Gandhi: “My Life is My Message”
Gandhi was a Sufi and a Yogi, a liberator and a martyr for whom India was the karma bhoomi.
Let’s count them words!
Different poets might use slightly different distribution of words and word clouds are typically used to convey information about the distribution of words in some specific context. The more a word is used, the bigger it is on the cloud. So, let us make these word clouds for some prominent poets and see if they convey some insight into their commonalities and distinctiveness.
Zafar Iqbal: The canon maker of modern Urdu ghazal
Ye Tamasha Ab Sar-e-Bazaar Hona Chahiye
Zafar Iqbal’s poetry contains an element of protest. Here are some couplets of Zafar Iqbal that will surely awaken your conscience.
Ishqnaama: The love-life of Momin Khan Momin
Tumhein Yaad ho ke na yaad ho
Momin lived to love and loved to live but he could not have luck with any of his beloveds.
Five Never-Heard-Before Couplets of Ahmad Faraz
Here are five couplets of Faraz that you may not have heard or read before.
Ada Jafarey
The poet, the woman, the mother
Ada Jafarey has had many distinctions: she was one of the first female voices of substance in Urdu poetry; she was refreshingly modernist, and above all entirely inimitable.
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