My parents nurtured the love (and my mom is a writer) – so I grew up on Urdu and Farsi poetry I only half understood. Thanks to my bookish parents, I was raised on Wordsworth, Iqbal, and Rumi, and took pleasure in reading, and even memorizing my favourite poems. I still remember ...
For those of us who regularly seek solace in poems, acts of terrorism can be particularly hard to deal with, because (the deluge of poetry written in the aftermath of 9/11 notwithstanding) there just doesn’t seem to be enough good poetry about living with terrorism. In times like these,...
For the most part, the history of Urdu poetry in India is the story of Urdughazal, which has been the favourite of both poets and their audiences in every period. A short lyric, with prosodic requirements of both metre and rhyme,ghazaldemands great skill and thought from the poet, for it...