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Rahat Indori is a modern Urdu poet who is famed for his pithy couplets. Here is some of his Indian poetry.

Amad Nadeem Qasmi is an Urdu poet. In this poem - Kaun Kehta Hai Ki Maut Aayega... the rhymes are breathtaking.

10 Urdu poets, as part of my theme for the A2Z Blogging Challenge 2025. Read poems by Ghalib, Faiz, and other greats.

Professor Anand (Vice Provost for Advances in Education at Harvard, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration) talked about how...

Living and Dying in a Foreign Tongue The language that was at home in the ear and seeped into our blood with the thread of grandma’s...

Before You Came Before you came, things were as they should be: the sky was the dead-end of sight, the road was just a road, wine merely...

Sitaron se Age/Beyond the Stars beyond the stars are even more worlds there are still even more tests of passion these expanses are not...

Nature’s fountainhead Say you bury me alive. I will become a green grass-field and lie outspread, a fertile land. You may set me on fire;...

Because I Cannot Sleep Because I cannot sleep, I make music at night. I am troubled by the one, whose face has the color of spring...

GANDHI JI Gandhi ji would preach— Non-violence and walk around with a stick in his hands. THE BUILDING There is no worker, but in the...

Patta Patta, Buta Buta Haal Hamara Jaane Patta patta, boota boota, haal hamaaraa jaane hai Every leaf and every shrub here knows of my...

Women By Dr K. Sachidanandan One woman walks in a hurry sobbing, A house with faded paint on her head. One woman goes on waiting at A...

The Fiends that Fetter Us sister… still many more breasts for us to mould as if from clay in this era when living breasts are bitten by...

A Woman With A Tongue is More Dangerous Than Women With Guns! What’s my crime? I ask. Having a Tongue that is meant to be an appendage,...

JUST FOR YOU, SIMONE 1. What have you done to me, Simone? I was walking along perfectly steady on that path where goddess-worthy ‘Purity’...

Forgetting For the history exam everything I would learn by heart, but would always forget the dates. I forget now almost everything but...

Approaching the Organised Harem of the Octopus We are approaching the organised harem of the octopus I am the seal bearing the image of...

Female of the Species Sometimes you want to talk about love and despair and the ungratefulness of children A man is no use whatever then....

“If a creative writer is Devki, then a translator is Yashoda,” quips Malhotra. In 'Ek Maa Ki Prarthana,' I liked her conceit of praying...

Mother Tongue As ants return to their nests, a woodpecker returns to the wood, and the airplanes return to the airport one after another...