Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ... started writing poetry at the age of 11. His verse is characterised by sadness, the result of an often ...

A ghazal will have a verse about happiness and the next will be about sadness ... “Hali and Shibli rescued Urdu poetry. They re-conceived Urdu poetry and took it towards a transformation ...

in sadness and in hope, to our broken present. Like T S Eliot in The Waste Land, she uses the fragments of old poetry to “shore against my ruins”. The phrase “labour of love” hints at how ...

Her subsequent collections, including 'Sad Barg' (One Hundred Leaves), 'Khood-Qalami' (Self ... Parveen Shakir contributed a unique and fresh style to Urdu poetry, earning her accolades and ...