She also held a PhD and master degree in Bank Administration.īefore joining the civil service she was professor at Karachi University and trinity college USA for nine years. She was highly educated with two masters degrees, one is English linguistics and other in English literature. Perveen Shakir was born on 24th November, 1952 in Karachi. The majority quote only lyrics, and the quotations, usually chosen at random, do not illustrate poetry. Most of them have the names in alphabetical order, but one or two prefer historical order. The best tazkiras give biographical details, but fail in literary criticism, and we get little idea of style or poetical power, still less of contents of poems.Įven the large anthologies do not systematically review an author's work. On the other hand it may be the history of Urdu poetry with copious illustrative extracts. This is often a mere collection of names with a line or two of information about each poet, followed by specimen of his composition.
Mushairas (or poetic expositions) are today held in metropolitan areas worldwide. Following the Partition of India in 1947, it found major poets and scholars residing primarily in modern Pakistan. The tradition is centered in the subcontinent.
Meer, Dard, Ghalib, Anis, Dabeer, Iqbal, Zauq, Josh, Jigar, Faiz, Firaq and Faraz are among the greatest poets of Urdu. Literary figures as far back as Amir Khusro and Kabir inspired later Urdu poets, and served as intellectual and linguistic sources. Like other languages, the history of Urdu poetry shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix. Hindi shairi is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different forms which were basically originated from Arabic and borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of the cultures of Pakistan and India.
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