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

But the Ashura of Muharram was not merely a day for the renewal of Islam only

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

Jafri began his career as a fiction writer, but later moved to poetry

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

The original translation of this poem is thus a sobering and familiar reflection on the state of the country