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‘Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry’
In his keynote address, Shamim Tariq highlighted Firaq’s ghazals, poems ... contributions to the language, it was Urdu that made him famous. Prominent Hindi litterateur Prof Awadhesh Pradhan ...
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Delhi poet Mir Taqi Mir called Lucknow ghazals mere descriptions of ‘kissing and licking’, not poetry
If the lofty Urdu ghazal used the normative masculine Rekhta ... new generation of Lucknawi born and bred poets, the most famous of whom would be Shaykh Imam Baksh ‘Nasikh’ and Khwaja Haider ...