अगरचे ये शाइरी क्लासिकी उर्दू शाइरी के रिवायती साँचे से बहुत मेल खाती हुई नज़र नहीं आती, लेकिन ये हम-अस्र इंसानी तज्रबात और नफ़्सियात की गहरी तहों को खंगालने में रिवायत और जिद्दत के हर टूल के सहारे से अपना काम करती है। उनकी ग़ज़ल महज़ तख़लीक़ी सलाहियतों के इज़हार का अमल नहीं बल्कि किसी नादीदा-ओ-नायाब नुक्ते की तलाश, समाजी हक़ीक़तों के बयान और इंसानी वुजूद की पेचीदा तहों को बे-नक़ाब करने का ज़रीआ है।
Majrooh Sultanpuri was one such poet who drew upon both and blended them together with distinction. He was a classicist in style and a romanticist in disposition. In addition, he was a humanist — a humanist at core.
Quli Qutub Shah loved his flora and fauna, his people, and himself; he adored his romantic icons and eulogised them in his poetry.
A woman of substance, courage and resilience, she is an ideal example of how a woman may play different roles all through her life. She once expressed that life gave her the material for poetry in all its variety as a mother, observer, traveller and learner.
Shankara consumed poison to save humanity as Manto did to salvage life from its ugliness and literature from its sweet sermons. Manto was indeed the Neelkanth of Urdu fiction.
Kaun jaaye Zauq par Dilli ki galiyaan chod kar
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