1924. But before Iqbal could bring out ...

A major Urdu poet who is acknowledged universally — he’s known as ‘khuda-e-sukhan’ (god of poetry) — his tercentenary went by with barely a few in the Urdu literary world remembering it.