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Urdu poets often write their verses not in a direct... Update Consent. Mon ... and it contains the name or pseudonym (called takhallus)of the poet. Thus, in the above poem, the poet’s name, Faiz ...
You name it, I can cook it. And so I have a great affinity for Pakistani culture and the great Urdu poets.’ ‘You read Urdu poetry?’ ‘Absolutely.
Beyond her celebrated image as the “Tragedy Queen” of Hindi cinema, Meena Kumari was an accomplished poet. She wrote under ...
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...
Her male-sounding name notwithstanding, British writer George Eliot (1819-1880) was a woman. Born Mary Ann Evans, she was a novelist, poet, translator and one of the leading litterateurs of the ...
Sandeep Gupte, growing up in multi-cultural Bhopal, fell in love with Urdu. He was just 16. The romance continues even after more than three decades and moving ...
Turning to more everyday images of birds in Urdu poetry, a younger contemporary of Jurat, Nazir Akbarabadi (d. 1830) was known to be a people’s poet, or a poet of the bazaar, because he wrote ...
Following her death in 1972, a collection of poetry by the acclaimed Indian cinema actress titled “Tanha Chand” was published ...
Urdu poets also use the name of the poet in the last stanza among other details. "Since Iam not conversant in the Urdu language, I act as a middleman for languages such as Urdu, English to Arabic.
Top names at Urdu poetry session today. DUBAI - Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) is organising an Urdu Mazahiya Mushaira at the Pakistan Sports and Recreation Club in Dubai today at 8.30pm.