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Parveen Shakir PP (pronounced [ˈpəɾʋiːn ʃɑːkɪɾ]; 24 November 1952 – 26 December 1994) was a Pakistani poet and civil servant of the government of Pakistan.She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature.
"Dastur" (Urdu: دستور) is an Urdu nazm (poem) written by the Pakistani poet Habib Jalib. [1] This poem is also known as "Main Nahi Manta". [2] It comes under the resistance poem category because of its relevance and subject. It is written as a voice of protest to a law introduced by General Ayub Khan in 1962, in Pakistan. [3]
Most of Shakir's ghazalyaat contain five to ten couplets, often - though not always - inter-related. Sometimes, two consecutive couplets may differ greatly in meaning and context [For example, in one of her works, the couplet 'That girl, like her home, perhaps/ Fell victim to the flood' is immediately followed by 'I see light when I think of you/ Perhaps remembrance has become the moon'].
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Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . According to Naseer Turabi, there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d. 1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938 ...
Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. [1] He was the son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, who were both Urdu poets.
Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 in Gwalior. [8] His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet. [9] His paternal grandfather Muztar Khairabadi was a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was a religious scholar of Islam who declared the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ...
His poems are also notable for their rich imagery and in this respect, his contribution to Urdu poetry can hardly be overstated. [8] Azmi's first collection of poems, Jhankar was published in 1943. In 1944, he wrote a poem Ab Agli Id Ek Azad Pakistan Main Hogi — one of the works written by leading Progressive Writers of Urdu campaigning for ...