Tag: Shahryar

By Mohammed Shafeeq, Book: Shahryar: A Life in Poetry; Author: Rakhshanda Jalil; Publisher: HarperCollins; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 226 Shahryar (1936-2012) was arguably one of the best Urdu poets in the post-Independence era. Emerging as a poet in the 1960s, when progressiveness was drawing to a close and modernism was sweeping the literary scene, he carved a niche for himself even as he refrained from identifying with either of the two groups. In this biography, writer, critic and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil has brilliantly captured different aspects of Shahryar's life, his works...