Poetic License

Dr Ujan’s courageous action confirms her as a great daughter of a great writer

This collection established Momand as one of the most influential and greatest Pashto poets of the 20th century

Amrita Pritam published more than 100 books over the course of her life

The corpus of Urdu literature is rich with commemorations of Karbala and odes to its martyrs

Kashmiri is regarded among the very few prominent poets who gave a new colour to Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal

Rahman led Bangladesh for only four years prior to his ouster from power and subsequent assassination

The ghazal is a revelation of the poet’s own awareness of his approaching death

Habib Jalib has written numerous poems on Palestine and the Lebanese Civil War

The poem compares Pfau to a blue-eyed sparrow arriving in a veritable desert

The beauty of Riaz’s satire is that she does not turn prescriptive, as many of her contemporaries often do