Progressive · 1911–1984
The leading progressive Urdu poet of the twentieth century, whose verse fused romance with revolution.
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Modern Urdu ghazal master whose romantic and resistance poetry made him one of the most quoted poets of his age.
Read moreProgressive · 1921–1980
Progressive poet whose bitter romanticism and social conscience reshaped both the nazm and the Hindi film song.
Read moreProgressive · 1919–2002
Progressive poet of Mijwan who carried the struggle of the dispossessed into ghazal, nazm and film.
Read moreProgressive · 1928–1993
The people's poet of Pakistan, whose defiant verses against dictatorship were chanted in the streets.
Read moreProgressive · 1914–1976
Progressive poet of Gwalior and Bombay, lyricist and anthologist of the ghazal's gentler music.
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Fearless feminist poet and translator who wrote the female body and political dissent into modern Urdu.
Read moreProgressive · 1911–1955
The romantic-revolutionary of the Progressive movement — “the Keats of Urdu”.
Read moreProgressive · 1905–1948
The romantic poet of youth and longing, who sang of Salma and an idealised beloved.
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