Dr Zubair Farooq, a UAE national, is a well-known name in Indian and Pakistani literary circles for his love for Urdu poetry. A dermatologist and venereologist by profession, Dr Zubair has authored ...

A new kind of poetry began to be written under the influence of the progressives. It loosened the hold of tradition and opened the way to new subjects and styles. From the 1940s new experiments were ...

In the early years of post-Iqbal history of Urdu poetry, one finds two distinct streams flowing alongside each other — the two streams eventually mingling and generating powerful cross-currents. One ...